The “Look It Ups”

Hey Look!  Here Are All the ‘Look it Ups!’

Throughout the book, I peppered you with opportunities (commands?) to ‘Look It Up!’  The intent is to help wean you off any leanings you may have toward passivity.  Although you’re entering that time in your life when you need to take control of your own development and LOOK STUFF UP ON YOUR OWN, I’m not going to leave you hanging entirely.

Of course, you know the web is ever changing and as fickle as a first year college student (Wow! That may have sounded insulting).  So, although these links were good and accurate at the time of printing, they may not be by the time you’re reading.  So, let me know if you find some bad ones.  At least you’ll have the general categories and you can LOOK THEM UP!

More important, this collection of resources should simply be a springboard to vault you further.  If you encounter something you don’t understand, look it up.  If you’re curious and intrigued by something, explore it in depth.  Enough passivity already! (Especially if you’re reading this in the summer with plenty of time on your hands.)  Become an active, life-long learner and do your own research, damn it!

Joseph Campbell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell

http://www.jcf.org/new/index.php?categoryid=11

http://billmoyers.com/spotlight/download-joseph-campbell-and-the-power-of-myth-audio/

Expanding College Options & Alternatives (Online & Otherwise)

https://www.edx.org/

https://www.coursera.org/

http://www.khanacademy.org/

http://semesteronline.org/

http://oli.cmu.edu/

http://www.uncollege.org/

http://www.thielfellowship.org/

Oh, here’s another alternative… The Minerva Project

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/05/minerva-project-plans-different-kind-online-education

http://www.minervaproject.com/

And, you oughta look up MOOCs, here’s help from Stephen Colbert

http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/07/26/colbert-report-explains-moocs

What’s a docent?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_docent

The famous Stanford marshmallow experiment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment

Pavlov’s Dogs

http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/pavlov/readmore.html

Airplane – Don’t call me Shirley!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixljWVyPby0

Field of Dreams – “People will come…”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SB16il97yw

Publish or Perish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish_or_perish

VALVE Company & Handbook

http://www.valvesoftware.com/

http://newcdn.flamehaus.com/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf

T-Shaped Individuals & IDEO

http://chiefexecutive.net/ideo-ceo-tim-brown-t-shaped-stars-the-backbone-of-ideoae™s-collaborative-culture

http://www.ideo.com/

Rocky Mountain Oysters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_oysters

Jersey Shore

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore_(TV_series)

Henry Higgins “Rain in Spain”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVmU3iANbgk

Cleaning Your Room (A less-than-helpful link. Find your own damn link!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLF_2udvrQ0

Choosing Civility (Dr. P.M. Forni & The Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins)

http://krieger.jhu.edu/civility

And, here’s some more etiquette tips for when you’re late to class

http://www.usatodayeducate.com/staging/index.php/campuslife/5-etiquette-tips-for-when-youre-late-to-class

This is Water (David Foster Wallace video & commencement speech)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbcvWFrglg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI

Fake Bake

http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/skin/basic_info/indoor_tanning.htm

Blue Campus Security Lights (A little outdated)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M536H1QUN2I

Campus Safe Cell Phone App

http://campussafeapp.com/

College Presidents Rethink Drinking Age

http://www.theamethystinitiative.org/

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93749553

Your Sex Options

At the writing of this book, there was a thought-provoking article by Kate Taylor in which the author explored campus sexual relationships through in-depth interviews at Penn University.  It’s called “Sex on Campus:  She Can Play That Game, Too.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/fashion/sex-on-campus-she-can-play-that-game-too.html

The response to her article was quick and loud, as well…

http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/sex-on-campus-writer-responds-to-questions-and-complaints/?src=recg

And the conversation continues with “Love in the Time of Hookups”  and more here:

http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/18/love-in-the-time-of-hookups/?src=recg

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/29/changing-hook-culture-conversation-college-campuses

Cleary Center for Security on Campus

http://clerycenter.org/parents-and-students

National Sexual Violence Resource Center

http://www.nsvrc.org/

Misnomer (a definition…. Oh, and a dance company)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misnomer

http://www.misnomer.org/

Anathema (a definition…. Oh, and a rock band)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anathema

http://www.anathema.ws/

Multitasking Myths

http://www.npr.org/2013/05/10/182861382/the-myth-of-multitasking

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/study-if-you-multitask-often-youre-impulsive-and-bad-at-multitasking/272485/

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/04/its-not-just-rude-its-ruining-your-brain

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/living-faster/split-focus/multitasking-at-mit.html

Lou Malnati’s Pizza

http://www.loumalnatis.com/

The Odyssey by Homer

http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.html

A Different Homer’s Odyssey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer’s_Odyssey_(The_Simpsons)

Zeitgeist (A definition)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zeitgeist

Considering Liberal Arts & Humanities

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/opinion/sunday/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-english-major.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/opinion/the-humanities-in-crisis-not-at-most-schools.html?src=recpb&_r=0

Demitrio ‘Drumzoo’

http://www.youtube.com/user/Drumzoo