Manila, Philippines – A college graduation photo on parents’ graves, as shown below, is now going viral on Facebook. Kevin Villanueva recently graduated from Colegio San Juan de Letran Manila, where he took up Information Technology. He posted the photo on his official Facebook page on Sunday, March 31, 2013. Kevin Villanueva on graduation attire, [...]
The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) relieves its men’s basketball coach Ben Howland. The UCLA coach was fired after 10 seasons, ending the longest term for the team’s coach since John Wooden retired in 1975. A report on the official website of UCLA Bruins on Sunday, March 24, 2013 confirmed the news. UCLA Bruins [...]
Harvard wins over New Mexico on Thursday, March 21, 2013, making a surprise win in the second round of the 2013 NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) men’s basketball tournament, 68-62. This is the first time that Harvard University won the NCAA tournament. Fans celebrate after Harvard wins vs New Mexico Image Credit: NCAA video As [...]
Stack Of Dollars (Not the money in the report) Credit: Petr Kratochvil A 6th grade Michigan student reportedly brought $20k cash to school and started handing out the money to her classmates. As reported at 7 Action News, the ABC TV station in Detroit area, the incident happened at Sixth Grade Academy in the city [...]
Columbia University students eat 100 pounds of Nutella a day. Well, this is what Columbia College Student Council (CCSC) representatives seemed to have claimed in a report by Columbia Spectator on Tuesday, March 5, 2013. However, the university recently released a statement denying the report. Nutella Image Credit: NutellaUSA.com As noted at ColumbiaSpectator.com, Columbia University [...]
Stanford University becomes the first college to raise $1B in a single year, thus setting a new record for college fundraising, according to the latest Voluntary Support of Education (VSE) survey, conducted by Council for Aid to Education (CAE). Harvard University raised more than half only of Stanford‘s funds. Stanford University logo Image Credit: Stanford.edu [...]
Meet Lauren Marbe, the girl with an IQ of 161. Marbe, 16, a pupil at Roding Valley High School, Loughton, in Essex, England recently proved that she is smarter than Albert Einstein, by getting a score of 161 on the Mensa-accredited brain test, which she took only for fun, along with fellow students. Lauren Marbe, [...]
A group of 2nd graders correct NFL tweets with the correct grammar they learned from school, which went viral, as shown in the photo below. Amusingly, these kids from Elmwood Franklin Elementary School in Buffalo, New York had the courage to publicly correct the mistakes of the famous NFL players. Chris Culliver tweet with wrong [...]
A bus hits an overpass of the Western Avenue Bridge in Soldiers Field Road, reportedly a major crosstown parkway in Boston, Massachusetts on Saturday night, February 2, 2013. Bus hits overpass Credit: Boston Fire Department via Twitter The 1996 Calvary Coach bus was said to be carrying over 36 passengers, majority were Harvard University high [...]
An eighth-grade student in Vietnam has been suspended for Facebook post, several Vietnamese news sites reported on Tuesday, January 8, 2013. According to Thanh Nien News, Nguyen Thanh Vy of Ly Tu Trong Secondary School in Quang Nam Province‘s Tam Ky town has been suspended for one year after posting a parody in Facebook “insulting [...]