Show:
The College World
The Wrong Personality
Is that really a rule?
Not Just for Work
Hardly seems fair
100
The major difference between colleges and universities is this.
Colleges are smaller than universities (and focused on undergraduates vs. graduates).
100
TRUE/FALSE: Your personality determines which careers you can be successful in.
FALSE, every career has examples of successful people with a wide variety of personality types.
100
Name one visible article of clothing that the rules do not restrict.
Socks, scarves, etc.
100
What kind of resume might you upload to the Common App when applying for college?
An activity resume
100
Principal Vaughn is well known for wearing this type of clothing.
Under Armor
200
In the United States, public colleges and universities have this feature regarding their tuition.
It's different for in-state and out-of-state students (out-of-state students pay more)
200
Astrological predictions can be used to demonstrate this weakness in personality testing.
The Forer Effect (or the Barnum Effect)
200
Students sometimes button their maroon coats up to the top, and leave them buttoned up that way all day, because of this.
They aren't wearing a tie!
200
A summer work-like experience, for which you do not get paid, can be one of these two things.
Unpaid internship or volunteer experience.
200
How old is Alexander Terebey (to the month)?
14
300
Name five colleges and/or universities that visited SPAS this year.
Bard College, City University of Hong Kong, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Central University of Finance and Economics, Baylor University, GMU Korea, NYU Shanghai, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, University of Virginia, [possibly more]
300
Personality tests are occasionally biased against this personality type.
Introversion
300
The only non-clothing item forbidden in the "dress code" section of the handbook.
Blankets
300
How long should your resume be?
Exactly one or exactly two pages
300
We discovered in Bamboo Bike Beijing that bamboo is this type of plant.
Grass
400
The main difference between the TOEFL and the IELTS is this.
In the TOEFL you talk to a machine. In the IELTS you talk to a person.
400
The oldest personality test we studied and presented in the class is this.
The MBTI
400
A "positive behavior" results in a gain of this many house points for your house.
Five
400
Why is typing all of your personal information into a web-based "resume writer" a bad idea?
The site will only ask you for money after you have spent a long time entering this information.
400
This country won Festival of Nations this year.
Italy
500
The negative 'social contract' described by the Comparative Politics professor in the film Declining By Degrees is a result of what to parties making what unspoken agreement.
The professor "agrees" not to give challenging assignments in exchange for good course evaluations. The students "agree" to give good course evaluations in exchange for unearned grades.
500
The Big Five's origin as a theory is different from that of the other personality tests because it is based on a different thing. What is that thing?
Linguistic analysis (vs. psychological theories)
500
What are the two types of footwear specifically forbidden in the school building?
Sandals and soccer cleats
500
Your photograph should NOT be included on resumes in the United States because of this.
Potential discrimination (which is illegal)
500
Garry Kasparov, possibly the greatest chess player of all time, was the first world champion to lose a match against a computer in 1997. What was the computer system that defeated him?
IBM's Deep Blue