Stanford University

enrolled in prestigious schools in Africa and Canada. He earned two bachelor degrees at University of Pennsylvania and just as he enrolled into Stanford University, he was met with the internet boom. His biography states, “After leaving Penn, Elon Musk headed to Stanford University in California to pursue a Ph.D in energy physics. However, his move was timed perfectly with the Internet boom, and he dropped out of Stanford after just two days to become a part of it, launching his first company,…

Today, most students will grumble and whine about the costliness of college, but their complaints are completely justifiable. Over the past decade, tuition fees have risen over 80 percent, and that isn’t all. College textbooks have also become more expensive, increasing over 79 percent in a matter of a decade (Kurtzleben, 2013). With the cost of college slowly increasing, how is the average student expected to pay for college without using more loans than needed? The solution is to lower tuition…

Connecting “The Stanford Prison Experiment” to Lord of the Flies “but look out the evil is in us all” (Goulding 208) stated William Golding in his novel Lord of the Flies. This quote implies that even the best us have the ability to do great evil. Dropping questions such as, how much of your “good conduct” is dependant on someone watching you? Are we more a product of our environment (Nurture) or DNA (Nature). Lord of the Flies and The Stanford Prison Experiment illustrate that when left…

With the growing body of research within the positive psychology field, there have been multiple paths to greater personal happiness identified. Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Jennifer Aaker, suggests that engaging in a rewarding activity- particularly one that involves doing something nice for someone else creates a pleasurable ‘helper’s high’ which benefits the giver. Aaker and her…

In 1970s, the successful admission rate at Stanford University was nearly 22.4% but today, this stands at 5.7%. With digits of students applying to elite colleges is exploding, having better test scores than ever. It’s never been harder. Asian-American students are facing an extra source of stress in responding to the application question asking for race and ethnicity. There is a general perception that Asians are at a disadvantage in the college admissions process. Asian students going through…

known as a psychologist and a professor at Stanford University as well as the founder and president of the Heroic Imagination Project. He graduated summa cum laude from Brooklyn College with a triple major in psychology, sociology, and anthropology in 1954. Then he attended Yale University where he received his Master’s degree and Doctorate in psychology. He is married to Christina Maslach, who is most responsible for voicing her opposition to the Stanford Prison Experiment after she saw what…

everything in life, you have to have the desire to win. The best college football teams seem to also have a high academic standard. Every Coach has their own set of standards and expectations on how their athletes should perform academically. Stanford University is known not only for their great football team, but also for their academic standards. The team executes in both subjects, and brings the win home. Players are expected to put the same amount of work into school as they do on the…

small school with only two teachers. Soon after enrolling at the University of British Columbia he became interested in psychology. This interest that formed in psychology was actually an accident. He was working at night and commuting to school with a group of people, he soon found himself arriving at school much earlier than what his courses started. After graduating in three years he went on to graduate school at the University of Iowa. For other psychologists such as, Clark Hull, Kenneth…

have an opposing effect. Clifford Nass, a professor at Stanford University states“Music with lyrics is very likely to have a problematic effect when you’re writing or reading.” I believe this to be true, though I do like to listen to music in class it is very hard to focus on music and reading or your music and your teacher lecturing the class on your next assignment. Glenn Schellenberg a professor in the psychology department at the University of Toronto, published a study that indicates fast…

move on to a university where they have to pay. In the article “As He Promotes It, Some Question Obama’s Free Community College Idea” by Joanne Jacobs published in February 23, 2015, Jacob explains the idea of several resources and they all have different opinions but what I agree with is that of the ones that are against it. At the time that article was written I was in my second semester of my junior year thus I really didn’t care much, but now that I am going to a university next…