Posts Tagged ‘colleges’

Trendspotting: Modern Matriculation

The early admissions deadline for most colleges looms next week. Can’t you just see all the thousands of diligent high school students dotting their I’s and crossing their T’s, making a surefooted approach to the mailbox to send their application to a future alma mater? If you’re nodding your head, you’re showing your age. Almost [...]


Trendspotting: Handwriting’s on the Facebook Wall

The Yearbook Sign-off? Rampant social media use motivates colleges and high schools to eliminate the yearbook—and the handwritten notes inside Are Facebook and Twitter her taking the place of the school yearbook—that 150-year-old, leather-bound time capsule? The answer is a definitive maybe. With so many tweets and Facebook photos pinging between teens and college students, [...]