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Susie Bright asks: What makes a person change the course of their life? Why bother learning stuff? Social Media Venn diagram As he turns in his dissertation, Cal Newport (of Study Hacks blog fame) reflects on his grad-school experience A thought on the university as “an ethically superior institution” James Fallows is back in the …

Links 25-May-2008

Penelope Trunk has an excellent post on how she got her current favorite mentor, to complement her other posts on the topic. As a forty-odder among twenty-somethings, I find that my mentors are not just the professors, but my peers who have longer experience of being a student, being at SILS, being connected to many other students who …