Today's Ypulse Guest Post is from David Moon, a recent graduate from the University of Adelaide.  I had the pleasure of meeting David when he spent his year abroad studying at UC Berkeley and as an American Studies major, I thought he would have some interesting insights towards how the campus cult...

Part of an ongoing series “MBA in Finance: Forget It?” My question: Given the weakness in investment banking, hedge funds, and financial services in general, how do you react to applicants who say they want an MBA to enter IB, PE or a related field that has been devastated by the economi...

I've waffled on how, or even if, I would write my critique of the Berkeley RAD Lab's paper titled "Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing."  I think I've had a hard time deciding where the authors have their heads, hence the title.  Those of you who know me are probably chuckling at ...

Here is the Amazon.com page for the book and here is the website for the author Frances Dinkelspiel. We did this interview a couple of weeks ago via email. I told Frances to only answer the questions she found interesting. I’ve left in tact all questions I sent her. * What were the biggest obs...

At last, I have finished my work and have reviewed all of the entries. With the help of my business-smarts younger brother David, we’ve decided on the winner(s) of an HP laptop, HP Printer, and 500GB external hard drive. Again, as I mentioned in my previous post, the main criteria for a winnin...

Once again, shit has hit the fan within the Bear State. A union representing 8,500 University of California service workers began a five-day strike today over salary disputes. Josh Keller of The Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog (for the record, a fellow UC Berkeley alumni that used to kick my...

According to a survey, a full 50 percent of the public isn’t aware there is a problem with declines in the bee population. So I guess they wouldn’t know that a full third of our food is pollinated by bees (enough for the Häagen-Dazs company to start worrying about where it’s going...

Last week, Ira Glass, host of This American Life spoke with This American Life contributor David Rakoff at UC Berkeley. What a nice thing for the students! But the engagement was spoiled by New Yorker writer Cynthia Gorney, who can't moderate an event to save her ass. The Berkeley student paper wrot...

You’ve got a staff of about 200. Your task: to create a newsroom for the 21st century. Where do you put your staff? Where do you invest your resources? How many reporters do you need? What about editors, copy-editors, photographers, programmers, web producers, and technical support? How much d...

"I’m Mr. American Dream since I was 17 Don’t matter if I step on the scene They still gon put pictures of my derrière in the magazine You want a piece of me? You want a piece of me… I’m Mr. 'Lifestyles of the rich and famous' (You want a piece of me) I’m Mr. 'Oh my God that Cato's sh...