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...study released earlier this month by researchers at the University of Melbourne showing that personal Internet use at work can help focus workers' concentration and increase productivity. Facebook added that "it's in the hands of students, in consultation with their parents, to define priorities and decide how to spend their time." (Read "25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About You on Facebook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Facebook Users Share: Lower Grades | 4/14/2009 | See Source »

...most accounts, students spend a heck of a lot of time logged onto Facebook, a circumstance that irks educators, who complain of students messaging friends or posting snarky status updates from their laptops instead of paying attention to lectures. It was this habit that first got Karpinski interested in the topic while she was earning her master's degree in developmental psychology at West Virginia University. "When I became a teacher's assistant, I started noticing my students' using [Facebook] and becoming obsessed with it," says Karpinski - who is not on Facebook, despite her fellow classmates' badgering efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Facebook Users Share: Lower Grades | 4/14/2009 | See Source »

...have a statistically significant other? Depends of how we define our alpha significance. If you chill with Summers and Mankiw i'd say so. If you spend a lot of time at HMS, not quite. Ok, I'm kinda seeing someone unofficially...

Author: By Linda M. Lian | Title: Beauty and the Brain | 4/14/2009 | See Source »

...out” framework. All students should have the default option of staying in their dorm rooms from the day after the end of winter recess to the day that marks the start of spring term. Many Harvard students will want (and ought to have the option) to spend their January working on extracurricular activities on campus or at jobs and internships in the Cambridge and Boston areas—two options that would be much less feasible without guaranteed campus housing. Renting an apartment is costly and more difficult for short time periods and would be especially challenging...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Forced Migration | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

This month, high-school seniors across the country are deciding where to spend their next four years, and anyone who fought through the droves of tour groups crowding the yard last Friday knows they’re doing their research. Every college, after all, is different—in fact, too much so, according to educators in some states...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Higher Standards? | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

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