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The Huntsman Program at Wharton and Penn

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Action Days

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
action_days Can’t bring yourself to start the Common App? Putting off asking your boss for a letter of recommendation to business school? Stever Robbins, The Get-It-Done Guy, can help! Sign up for one–or more–of Stever’s Action Days. Do it right now, because Stever is offering this free service on several upcoming days. I did it and loved it! (more…)

Math Call to 911

Monday, October 12th, 2009


If you need help with math, don’t call 911. Contact Athena Mentor today! We can laugh at math problems together!

The U.S. Consulate in Munich was first to facebook

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

The U.S. Consulate in Munich was first to facebook–and set up a Twitter station at today’s Fourth of July party. You rock, Consul General Nelson!

Diploma Latin

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

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It means, “I don’t understand this, either.” Christopher A. Francese speaks out about Diploma Latin in the nytimesonline. I do recall quite clearly the commencement ceremony at which Howard Swearer, fifteenth president of Brown University, then recently arrived from a certain college in the Midwest where Latin is optional, read his commission out of a hat. Yes, he took off his velvet hat and stared into it, intoning painfully, “Auctoritate mihi commissa . . .”

Will you survive college application stress?

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Ack! It’s August, and already you are asking, “Will this semester never end?” TOEFL, SAT, SAT2s, ACT, essays–Why? Why? Why? Isabel has the answer.