The first day of class this summer, my professor started to give a lecture before noticing a student was asleep. Read more...

My summer is under siege. Read more...

As a recent graduate of UCLA and co-founder of the Society and Genetics Undergraduate Organization, I have taken particular interest in the controversy surrounding the proposal to offer gene testing to incoming freshmen at UC Berkeley and have several concerns related to both the scientific validity and social implications of the project. Read more...

Conor Bell laments the dearth of summer jobs for teenagers ("Absent teen jobs hurt future," June 28) and attributes it entirely to the current economic recession. But Mr. Bell misses an important, perhaps the most important, contributor to teen unemployment. Read more...