Best Wishes

Please tell me you are visiting this electronic precinct today because you got a new iPhone or Blackberry. Maybe a new MacBook?

Not much to report except best wishes and a quick note or two that you may have missed.

From a college release:

Dartmouth's Floren Varsity House has been recognized by the U.S. Green Building Council for its environmental sustainability, winning the Leadership in Energy and Environmental (LEED) 2.2 Silver Certification. The facility has also won the Design Award of Honor from the Society of American Registered Architects.

Do check out the above release, which has more information as well as several photographs.

With a daughter who will be applying to colleges in another year, we are paying attention to things like, well, like the return on the investment of your tuition dollar. Smart Money magazine recently ... "came up with a 'payback' ratio between the cost of attending an institution and the average salary earned by a graduate, and applied it to a sample of 50 schools."

Fifty schools is a small sample, but you'll be glad to know Dartmouth finished high in the Ivies, although the Ivies didn't finish particularly high overall. Here's an excerpt:

Public schools with the highest ratio: University of Georgia with an average payback of 338%; Texas A&M (315%); University of Texas, Austin (306%); Georgia Tech (263%); and University of Washington (225%). The winners in the Liberal Arts category were Washington and Lee (165%), University of Richmond (130%), Lafayette College (115%), College of the Holy Cross (114%), and Bucknell (114%). The top five Ivies: Princeton (132%), Dartmouth (131%), Yale (127%), Harvard (124%), and University of Pennsylvania (124%).

And in case you were wondering, I wrote this yesterday and rigged it to get posted this morning. The kids are growing up fast – too fast – but trust me, they didn't want to sit around this morning waiting for this blog. They have a lot of patience with Green Alert throughout the late summer and fall, but that might be pushing the envelope a little too much this morning ;-)