Education & Employment

Computer Science and Business (CSB) at Lehigh University (and alternatives)

I enrolled at Lehigh University in 2012 and graduated with a Computer Science & Business degree in 2016. Almost five years have passed since then and I’m happy to report that I can be considered a conventional success. On top

Radical Ideas for Improving Higher Education in America

Introduction This is going to be a poorly-researched article where I make clear the opinions that I hold on higher education. Specifically, private colleges. I will propose many sweeping process changes. None of these things will ever happen. While my commentary will

When I was a freshman at Lehigh, we started a fraternity. I became a founding father of Phi Delta Theta – Pennsylvania Eta. More specifically, I became a re-founding father, seeing as the fraternity had been around for a long time but

People Still Don’t Understand Automated Resumé Screening

Here in my corner of the internet, I take pride in being original. As Dostoevsky said, “taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what they fear most.” Though spikes in traffic to my website do bring me some

Can Party School Rankings Benefit Colleges?

College administrators live and die by Princeton Review and US News rankings. What used to be just an overall leaderboard is now seen as the definition of value and success in diverse areas. There are so many categories. Not only is the

A History of Greek Life at Lehigh University

I graduated from Lehigh University in 2016. I was a member of a fraternity there and currently serve on that organization’s advisory board. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been obsessed with fraternities and secret societies. I think that it would

Two of the earliest posts that I wrote on this blog were Understanding the Resumé Screener and Beating the Resumé Screener. The point of these articles was to provide counter-arguments to much of the ridiculousness that one can find atop

The Unsung Importance of On-Campus Recruiting

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend a Lehigh Class of 2022 sendoff event in the Chicago suburbs. Two of my fraternity brothers who were interning in the city were able to join me, so we were

Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: May 26th, 2018 Reading Time: Tens of hours over four years I’ve been through this book, front to back, many times, and, this time, I’ve shelved it with