College Education Time

While most test-takers know what to expect on the GMAT exam itself, many arrive on test day not knowing what to expect from the actual test center. If you can do a dry run, such as Kaplans Official Test Day Experience (offered to students taking our courses), thats certainly going to help tremendously with your comfort level on what to expect fortest day. However, everyone should know what will happen at the Pearson Center before and after their exam. So lets run through some of the logistics for the big day.

First, make sure to arrive at the test center early. If you show up late, you may not be allowed to take your test. Additionally, if you arrive early you will often be allowed to start your test upon arrival. Therefore, it is recommended that you arrive thirty minutes before your scheduled start time.

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Super Bowl week is upon us — or Super Bowl weeks, rather. Little drums up apathy quite like the two weeks between conference championship weekend and Super Bowl Sunday, but I digress. A week in Indianapolis is enough, right? This year’s Super Bowl, as you may know, pits the Giants and Patriots in a rematch of Super Bowl XLII — 42, in layman’s terms. One thing that always interests me heading into every Super Bowl, outside of the game itself, is looking how each roster is built: whether through free agency or the draft, with early picks or late-round steals, with a high-powered offense or stingy defense. Also, where did the players, the 106-plus guys getting ready for the Super Bowl, go to college?

Tennessee and Texas were the most-represented colleges at last year’s Super Bowl, between the Packers and Steelers, with five players apiece.

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It appears to be an empty frame, but it is filled with futuristic possibilities for the computer user with just the touch of a finger.

Created by researchers at the Interface Ecology Lab (IEL) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, ZeroTouch is a virtual in-the-air touchpad computer interface that allows users to literally draw pictures in midair. The technology also allows the user to convert any conventional display, such as big-screen TVs, into an affordable touchscreen panel, opening a world of possibilities for precision gaming, designing and other experiences that rely on touch technology.

“ZeroTouch is an input device, a multifinger sensor,” says Jon Moeller, a graduate student and ZeroTouch co-designer. “It is basically a thin plane of interaction built with a linear array of infrared-sensing component.

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If you are an Apple fanatic like me, then you have probably heard that the company is holding a media event on Thursday, January 19, 2012. What is Apple releasing this time? According to ArsTechnica.com, the company will be announcing a new platform that will be the GarageBand for e-books. Basically, it will be a distribution platform for digital books and textbooks.

Although some makers of e-books claim that the process of making an e-book from a physical copy of a book is very simple, the truth is that the entire process can be very difficult and frustrating. This could all be changing very soon, if Apple does in fact announce a GarageBand for e-books software later this week.

Matt MacInnis worked for Apple until 2009, when he left the company and started his own company, Inkling, which creates digital textbooks.

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Anthony Raffa scored 13 points for Coastal Carolina in an 88-81 loss to UNC-Asheville on Tuesday. He also had three steals, two rebounds and one assist.

DeShon Minnis started for Texas Tech but was held scoreless in a 64-55 loss to Oklahoma.