The 1970s, fewer than 25% of US residents lived in counties in which the presidential candidate won by landslide. 30 years later, that percentage has nearly doubled.
Someone else's success is not your failure.
Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit.
No student should be encouraged -- by anyone -- to change himself until he's normal, a term that says everything and means nothing.
What made Einstein special was his impertinence, his nonconformity, and his distaste for dogma. Einstein’s genius reminds us that a society’s competitive advantage comes not from teaching the multipli...
In the midst of a crowd, an individual's layers of restraint peel away, revealing potentially barbaric instincts and a susceptibility to a crowd contagion.
Straight white males need supportive communities, too.
If schools celebrated student scientists the same way they celebrate student athletes, more students would be encouraged to pursue the subject. Instead, science is considered nerdy because schools hel...
Wish I could start a revolution for ER nurses specifically; we are the rock stars of nursing, but are treated like the red-headed bastard stepchild. —a North Carolina ER nurse
Molly had heard that some staff nurses treated agency nurses poorly, but she was surprised now that it was happening to her. If the agency nurses weren’t there, the staff nurses would have a much high...
Exclusion is common behavior. But that doesn’t make it unchangeable. And that doesn’t mean that anything is wrong with the cafeteria fringe.
In Ray's work, most black fraternity men, compared to white fraternity men and black men who were not in fraternities, were observed treating women respectfully. Researchers also observed them speakin...
In 1984, when the legal drinking age was raised to 21, underage students moved their partying from bars to private houses, which changed the Greek experience profoundly. Now fraternities had dispropor...
A St. Louis oncology nurse quoted Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl to States News Service in 2012: ‘What is to give light must endure burning.’ I think people who care for others und...
Part of the problem is that people at our school don't listen. They just put on the headphones and tune out the world. It's intimidating.
How could he encapsulate in a pithy admissions-interview line all of his unique ideas and interests?
But how do you police friends who do not want to be policed? Already, Jake could sense the dynamics changing among his high school friends. Last week, his classmates had partied out of control.
The cafeteria made him feel like an observer rather than a participant in the high school experience.
And when they are out in public, we are secretly looking at people's arms to determine where we would start an IV, an Arizona nurse said. Sometimes if I'm out with a group of nurses, we're like, 'Wow,...
Nobody’s listening to me, he thought, story of my life.
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