College & Education

Are You a Rebel Programmer Without a Cause? Help Transform Education

Welcome to Thrilling Heroics: a personal and career development site for college students and young professionals! If you enjoy the site, I encourage you to leave your comments and consider subscribing to future articles. Optimize your Life, Rock your Career, and Make the World your Playground!Steli Efti, a friend of Thrilling Heroics and creative entrepreneur [...]

College Grad Special: The Top 10 Best Commencement Speeches

Happy Memorial Day, dear readers. Today is an important U.S. holiday when we offer remembrance for all the women and men who have lost their lives in military service to our nation. It is also a time for family gatherings and BBQs that for many families coincides with their children’s’ next rite of passage as [...]

Looking for the Right Job After College? Alex Levit Provides Some Answers

Do you ever ask yourself how one of your friends got a seemingly awesome job? Or, ever find yourself staring off into space while you sit at your desk, daydreaming about being in another line of work?
Well, Alexandra Levit surveyed 500 gen-Y and gen-X professionals to find people with their dream jobs and she [...]

5 Kickass Benefits of Entrepreneurial Learning

John Hennessey is the president of Stanford University, U.S. News & World Report’s #4 university in the nation and voted one of America’s best colleges for entrepreneurs by Fortune Small Business. Hennessey is one academic who has an entrepreneurial legacy himself, as he transferred his important research in microprocessor technology to actual industry application by [...]

The Top 10 Universities with Great Free Online Courseware

This is for you dedicated students and other fans of continued learning!
A degree from a top university often comes with a hefty price tag. But these days you can nearly get an online education from these institutions for free! Though the business world indeed puts a high premium on the actual credentials you can put [...]

How To Use Your Peers For Fun And Profit!

You’re a high achiever! You’re motivated to succeed in your education and your career. But do you know the price of success? Frank Lloyd Wright, America’s most famous architect, captured it well when he said, “I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see [...]