The week before someone takes the MBLEx, there’s a certain silence in the hallway of a massage school. Students murmur under their breath the origins of their muscles as they sit on the carpet with highlighted binders spread across their laps. A friend is being tested on the brachial plexus by someone. Another has a color-coded spreadsheet that resembles a NASA mission plan rather than a study schedule. When you watch this, it’s easy to forget that these are the same people who were laughing about how the exam “couldn’t be that bad” weeks ago. DetailInformationExam NameMassage & Bodywork Licensing…
Author: Janine Heller
In the US, the law school entrance exam has an odd reputation. At different stages of the process, students either respect it, dislike it, or quietly acknowledge that they did both. For many years, the LSAT has been the most crucial score on a law school application, sometimes taking precedence over years of undergraduate coursework. Just that disparity reveals something about the perspectives of admissions committees. On paper, the test isn’t very long, but it feels that way. Each of the five 35-minute sections is followed by a writing sample that everyone reads but no one scores. Even though the…
You begin to understand why people argue about colleges in the same way that they argue about football teams if you stroll through Oxford’s downtown on any weekday morning. From his lodge, a porter nods. A gate creaks open to reveal a quadrangle that hasn’t changed much since the seventeenth century. Someone rides by with a flat white in one arm and a gown under the other. In the broadest sense of the word, the university itself is hardly noticeable here. In reality, the colleges are what you see. There are 36 of them, in addition to four permanent private…
Some websites manage to withstand the turbulence of the internet. Not the billion-dollar ones, not the ostentatious ones. the ones that are helpful. Among them is Starfall. You most likely already know the letter B if you have ever been in a classroom or at a kitchen table where a four-year-old is learning it. the backgrounds in yellow. The happy little voice pronouncing consonants. The strange, almost old-fashioned charm of a site that never quite felt the need to modernize itself into oblivion. It began with a particular human issue, as these things frequently do. As a boy, Stephen Schutz…
Like most important government documents, the letter was quietly sent out on a Thursday in February. It was addressed to members of Congress and contained the kind of announcement that often goes unnoticed in the morning news cycle but has a lasting impact on classrooms. The Office of English Language Acquisition, or OELA as it is known to practically everyone who works with it, was to be dissolved, the U.S. Department of Education told lawmakers. 90 days’ notice. Beginning in mid-February, that clock is almost up. DetailInformationOffice NameOffice of English Language Acquisition (OELA)Parent AgencyU.S. Department of EducationYear Established (Current Form)2002,…
The fact that the incoming CEO of Apple used to spend his mornings working out in a chlorinated pool in West Philadelphia, grinding out laps before thermodynamics lectures, seems strangely fitting. In the mid-1990s, John Ternus was just another engineering student at Penn, balancing calculus with varsity swim practice. He would go on to design the hardware found in almost every iPhone you’ve held in the past ten years. It’s the kind of biographical information that seldom appears in corporate press releases, but it reveals a genuine aspect of the man’s training. After enrolling at the University of Pennsylvania, Ternus…
The notice appeared in the mail, nestled between utility bills and grocery flyers, exactly like the kind of envelope that most people put away and forget. Many Avis customers first discovered that their phone numbers, birth dates, credit card numbers, and driver’s license numbers had already been shared in an unseen location. The actual breach occurred quickly; during a four-day period between August 3 and August 6, 2024, an unauthorized party surreptitiously accessed one of Avis’s business applications and took nearly 300,000 people’s personal information. It wasn’t until September 4 that Avis spoke in public. Some of that data had…
The lights on the third floor of a hagwon in Gangnam are still on at almost ten o’clock at night. With a textbook tucked under his arm like a second spine, a boy in a navy uniform leans his forehead against the window of a parked sedan while he waits for his mother. He can’t be older than thirteen. Anyone who has spent time in Seoul, Daegu, or Busan is familiar with the rhythm of scenes like this, which recur every night. Children learn. Parents hold off. The city is buzzing with ambition and caffeine. Country/SubjectSouth Korea – Youth Education…
Even now, over two years after the Dali drifted out of the predawn darkness of the Patapsco River and into one of the piers of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, you are struck by how ordinary that morning started. A vessel departing the port. Asphalt is patched by road workers. One shift is coming to an end, and another is about to begin. Then, in about a minute and a half, the span vanished, six men were killed, and Baltimore was torn apart in a way that hasn’t completely healed. The Dali’s owner and operator, Grace Ocean Private Limited and…
When a parent talks about discovering their child dead on the living room floor, a certain kind of silence descends upon the room. In August of last year, 36-year-old Florida resident Jonathan Gavalas began utilizing Google’s Gemini chatbot for routine tasks like creating shopping lists. He was gone by October, and the chat logs his family later turned over to a federal court in California read more like transcripts of a slow-motion psychological disintegration than conversations with software. Google said on Tuesday that it was updating Gemini’s mental health protections. According to the company, the chatbot will now display a…