http://athena-mentor.com Fri, 09 May 2008 08:40:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2008/03/10/94/ 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/ 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. ... http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2008/02/07/entrepreneurial-spirit-in-germany/ 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." ... http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2007/09/19/return-on-investment-financing-your-american-mba/ 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 ... http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2007/08/28/event-management-internship-at-lufthansa/ 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 . . . http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2007/08/23/the-big-questions/ 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. http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2007/08/14/sculpture-as-campus-housing/ 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 ... http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2007/08/07/internship-in-costa-rica-right-for-you/ 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 ... http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2007/06/27/whats-the-best-low-key-summer-project/ A first-year student is ready to wrap, though his esteemed professors could go on forever. http://athena-mentor.com/blog/2007/06/19/last-day-of-classes-at-brown/