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)
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://newcdn.flamehaus.com/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf
T-Shaped Individuals & IDEO
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
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
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…
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
Misnomer (a definition…. Oh, and a dance company)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misnomer
Anathema (a definition…. Oh, and a rock band)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anathema
Multitasking Myths
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/10/182861382/the-myth-of-multitasking
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/04/its-not-just-rude-its-ruining-your-brain
Lou Malnati’s Pizza
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