I often get frustrated about how most of the press covers college students; they seem to condescendingly portray them as lazy, privileged, entitled "kids" who deal with problems that aren't supposedly real problems. Through all my time in higher education, however, most of the students I've had the privilege to meet and work with have been amazing people who handle all kinds of life issues while in school, working, volunteering, and doing 8 million other things, all at the same time.
Apologies for the rant, but this is why I was so pleased to see reports coming out about Blackboard buying an iPhone application that was created by Stanford undergraduates for $4 million. The application, TerriblyClever, helps coordinate all kinds of things that students may need to know about: course catalogs, events on campus, etc. Kayvon Beykpour and Aaron Wasserman, the students who designed the app., made it for several campuses already and claim that more than 45,000 people have downloaded it. (It might be worth a quick search if you're an iPhone kind of person.) Way to go, guys! Although it makes me wonder...what do 2 college students do with $4 million during their senior year...?!