Dear Paris, Sometimes the amount of learning I receive depends on the teacher of that subject more than the standards of that class. Right now, I don’t learn much in my Integrated Language Arts class. The teacher simply gives us assignments and grades very leniently saying, … [Read more...]
TIP Tries: Cities: Skylines
Cities: Skylines Paradox Interactive, $29.99 Rated E for Everyone When I was in school, I spent a lot of timing messing around in SimCity 2000. I loved building cities from scratch, tinkering with the layouts, seeing whether I could bring a metropolis back from a natural … [Read more...]
How The World Was Built
Odds are you've driven on a US Interstate Highway at some point in your life. There are a lot of Interstates, after all—46,876 miles of them, according to the Federal Highway Administration. They help people travel all over the country, whether it's I-95 along the east coast, I-5 … [Read more...]
Classic Reconsidered: Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens is one of those authors that most students fear. I know I did. His books just seemed so...boring. But there's a reason he's the classic English author (behind Shakespeare): his books captured what life was like for ordinary people during the 1800s. … [Read more...]
TIPster on Architecture
TIP's eStudies Program offers a class called Architecture: Reinvention and Design. It promises to help students "discover how architectural interventions can bring new vibrancy to communities and cities across the globe" and explore "case studies on successful adaptive reuse … [Read more...]