Sunday Special: Back To School

It's that time of year again: Back to school. So put on your best first-day-of-school clothing, put away your TI-89 and start your procrastination early with these five stories from the Digg archive. -The Digg Team The Daily Digg Sunday, September 8, 2013 PEMDAS IS A LIE One Of The Basic Math Rules You Learned In School Is Wrong gizmodo.com There are probably a lot of things you learned in school that you don't even remember, but the "order of operations"—also known as PEMDAS—is likely to be one that stuck with you; you'll mess up even simple equations without it. The catch? Well, it's wrong. NOT ALL JETS ARE JETS FOR LIFE How High School Groups Get Named themorningnews.org At one school, the popular girls were called the "chicken patties," but the jocks were just the "jocks." How teenage crowds get named. WEST COAST IS SERIOUSLY UNDERREPRESENTED The Smartest Party Schools In The Country buzzfeed.com These colleges take working hard and playing hard very seriously. LESSONS OF VIOLENCE Harper High School, Part One thisamericanlife.org This American Life spent five months at Harper High School in Chicago, where last year alone 29 current and recent students were shot. THE MILLENNIALS WILL HACK IT Iris Scans Are The New School IDs money.cnn.com Kids lose their school IDs but they don't often lose their eyeballs. Read more on Digg.com → CONSUMER CLASS Catherine M. Rooney, 6th grade teacher at Murch Elementary School, Washington, D.C. instructs her alert pupils on how to shop with a war ration book. Credit: The U.S. National Archives Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014