User Experience Design is pretty hot now. Every architecture, design and creative professional wants a piece of this pie. But will it work for you?
If you are constantly finding … Read More
User Experience Design: Is that a good career for me?
Six influencers in a high school student’s college decision
High school students are influenced by factors from within and outside during their school years. The six critical external factors that influence a student’s decision making include – … Read More
Five counterintuitive measurements of college program success
The success of a college/ school/course is measured based on criteria that are thrown out as data points in your decision-making. Some measures used to define a program may … Read More
Role of critical thinking in humanities
Logical, analytical & critical thinking, math and numeracy, synthesizing ideas, and problem-solving are the cornerstone of some key humanities courses including economics, linguistics, and sociology. Here are three prime examples to substantiate this thinking – While Linguistics is the scientific … Read More
Fact-based dreamers in science and humanities
Objectivity and rationality are critical components for solving a natural science problem as it is for engineering and core sciences. A quick overview of the two specific streams and how these skills are applied in them – Rationalism and Objectivity … Read More
Data science is an artform
Data has been the domain of science and math majors. Although an objective exercise, the creativity and subjective nature of looking for a needle in a haystack or finding patterns that could be repeatable is an art form. Data has … Read More
Separate wheat (information) from the chaff (data)
Students are bombarded with data (raw facts with no contexts) as opposed to information (organized context with purpose) to help them in their decision process. It is not a good idea to expect students to separate the wheat from the … Read More
What kind of sorcery is AI?
AI is the biggest buzzword of the 21st century. Remember a time when we used to search for photos on our phones by scrolling through hundreds of pictures just to find that one picture of that one person who means … Read More