This is a guest article written by Peter Merrick, a Falmouth Student in Cornwall. Peter is my first guest author, and I really appreciate his contribution. Do you live outside of the United States? If so, I’d love to hear about the way your country does education. Reach me through the contact form above.

The Education system in the UK is vastly different from USA. The school leaving age is just 16, and there is no prom or a graduation ceremony. People just leave school

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Grab your responses from part one. Each response awards either 10 points, 5 points, 3 points, or 1 point. Others reward no points at all. This is intentional, because only certain questions were designed to actually target your learning type. Others deal with areas such as which hemisphere of your brain you tend to favor or are just there to make you laugh.

Read Part 1 here.

Here are your results.

TIP: There has been some confusion about how scoring works. …

I love the first week or two of a new fall semester. Binder rings aren’t broken yet, everyone has an A, and furtive glances are replaced with jovial grins. But a few weeks go by, and you feel like an early 20th century assembly line worker – except that you are paying to go to work.

What the hell happens? Where do all the cookies go? Who shuns Chanticlier?!?!?

Every single school year, I tried to find the answer to this. I …

Boredom is a symptom of the unimaginative and the needy. These are the kind of people who never played hide-and-seek because it didn’t come in a box. They watch somebody else paint by numbers, record but never watch the same television shows every day, and spend the better part of most afternoons filling out inane surveys while their parents or grandparents rewash their mildewed clothes for the third time.

I know what you are thinking. “What about people in jail? You know …

I take a break from Shakespeare this afternoon and go to get something to eat at Hardee’s. (That’s a Carl’s Jr. for you Westerners.) I wear a white T-shirt, pajama pants, and a silver engagement ring. I have a carseat in the backseat and I pay entirely with change. I am also clean-shaven, so I look approximately 2-3 years younger. As the window opens and I reach out my change-filled hand, I can already notice the pistons of assumption beginning to fire…

• (As she took my change, pocketing the last 2 cents…) “Well you just barely got it this time! Pretty

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If you are like me, you can’t stand working for somebody else. You also can’t stand trading your time for money. With a little thought and a little effort on your part, you can begin to supplement your income and maybe even eventually be able to quit your job.

First, you have to be honest with yourself.

• What are your skills/talents?
• What interests you?
• How hard are you willing to work?
• How hard are you willing to THINK?
• How

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