Archive for November, 2007

MIT Open Courseware

Sunday, November 25th, 2007


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MIT offers many of its course contents online for free download and access. The project was launched in 2002 with 50 courses and currently free online course materials are available for approximately 1700 courses.


Linear Algebra, Circuits and Electronics, Electricity and Magnetism, Differential Equations and Introduction to Biology are among the most popular courses. Even translated material is available in Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Spanish and Portuguese.


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Today is Black Friday

Friday, November 23rd, 2007


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Today is Black Friday. Contrary to what it sounds, it is actually a good occasion! In USA, the Friday after Thanksgiving is celebrated as Black Friday. On the day retailers offer one of the best shopping deals.


How is that relevant to our readers? Well, students are always on a tight budget. Usually the students who are new in US miss out on this great sale because they do not know about it. We hope some of our readers can save some money if they are aware about the Black Friday sale.


A reletively recent shopping phenomenon is Cyber Monday. On this day most businesses offer amazing online deals. As a student, it may be the time to buy a laptop or other electronic items you have been thinking about.


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Low GRE AWA scores

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007


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Many students post questions on our forum about their low AWA scores. GRE General Test score is one of many criteria for admission and do not make your break our application. Among the three sections of GRE AWA is of least significance.


Most Universities do not have a minimum AWA cut off. Do not worry if you get a low AWA score. If you got 2.5 or more you are ok.


If you got less than 2.5 and you really think you did well on AWA, there is a process to challenge the score. (AWA only). It costs $55 for the computer bases test. For the details on the AWA score review process click here .


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United States Education Foundation

Saturday, November 10th, 2007


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What is common between Hailey Road New Delhi and Prince Edward Road Singapore? These roads are better known for famous education landmark USEFI / USEIC.


The USEFI in India has offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. These centers offer quality advice on US Education, University selection, even Visa preparation help.


If you live in one of these cities or any other city in the world which has a US Education facility, try to visit there and check out. Check the website of the US Embassy in your country to find out if they offer any special educational help or information session.


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University of California loses lawsuit

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007


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An appeals court has upheld a ruling that the University of California owes $33.8 million to past students whose fees were unfairly raised. The three-judge, San Francisco-based court ruled unanimously on November 2 that UC broke promises to about 35,000 graduate and undergraduate students - mostly at UC-Berkeley and UCLA - in 2003.


Click here to read the full story by Matt Krupnick


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