Paging Mr. Obvious:
Today’s college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according to a comprehensive new study by five psychologists who worry that the trend could be harmful to personal relationships and American society.
Source: Boston Globe
Hat tip: University Business
Related: Boyd: Self-Esteem Overrated

From Jonathan at My Money Blog (the best personal finance blog I’ve ever read):
Let’s say you have ten open suitcases, each with a different amount of money in them:

Obviously, if you had a choice you’d pick the one with $10,000 in it. But the Banker the closes the suitcases and mixes them all up. He […]

It’s February. College baseball has begun. On my to-do list for this year:

Plenty of Elon games. Defending SoCon champs, just beat the University of Miami on Friday, and a great atmosphere at Latham Park. And it’s free. Yep, free. Mid-week games against South Carolina (3/27), Wake Forest (4/3), and […]

Elon:
After the second week of competition in RecyleMania 2007, Elon is in 87th place out of 157 schools in the Per Capita division. Elon is in third place out of 5 North Carolina schools entered in the competition.
Elon collected 8,090 pounds combined weight of cardboard, aluminum, plastic, glass and paper related products last week, a […]

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So it’s four full days after the Super Bowl and Simmons is still too much of a coward to show his face and write about Manning winning the Super Bowl. Instead, today he posts an article about basketball today. Which I thought was a complete cop-out and ridiculously weak, until I read this […]

There aren’t many nights that I have a lot of TV I want to watch. Tonight is different.
A new episode of Friday Night Lights at 8.
The Super Bowl recap episode of Inside the NFL at 9.
A new episode of Lost at 10.
And Duke-UNC on two channels (the local broadcast and ESPN) at 9.
If I […]