On our last night in the sorority so many years ago, our alums gave us some great life advice…if we nurtured the relationships we made during our college days, we would find these same women standing next to us at our weddings or...
17 Career Secrets I Wish I Got On Graduation Day
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What College Women Need to Know
Kiri Blakeley is a long-time Forbes and ForbesWoman writer. She covers entertainment, celebrities, trends, models, and female-oriented stories and is the author of...
Social Life Struggles of a Grad Student
If you're in graduate school, then I'm assuming you're motivated, hardworking, and truly enjoy learning. Grad students don't make it this far because “that's just what you do after high school” (something I frequently heard when I was an...
Shattered Hearts in Sandy Hook And For Us All
I am a teacher. I am a public educator.I have never been so shaken.
I was teaching when I heard that some despicable, disgusting, pathetic excuse for a human being killed 20 students and six faculty members of Sandy Hook...
Getting the Ivy League to Come to You
With the proliferation of internet access and mobile devices, there has been a lot of discussion and movement related to online education. In September I attended the inauguration of the new MIT President Rafael Reif, and one of the...
A Letter to My Colleagues
Hello Friends,
This past week was the start of school in New York, and with the recent footage of the Republican and Democratic conventions, Governor Christie’s deplorable speech, and the fact that...
Get Up Already—You’ve Been Down Long Enough
Growing up I never understood what the word failure meant. I was a top-notch student and never studied a day in my life. School came “naturally” to me. I was an amazing athlete; never once was cut from any team I ever tried out...
A Letter to the Class of 2016
To the Class of 2016,
As the start of the school year rapidly approaches in New York, I've found myself thinking of my most recent graduates. Like any good teacher, I worry and I hope. I worry that...
The Noble Sauna
I, among many things, am a teacher. I teach English and theatre to “at –risk” high school students. When I say “at-risk”, I mean that they are at risk of dropping out of high school, and this alternative program is basically their last...
The Road Less Traveled: Grin And Bear It
Continued from Refreshed, Relaxed, Now What?
The first time a student called me “professor” I felt like a bit of...