15 People Discuss What They Think Are the Necessary Skills for Future Jobs in America
No doubt about it, America’s workforce is changing fast and the skills that many workers had 50, 20, or maybe even 10 years ago just don’t translate to today’s automated and highly technological workplace. What will the future hold? What skills should younger people be focusing on? AskReddit users talked about what they think the...
20 People Sound off on the Stupid Traditions From Their Country
We all have traditions from our home countries that we think are…less than spectacular. Maybe it has something to do with politics, maybe it’s sports, maybe it’s just something that’s so ingrained in your society that it’s part of the national fabric…but you still don’t like it. AskReddit users weighed in with their opinions. 1....
Why Parents Think Home Economics Should Return to High School Curriculums
We live in a day and age when technology is everything. We depend on it for shopping, cooking, research, news, networking, social interaction, and pretty much most of the things we do from sun up to sundown. But, here’s the thing… Even though you can order detergent on the internet, it cannot do your laundry....
This is How You Use ‘i.e.,’ ‘e.g.,’ and ‘etc.’ Correctly in Sentence
We live in a world where emojis and shorthand can help get our point across, but we still come across a few language rules that tend to perplex and confuse, e.g. common abbreviations like the one I literally just used. Yes, maybe we don’t have to use common abbreviations such as i.e., e.g. or etc,...
High School Senior, Promised a College Scholarship Back in Kindergarten, Told She Can’t Have It
College affordability haunts the minds of parents (and kids) everywhere, pretty much from the time the little ones are born until they finally (hopefully) graduate with a degree. Costs have soared to the point where many cannot afford it, at least not without taking on obscene loads of student debt – so you can see...
A 5-Year-Old Girl Dressed up as 28 Famous Women for Black History Month
A little girl named Lola and her mother, Cristi Smith-Jones, went to great lengths to dress up the youngster in great costumes honoring iconic black women every day of February to celebrate Black History Month. These photos are from 2017, but they’re still a very powerful statement three years later. Let’s take a look. 1....
‘Fortnite’ Is Now Officially a High School and College Sport
Are my fellow nerds out there listening? Good, let’s get started. Every single time I talk to a younger kid (and some adults), they’re playing or discussing Fortnite, the incredibly popular video game that people just can’t seem to get enough of. Well, here is some good (and kind of surprising) news about that game:...
15 Students Share the Hacks that Made College the Best
College is a great time for most people, but it’s not without its challenges. There’s the studying, the pressure, the late nights, the social life, often a job or worrying about finances in some other way – which means many have created hacks that make navigating it all just a bit easier. Here are 15...