News: Talk About Just Being a Number....

Hate to interrupt your summer fun, but at the risk of making this a news-heavy week, there's a couple other news stories that are worth a quick look.

First, from the New York Times, is an article on the latest fad on the college fair circuit--bar code scanners! Now, instead of being an actual "human being" at the fair--which would require shaking hands with admissions personnel and filling out forms with your address and all--you can just swipe your bar code in front of your intended alma mater's scanner. No messy human interaction required!

From the article:

“I thought that at first, in terms of what it might look like,” [Andrew Meyers, Admissions Director at Michigan-based Hope College] said. “You’d expect students to be indiscriminate. But they really weren’t.”

So if you were at the fair, kudos for not signing up on every random school's mailing list. Although I'd have to image that the temptation to scan yourself everywhere is pretty powerful.

Check it out here.

Second, another college admissions consultant has a top-things-to-do-instead-of-having-fun-this-summer list up. Nothing earth shattering here (test prep... really? Thank god for experts!), but I'm pimping her list because I like #4.

Check it out.

That's all for now.... now get back to having fun! ----CJ