Meet Ginger. Ginger is a cairn terrier with a sable tick coat. Ginger is only two months old and was recently fixed. Will you help Ginger find a loving home?
Students can fund an education three ways: paying upfront, taking out traditional loans, or increasingly, by taking part in ISAs. Given how new ISAs are, we work with every student to weigh the tradeoffs between each payment plan. The core advantage of…
To help students understand ISAs, we’ve created this glossary of the key terms in every ISA agreement. On an ISA, you pay a fixed share of your income over a set period of time instead of paying upfront or…
Thinkful has always focused on aligning our success with our students. Two years ago we introduced audited student outcome reports and to this day we’re the only school that updates them every month. Then we began providing tuition reimbursement for students who didn’t find a…
This week was rough, but I got through it. Here’s why:
As I briefly mentioned in my very first post, I had gotten an account with Codecademy prior to Thinkful. What I didn’t mention was that prior to…
(This story was originally developed for my work at Thinkful in 2015. I have re-read it in 2022, and stand by these recommendations; 2022 updates are in italic)
Was talking with Ben, our head of curriculum, last night when he offhandedly mentioned a “bug” in our curriculum. We were reviewing one student’s capstone project and he remarked that the font she had used wasn’t terribly legible.
Ben It’s a bug, I think, in the curriculum…