Lifestyle Features

Continuing education 2010

Special good girl/bad boy edition

By PHOENIX STAFF | January 11, 2010

The perils of self improvement
With a new decade comes dubious planning for self-betterment and the optimistic promise of a fresh start. However, even the best of intentions have the potential to go awry, and seemingly innocuous continuing-education courses are no exception.
For love or money
You suffered the high-school advisor, her dizzying ﬂoral-print dresses, her tightly-wound chignon, and, in your catatonic, college-search state, heard her statistics-riddled drone.
Steering off course
We recommend the course taught by the indie filmmaker, the course inspired by a Daily Show regular, and the course considered “experimental.”
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The perils of self improvement
With a new decade comes dubious planning for self-betterment and the optimistic promise of a fresh start. However, even the best of intentions have the potential to go awry, and seemingly innocuous continuing-education courses are no exception.
For love or money
You suffered the high-school advisor, her dizzying ﬂoral-print dresses, her tightly-wound chignon, and, in your catatonic, college-search state, heard her statistics-riddled drone.
Steering off course
We recommend the course taught by the indie filmmaker, the course inspired by a Daily Show regular, and the course considered “experimental.”
Course correction
So it unfolded on Facebook, the story of this down-on-his-luck recent graduate in possession of a bachelor’s degree in the liberal arts from a respected area school.
A good girl's guide to feasting on culture
When you have to dig through your couch cushions to gather coins for your weekly naan fix, it's fair to assume that things are not looking up.
Continuing your global journey
Though several local continuing-education schools and centers have travel programs, they're inactive during the winter. While you wait it out for your next globetrotting adventure, classes in international dance, music, art, and language are an affordable way to build on your new food know-how within the confines of your busy lifestyle.
Playing with your food
In 1977, two food-loving childhood friends named Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield signed up for a $5 Penn State correspondence course in ice-cream making, just for the hell of it.
From the Web to the Workplace
Nearly nine percent of the Massachusetts workforce is unemployed this summer, and with local colleges cranking out a glut of degree recipients in a lousy job market, many of them are inevitably lounging around on futons, blogging and posting on Facebook walls in between job applications.
A taste of Piattini
We’ll take the Class in a Glass series at Piattini over traditional adult education anytime.
One Day you'll learn
College students are told relentlessly to enjoy their time in school.
Crash course
To move up in the world of music, one key is what you know; the other is whom you know.
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