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As beautiful as the sentences that come out of the brains of people like Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, or William Faulkner are, they are definitely of a different generation of thinkers than you students. You love their work, but you can’t really relate, on a tangible level, to what they say. Right? Or was the first time you read Ulysses the moment when you recognized your own soul inside the fictional framework of a literary character? Yeah right. Gimme a break.

I love Joyce as much as anyone else does. Heck, I’ll take your Joyce, and I’ll raise you a Samuel Beckett. I adore tough modernist literature as much as the next dude, but I’ll admit that I (a twenty-something former English major — I’m not that much older than you, dear student, even though in your eyes I might be ancient) have trouble relating to Estragon on a personal level. We speak a different language now. We are stuck in a post-modern fugue, and the entire landscape of literature has changed.

Luckily, there are many writers that consistently produce masterpiece-level literature and write through a modern lense. These writers talk about things like television, anti-depressants, and the Internet. Finally, someone who speaks our language! While we may not read them (yet) as a part of the canon of literature, these hip writers will one day be the Ezra Pounds of our generation. They are people that you should know and read, and here are 5 of our favorites:

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How do you win a scholarship? Perhaps the easiest way if you have an essay is to enter the eduify.com Wunderkind Scholarship contest. Beyond doing what you can to get the most votes for the essay you submit to the eduify scholarship contest, you can also win other scholarships by taking the application process seriously. Put your best effort into winning a scholarship and you raise your chances significantly. Don’t send generic, canned scholarship applications out. Scholarship admissions committees can tell when an applicant is half-heartedly applying or not taking the application process seriously enough, so why risk losing a scholarship for lack of effort?

How do you take the scholarship application seriously? We’ve already shown you how to write a stellar scholarship essay. Now, we’ll show you how to put together a great scholarship package.

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There’s no doubt about it: scholarship essays are a tricky matter to approach. Scholarship competitions often arrive at your doorstep during the last half of the school year, by far the most hectic time in the academic year when students are already bogged down with extracurriculars, final exams, looming end-of-year grades, not to mention stress-inducing standardized tests. More often than not, high-schoolers focus on their “real schoolwork” and procrastinate on the “optional schoolwork” of scholarship applications, to the point where they end up scrambling, up to the final hours, to turn in shoddy, half-hearted applications, essays, and personal statements to a host of scholarship competitions they actually would have had a good chance of winning, had they simply believed in themselves more and taken more time to do a job well done. Read the rest of this entry »

Aristotle is famous for saying —among many other things—that humans are “social animals.” Social relationships, which include professional relationships, are the foundation of our society; without them, we could not survive. Throughout your life—both in and out of school—you’re going to meet a lot of people. You will learn from many of these people and you will teach others. Such is the give-and-take nature of human relationships. When you’re young, you tend to be more on the receiving end of these relationships, and that is exactly what this blog post is about: how to take advantage (in a good way) of your relationships. Eduify has prepared this list of five types of people who can become great mentors for you and, in both the short and the long-term, help you meet your academic and professional goals.

Mentors, on a basic level, are people from whom we learn something that will be valuable to us in the future. Mentors are generally older than we are and have more experience than we do. Thus, the range of people who can potentially be our mentors and the range of things they can teach us are extremely broad. In addition to professing their expert knowledge to us and teaching us valuable life skills, mentors also make great references and they’re great people to approach when you need a letter of recommendation for your college applications. Such recommendations will help you to stand out from all the other graduating seniors when you’re applying for college, which will only help your chances of getting in to the college of your choice. Read the rest of this entry »

What are 4 things to do on your college visit and 3 things to avoid doing? Read our tips after the jump! Read the rest of this entry »