Found this great article over on Tumblr of all places. Hits on about every point I have thought about recently when it comes to grad school.

A little bit of powerpoint fun for those of us in need of humor.

I am extremely fond of using Twitter to network with others in my potential field and in the job place. I recommend for any grad school student to setup a personal blog over on WordPress.com as well as setting up a twitter account.

Create a strong blog, and utilize twitter to share in the conversations already present about the topics you are passionate about.

Find people who are interested in the topics you are passionate about by utilizing Twitters built in search technology.

I stumbled on a great new website for students. It is called College Crunch. While not really aimed at Grad School students it appears this site is going to be a great resource for original content aimed at college students of all kinds.

With great tips on degrees,lifestyle, and technology I really look forward this to being one of those sites I visit on a daily basis.

Students taking the Graduate Record Examination and applying to graduate school should expect to face more competition.

Increasing numbers of graduate school applicants have raised standards for graduate schools, making it one of the most difficult times to get accepted.

This year, the University’s Graduate School’s number of students admitted increased by 5 percent, and overall enrollment has increased by 4 percent, said Dean Tsantir , director of admissions for the Graduate School.

As the economy crumbles we can expect a lot more pickiness on behalf of grad schools.

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Here is a list of my top used Web Apps.

Remember the Milk might just be the tool that will keep you on track. And to make things even easier, Remember the Milk also integrates nicely with Google Calendar, so you can manage everything in one place.

Meebo is my most used web app mostly because its a bad habit to flip open a window using Meebo instead of a desktop application. I can have all my messages in one place rather than utilizing various services.

Google Docs is by far the most powerful document creation tools online it makes for easy collaboration in work groups and teams in various classes. This is by far my most used tool for sharing information online.

Grade Guru is a great application that i just started using to share notes, and find out information that I happen to miss in class.

Purdue and Indiana University
have record enrollments and it is largely a reflection of the economic downturn according to many analysts. When the economy takes a turn for the worse many head back to grad school to try to find a better job with a boost in their resumes.

Purdue and Indiana universities both have record enrollments topping 40,000 students on their main campuses, and other schools — both state-supported and private — also are reporting enrollment gains possibly driven by the state’s struggling economy.

Purdue enrollment figures for the fall semester released Wednesday show 40,090 registered students on the West Lafayette campus, up from 39,102 a year ago. A large chunk of the increase — 433 students –came from the graduate school, which now enrolls 7,427 students.

John Story, interim dean of the graduate school, said Purdue’s $333 million in sponsored research funding and the sagging economy might account for the increase.

“Graduate enrollment often mimics the economy,” Story said. “When the economy is good, people don’t go to grad school. When times are tough, going to school is a good option.”

Cheating never pays. Especially on Grad School Entrance Tests.

The publisher of the graduate business school entrance test said Wednesday it has thrown out the scores of 84 prospective students after shutting down a Web site they used to cheat on the exam.

The Graduate Management Admission Council said it had notified 84 people about the cancellation of their scores from the Graduate Management Admission Test. More than 500 scores were tossed, as test-takers could take the GMAT several times, and many of the test-takers sent scores to more than one school.

The council began tracking down users of Scoretop.com after winning $2.35 million in a copyright-infringement lawsuit in June, which allowed the council to shut down the site and seize a computer hard drive containing payment information and users’ identifications.

The council said an investigation of 6,000 scores from 2004 to 2007 found that 12 people posted questions from the exam on Scoretop. Those people will be barred from retaking the test for at least three years.

Over at Lifehacker they have a great list of things that will increase your productivity and I think much of this can be applied to Grad School and information overload. Sometimes you need tips to increase your productivity.

Walk around. Anywhere will do. You can walk around your office. Visit a floor you haven’t been to before. Or maybe you have time to go around the block or visit that park down the street. It’s all about looking for something positive you have never seen. Taking time to smell the roses may be just a cliché, but those roses could be anything. A restaurant you’ve never seen. A friend’s cubicle. Some kids playing ball. Life is going on in the world around you. You just need to notice.
Set an alarm and work on just one thing for that period of time. Maybe it’s just 5, 10 or 20 minutes. Maybe it’s two minutes. But at the end of the time, you will notice what’s it’s like to experience real focus. And if you complete the task, you have something to anchor your day around. You’ve gotten at least one thing really done.
Open up a best-selling business book to a random page and read for five minutes. Let you mind apply whatever your reading to whatever you are working on. There is bound to be inspiration for a great idea or a new way of doing things.
Contact someone you admire. If the internet has done anything, it has flattened the world and enabled us to contact people we respect in many different areas—your business, entertainment, politics or writing. Like an author? Find their web site and drop them an email. Make a list of all the people you want to meet someday and see how many of them you can find on the web. You’d be surprised how many respond.
Send postcards to two friends you know you live out-of-state. It will make you appreciate where you live more than ever.

Rice University continues to become one of the leading schools in the state of Texas. Continually showing growth in leading publications and surveys around the country.

For more information on Texas Schools check out The Best Colleges…

Rice University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management entrepreneurship program has moved up to No. 16 in a national ranking by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.

The Rice program moved up from No. 22 in the 2007 review and is the only Texas graduate entrepreneurship program in the top 25.

“Over the past decade, the Jones School has invested in the rapidly increasing role of entrepreneurship and innovation in driving the U.S. economy,” said Bill Glick, dean of the Jones Graduate School. “This ranking reflects the entrepreneurial spirit at Rice, as well as the entrepreneurial spirit of the local business community in Houston and Texas.”

Chrome is a browser from Google that really has helped me as I work online and go to school. It is so much faster than any other browser that I have ever used that I get a lot more done.Each browser window runs as a separate process so nothing gets all messed up when one website crashes. I still remember the days when entire sites would cause my computer to crash. Can we say Windows ME. Agh, what horrible memories.Google Chrome is the real deal that feels like a serious browser option.