Thursday, September 26, 2013

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Become a Mentor | iMentor

This is a great program mentoring high school kids. I participate in it and have had a great experience (and I also have a great mentee too!)

iMentor is specifically looking for 300 more male mentors (mentor pairings are same gender) and they start matching their students with their new mentors in two weeks so please volunteer. As I said, I'm in the program myself and in addition to being a great program with a great mission, the support from iMentor and the school makes it very easy to focus on mentoring while iMentor handles the logistical and administrative details.


Wednesday, September 4, 2013

An eye-opening view into demographics and politics

Columbia University School of Journalism professor and New York Times op-ed contributor Tom Edsall has a very interesting piece citing a number of studies about the correlation between demographic changes and political ideology. Of particular note is the following passage:
"In 1988, the Democratic presidential nominee, Michael Dukakis, carried 26 percent of the nation’s counties, 819 of 3,144, on his way to losing the Electoral College 426-111 and the popular vote by seven percentage points. In 2012, President Obama won fewer counties, 690, but he won the popular vote by four points and the Electoral College in a landslide, 332-206."
While the title of the op-ed piece is misleading, the content is very interesting and worth reading.