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I Passed Five Rounds at a Big Tech Company. Then They Saw My Community College Transcript.
Five Rounds, Then an Associate’s Degree Maya Ruiz stands by the window of a Seattle apartment she has not finished unpacking. The rain is thin and persistent. It does not care. Her phone is warm against her ear. The HR voice on the other end is polite, almost pained.
By Jinabout a month ago in Education
When a Classroom Becomes a Future: Andreas Szakacs and a Journey to Understand Education in Somalia
A classroom can look like an ordinary place. A few desks. A blackboard. Books stacked in a corner. Students sitting together, waiting for a lesson to begin.
By Andreas szakacsabout a month ago in Education
Andreas Szakacs Travels to Somalia to Tell the Stories of Children Fighting for an Education
Andreas Szakacs Travels to Somalia to Tell the Stories of Children Fighting for an Education A documentary journey exploring education, resilience, and the dreams of children growing up against extraordinary challenges.
By Andreas szakacsabout a month ago in Education
Reflexivity: The Qualitative Researcher’s Best Armour Against AI
I have been lucky to be very busy this summer. My work as a proofreader took off and I had the privilege of reading a number of PhDs. Even better, I got paid for it. This work keeps me in the loop of social research, and it makes me read outside of my areas of interest and expertise. I learn things and see how different disciplines work.
By Rachel Robbinsabout a month ago in Education
You Don’t Have a Research Gap. You Have a Reading Problem.
The lab meeting was over. Your advisor’s last question still hung in the air like a tack you hadn’t quite pulled out of the chair. You had indeed read them. You could even recite the abstract of that Nature paper from memory. But when you tried to distill from all that reading a single thing you could actually do, your mind went blank.
By Jinabout a month ago in Education
Your University Is Stuck in 2022. You Don't Have to Be.
Andrew Ng says some universities are stuck in 2022. The professors in the audience didn’t laugh. They knew what he meant. ChatGPT was released at the end of 2022. Since then, AI has iterated every six months. A university course takes three years from proposal to classroom.
By Jinabout a month ago in Education
The 500,000th Postdoc Just Outnumbered the Mules.
China's Postdoctoral Enrollment Passes 500,000 In late August 2026, the serial number ticked past 500,000. I looked up my own – 299544. That puts me somewhere around the cumulative 300,000 mark. From my number to this one, there are 200,000 people who came after.
By Jinabout a month ago in Education
Dyspraxia, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia
Dyspraxia, Dislexia, and Discalculia: I have all three. Dyspraxia is a spacial disability that makes it hard to tell where you are within a given space. I accidentally run into the sides of walls a lot because I cannot tell where the true ending of the door space is. I am also terrible at platform games and have a funny time playing them, but of course still enjoy. This causes me to be naturally worse at balance than other people so I practice balance every week with a balance board.
By Seashell Harpspring 2 months ago in Education
The Uncredentialed Professor
Prologue In the summer of 2023, Xiong Yuno, twenty years old, signed an associate‑professor contract at Hubei Polytechnic University.
By Jin2 months ago in Education
The Gap Between "Good Enough English" and Actually Understanding Anyone. AI-Generated.
My IELTS certificate said 6.5. Above what my course required, comfortably above what most of the visa checklists online seemed to care about. I remember screenshotting the result and feeling, for about a week, like the hardest part of moving to Australia was already behind me.
By Shoumya Chowdhury2 months ago in Education
Elizabeth of York: The Woman Who United Two Dynasties
Elizabeth of York was born on February 11, 1466, at Westminster Palace. She was the eldest daughter of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville, placing her at the heart of the powerful House of York during one of the most turbulent periods in English history. Her childhood unfolded against the backdrop of the Wars of the Roses, the decades-long struggle between the Houses of York and Lancaster for control of the English throne.
By Lily Ann2 months ago in Education
The 5:53 AM Gamble: Why College Students Pay to Work
I At 5:53 on Friday morning, Luo Wei's alarm went off. At 6:10, she left the dorm with two laptops on her back. One was silver, with the company's asset tag stuck on it; the other was black, with a chipped corner on the screen. From her dorm in Xianlin, Nanjing, to Nanjing Railway Station—walking plus subway—she had only twenty minutes. The high-speed train left at 6:30 for Suzhou and arrived at 7:55. If she was lucky enough to get a cab, she went straight to the office; if not, she squeezed onto the subway and then switched to a taxi. By nine o'clock, the time clock at her desk had to scan her face.
By Jin2 months ago in Education