http://athena-mentor.com Fri, 09 May 2008 08:40:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 en Crossword puzzles build your vocabulary http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2008/03/10/94/ http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2008/03/10/94/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:41:33 +0000 athena http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2008/03/10/94/

]]> http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2008/03/10/94/feed/ Crossword puzzles build your vocabulary http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2008/03/01/crossword-puzzles-build-your-vocabulary/ http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2008/03/01/crossword-puzzles-build-your-vocabulary/#comments Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:48:55 +0000 athena http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2008/03/01/crossword-puzzles-build-your-vocabulary/ Improve your vocabulary with the RE-ACT puzzle!

Do you love crossword puzzles? Click and play to build your vocabulary!

]]> http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2008/03/01/crossword-puzzles-build-your-vocabulary/feed/ Entrepreneurial Spirit in Germany http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2008/02/07/entrepreneurial-spirit-in-germany/ http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2008/02/07/entrepreneurial-spirit-in-germany/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:04:18 +0000 athena http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2008/02/07/entrepreneurial-spirit-in-germany/
In Germany, only 22% of 16-21-year-olds are thinking about starting their own business. Not doing it, mind you, just thinking about it. This contrasts with 80% of people in the same age group in English-speaking companies. Robert Stoffers, National President of the American-German Business Clubs, is out to change Germany. Here, he addresses participants in the new AGBC program Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow in Frankfurt, Germany.

]]> http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2008/02/07/entrepreneurial-spirit-in-germany/feed/ Return on Investment: Financing Your American MBA http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2007/09/19/return-on-investment-financing-your-american-mba/ http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2007/09/19/return-on-investment-financing-your-american-mba/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:56:42 +0000 athena http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2007/09/19/return-on-investment-financing-your-american-mba/ The eagerly-awaited Forbes report that ranks business schools in terms of return on investment appeared on September 3, 2007. On September 25, Business Coach Krissy Jackson will interview Dr. Marlena Corcoran, Director of Athena Mentor: International University Admissions Counseling, in an enlightening teleconference: “Return on Investment: Financing Your American MBA.” Attendees will learn surprising facts and figures on how people finance the most demanding MBA programs–and why “it pays” for MBA applicants to aim high!

Munich, Germany (Bluehost/PRWEB ) September 11, 2007 — Forbes just ranked U.S. business schools in terms of ROI: Return on Investment. Number One is the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and Number Two is the Stanford Graduate School of Business. They’re great programs–but how do people pay for them?

The full text is found at:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/mba/investment/prweb552311.htm

Now, go back to the home page page of Athena Mentor and sign up for our newsletter! That way, you will be sure to get the latest information about the dial-in numbers for this free teleseminar, as well as announcements about upcoming teleseminars!

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How do you land a plum internship? This student asked people she met through her job in a VIP lounge at a sports arena, and got herself an internship in events management at Lufthansa. She will always remember the exciting events she helped organize in exotic European locations.

Whether you’re applying to college or to an MBA program, significant and varied work experience is a plus!

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No matter what topics are set by the colleges or MBA programs to which you apply, what the admissions committee really wants to know is . . .

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Is it art or is it campus housing? A first-year student discusses a nest-like twig installation on the Brown campus. In the background, people wildly applaud Shakespeare’s Othello. That’s college culture. The site-specific installation is by Patrick Dougherty.

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How can you find an exciting internship in your field–one that entails more than making coffee?

A German student who landed a travel internship in Costa Rica for six months explains how she found her internship, and how she made sure in advance that it was the right placement for her. Make note of the questions she asked before and during her interview!

]]> http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2007/08/07/internship-in-costa-rica-right-for-you/feed/ What’s the best low-key summer project? http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2007/06/27/whats-the-best-low-key-summer-project/ http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2007/06/27/whats-the-best-low-key-summer-project/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:44:00 +0000 athena http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2007/06/27/whats-the-best-low-key-summer-project/ What’s the best low-key summer study project if you’re looking at a monster exam this fall? Whether the standardized test in your future is the SAT, GMAT, GRE or yet another of these big rocks in your road, there’s a little something Athena Mentor recommends you do every day: add a few new words to your vocabulary. Give it a try with this little story. There are a couple of helpful hints at the end.

“The GMAT is an abomination,” grumbled Randy. “Why any MBA program would subject us to the enfeebling process of fabricating essays on egregiously pointless topics . . .”

“It’s an enigma,” agreed Sandy.

“The vocabulary is arcane, the critical reasoning exercises are abstruse and the reading comprehension questions are just . . .”

“An enigma,” agreed Sandy.

“Who can we get to illuminate this morass?” mumbled Randy, irritably.

“That would be Athena Mentor,” confided Sandy. “She’s a monomaniac on the subject of building one’s vocabulary over the summer.”

If you need to, ah, brush up on some of these words, Athena Mentor recommends the dictionary at Merriam-Webster Online. Click on the little loudspeaker icons to hear each entry pronounced with an American accent.

Athena also recommends the Cambridge Dictionaries Online. If you are studying for an American exam, be sure to use the Cambridge Dictionary of American English. If you’ve been brought up on British English, you can compare usage on this, ah, invaluable site.

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A first-year student is ready to wrap, though his esteemed professors could go on forever.

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