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I think no matter how old you get to be, everyone remembers acutely the absolute, total, and paralyzing embarrassment of their teenage years. I’m not talking about actual embarrassing things that happen to us during those years (though admittedly there are many), but rather the ever-present sense that every situation – both real and imagined – would embarrass us in some way and eventually we’d simply die from it. (And if you think the memory of this goes away when you’re an adult, just wait until the invitation arrives to your 20 year high school reunion. Wherever you’ve hidden it all, I promise you it will show back up.)

But the thing about teenage embarrassment that we (hopefully!) comprehend when we reach adulthood and have all of our necessary coping mechanisms in place, is that it’s much more perceived than it is real. It’s a sense of embarrassment more than actual humiliation. Read More

It is easy for college applicants and their parents to get caught up in the fear, frustration, and frenzy of the admission experience. Those of us who counsel families through this journey have the benefit of having watched hundreds and thousands of students and their parents as they fumble, fixate and flourish. This breadth of experience, and what we have come to know, can be valuable to current families. 

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Tyler Luker of Plano, Texas, is a high school junior who already knows which college he wants to attend (University of Missouri), how much it costs ($43,300 for out-of-state residents) and how much he can expect his single mother to contribute: nothing.

“That’s protecting my retirement,” says certified financial planner Sharon Luker, 64. “I don’t want to work when I’m 70.” Read More

What do Purdue University, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and University of Kansas all have in common? Great Division I Men’s basketball, right? Yes, but besides that.

True, they are all large, public research institutions with great school spirit and a variety of strong academic programs, but there is something else they all have in common.

In fact, they are among the Top 10 of the U.S. News and World Report’s list of universities where TAs (graduate teaching assistants) teach the most classes as the primary instructor. According to 2015 U.S. News data, at each of these schools “at least 18 percent of graduate teaching assistants taught courses in fall 2015.” Read More

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