Donald Trump is probably one of the savviest businessmen in America. Many business students study his tactics and business skills to learn how to succeed in the business field.

Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could actually take classes that Trump had designed for students to learn some of his tricks of the trade? Now that’s a possibility because Donald Trump has created his own online university, Trump University.

Donald Trump has selected “some of the finest instructors in the world, professors from great universities, the finest business schools and also friends of mine from the world of business that have gone through the hard knocks…and they’ve succeeded.” Read the rest of this entry »

Name: Meryl Davis

Competition: Figure Skating

Age: 23

Hometown: West Bloomfield, MI

School/University: University of Michigan

Majors: Anthropology and Italian

How she trains: Meryl and her partner, Charlie White, both attend school at the University of Michigan. They have been skating together since 1997, making them the longest-lasting figure skating couple in the country. The two train together at Arctic Edge Figure Skating Club in Canton, Michigan and at Detroit’s Figure Skating Club.

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Name: Zach Lund

Competition: Skeleton

Age: 30

Hometown: Salt Lake City, Utah

School/University: Westminster College

Major: Aviation

How he trains: Like any Olympian athlete, Lund is very dedicated to his sport. During the off season, he spends his days in his specialized gym, becoming leaner and stronger than he ever had been before. Zach does daily “torturous workouts” and cools down by riding a stationary bike. He also recently purchased a new, $15,000 sled, which he uses when he is earning first-hand-experience on the slopes.

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Name: Amanda Evora

Competition: Figure Skating

Age: 25

Hometown: Sugar Land, Texas

School/University: University of South Florida

Major: Business Administration

How she trains: Amanda and her partner, Mark Ladwig, train together in Ellenton, Florida. To keep themselves in the competitive spirit, they train with another Olympian pair, Caydee Denney and Jeremy Barrett. Amanda looks to Cirque du Soleil for creative inspiration. Amanda likes to challenge herself every day and has always had a strong “desire to try something difficult” when she is skating, such as a throw triple loop.

How she manages it all: Amanda likes to relieve some of her stress by spending time with people she cares about. She also enjoys playing Guitar Hero, traveling to favorite locations like St Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands and Oberstdorf, Germany, and by playing with her two cats, Finny and Flower. Amanda is happiest when she is living her life to the fullest; her favorite quote is: “Life is not a problem to solve but a mystery to live,” ~Father Drew.

Fun Fact: Amanda started skating when she was six years old when her father found a pair of hand-me-down ice skates that fit her. In addition to figure skating, Amanda likes to stay in shape by playing soccer and swimming.

Via TeamUSA.org and IceNetwork.com

Here are more Olympic athlete spotlights:

• Graham Watanabe
• Katie Uhlaender
• Michelle Roark

Competition: Freestyle Skiing

Age: 35

Hometown: Denver, CO

School/University: Colorado School of Mines

Major: Chemical Engineering, Petroleum Refining, and Environmental Science

How she trains: Skiing was always a family pastime, so Michelle spent many hours on the slopes near her hometown in Denver, CO when she was growing up.  Michelle now owns a home in Denver and spends many days on the slopes in Denver and in Winter Park, CO. When she isn’t perfecting her perfumes for her new business, you will find Michelle on the slopes, practicing.

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Olympic athlete Graham Watanabe

Name: Graham Watanabe

Competition: Snowboarding

Age: 27

Hometown: Hailey, Idaho

School/University: Westminister College

Major: Business

How does Graham Watanabe train: Graham spends, on average, five days a week training for his sport. Graham spends most days on the slopes, practicing his moves. To keep in top physical shape, he rides a stationary bike, does lunges, and runs uphill on a giant treadmill.

How they manage it all: Graham receives intense support from his family. His father and brother introduced him to the sport when he was young, and it has remained a family sport ever since. 

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Olympic athlete Katie Uhlaender

Name: Katie Uhlaendar

Competition: Skeleton

Age: 25

Hometown: Breckenridge, Colorado

School/University: Colorado Mountain College

Major: Science

How she trains: Katie spends around eight hours every day training or studying her sport. She combines running, weights, and stretching every day. Before she goes to bed, she often studies past races and new race courses to stay on top of her game.

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The holiday season is here! We’ve eaten the turkey and the radio stations are playing holiday songs 24/7. It’s time to start watching those traditional holiday movies.

For your viewing pleasure, I compiled a list of some of my favorite holiday movies. So next time you need to avoid studying for finals or want to eat a big bag of popcorn with your parents, put on one of these movies and enjoy yourself. After all, the season only comes once a year.

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Tuesday, November 10 the newest season of Sesame Street will premiere, with an anxious audience of pre-school aged children ready to sing, dance and learn.

What makes this premiere so special is that it marks the 40th anniversary of this iconic children’s show.

To really give this milestone the attention it deserves, first lady Michelle Obama will make a guest appearance, sharing her love of vegetables with the neighborhood.

It’s a fitting segment, as she introduced the first White House vegetable garden since Eleanor Roosevelt. In the segment, she’s going to show four children how planting seeds in the ground will yield fresh, healthy produce like tomatoes, lettuce and carrots. Just last week it was announced that Michelle Obama is adding childhood obesity to her issues of interest, and there’s no better way to help curb that than by introducing the value of fresh vegetables to young eaters.

The first lady will be competing for air space alongside the featured letter “H” and counting to 40 by 10s. Read the rest of this entry »

Pop Culture Founder, Ray Browne

Pop culture is possibly my favorite subject. There’s just something fun and intriguing about studying the Muppets, Grey’s Anatomy, or sports. At my school, there is a course focusing on the Twilight phenomenon and youth culture and a course studying The Beatles’ impact on music in the 1960s. Some might think these are classes that should not be taught on a college campus, but many think that they are a great way to analyze how current trends affect our culture.

The first man to define pop culture as an academic discipline was Ray Browne, a professor at Bowling Green State University. Browne died on October 22, 2009, from natural causes. Browne founded the first department of pop culture studies in 1973.

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