Posts Tagged ‘University’
Make notes interesting enough to study!
Lectures can be boring, sleepy, or even exciting for many (depending on the subject of interest course). But sometimes coping up with the lecturer’s points and important notes can be a hectic task. For an instance, taking dow...
Sleep Better… Get better Grades in College
The consensus in the field — informed by a large Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey of American teens — is that adolescents need about nine hours and 15 minutes of sleep a night, but most get less. Teens are ...
UAE’s Best Business Ideas Close to Become Reality
The Big Start Season 4 has selected this season’s 25 finalists that will progress to the second round of the competition, run as Al Tamimi Investments core CSR initiative. The search for the best business idea among final yea...
Special Opportunity for Student Filmmakers at the 6th Gulf Film Festival
The Gulf Film Festival (GFF), the home of bold, experimental, and contemporary cinema from the Arabian peninsula, held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Majid Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai C...
The question with a D’lemma – Foundation or A levels
It wasn’t long back (just a year ago), when I was thinking about my University options I literally had a panic attack! All I had in my head was, “What if I don’t get accepted?! What if I don’t get in any...
The Big Start Student Entrepreneur Competition Season 4
One more week is given to all UAE-based final year graduates and post-graduate university/college students, under 30 years of age, to submit their pitches to The Big Start to become CEO of their own business. The Big Start, a C...
Japanese Cultural Club features at AUS Global Day
This year’s Global Day at the American University of Sharjah featured the recently-established Japanese Cultural Club (JCC) for the first time. Club members served the Japanese snack Takoyaki and took pictures of visitors wit...
Collegefeed To Connect Students And Employers
Collegefeed launched this March, offering a social platform for students to connect with each other and employers long before the career fairs and short interviews begin. The service is designed for college kids who do not have...
Life of a journalism student
My life is different from those who are appearing for exams. Unlike a business or a marketing student, the life of a journalism student is loaded with independent writing and research, and what piles up at the end of year are w...
Night Before Exams
Must study….must study…..!!! This is it…. I prayed…really really hard…then I sat on my cozy bed, prepared to study for my forthcoming exams …I just have to start with History first, then Political Science, Geography...
Zayed University Accredited for the UK Matrix Standard Award
The Career Service at Zayed University has been awarded the matrix Standard for information, advice and guidance. This followed an external assessment process undertaken by emqc Ltd, the organisation responsible for the mana...
Our Town: An AUS Poduction
Our Town, the American University of Sharjah Performing Arts Program’s production for this semester, is a play by Thornton Wilder that reflects the life of families in the early 20th century in the small American town of Grov...
College is not a spectator sport!
Going to a college is more than just pulling all-nighters and learning how to make gourmet meals with a microwave. These four (or more) years are about growing as a person, developing your identity and learning other pertinent ...
‘Monsters University’ Teaser Trailer and Posters
Time to brush up on “The Power of Screams”. Teaser trailer and posters unveiled by Disney (viaFandango) for Pixar’s new prequel Monsters University, introduces us yet again to the lovable monsters Mike and ...
Pixar Launches Amazing ‘Monsters University’ Viral College Website
MU! Go MU! This is just plain ole amazing, and this is why I love Pixar. Starting promotion early for next year’s prequel Monsters University, Pixar has just launched a new “viral” site for the movie and t...
Your College Degree Will NOT Get You a Job
What is it about human nature that will not allow us to change the way we think… no matter how wrong we are? Case in point: college students, despite all evidence to the contrary, still believe that once they graduate a diplo...
How to Get Past Post-Graduation Blues?
Well it’s finally got here! No, I’m not talking about “Magic Mike” in the theater – okay… maybe I am. I’m really talking about Graduation! Many college seniors recently walked across that stage to formally commemo...
Living in the Dorms: Complete University Experience
“Be careful okay. Just call if you ever need anything. Message me everyday okay?” these were the words of my mom, followed by necessary tears, before we (My sister and I) went off to go study – and live at the Dorms – a...
The cost of unaccredited education in the UAE
does come at a cost, but what is the value of that cost which ends up being unworthy? While I started writing this feature, I never had the slightest idea that there are universities in Dubai which are unaccredited, and there c...
Living options for Youth Dubai
It is never the same – you are in a different city or country; a different life; different things to catch up with, and a different atmosphere. Among all the changes that a foreign student see when they come to Dubai, it ...
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