Amy McDowell is the VP, Web Marketing at Knewton and an MBA student at Columbia. She loves thinking of ways to spread the word about Knewton’s GMAT course and LSAT course.
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As a current full-time student in Columbia Business School’s executive MBA program and a full-time online marketing maverick for Knewton.com, I often get asked this [...]

2009 was an exciting year here at Knewton, but we’re even more psyched for the year to come. Aside from providing the best LSAT prep and GMAT prep out there, here are some of the Knewton team’s top resolutions for 2010.

Eat more salad.
Drink less coffee.
Run a marathon.
Run the NYC marathon (stepping it up in the [...]

You won’t see Alvin Hough Jr. in any Knewton classes for the next few months, but he has a great reason for being on hiatus: performing in the international tour of Dreamgirls! You can catch him on stage as the show’s keyboardist (check the awesome costume above), and he’s also the orchestra’s associate conductor.
Last week [...]

Team members were asked to name their favorite Thanksgiving side dishes.
Some responses:
Chris H. — Yams with apples, walnuts, and marshmallows on top!
Cassie — Sweet Potato Casserole
David C. — Dumplings made from canned biscuits
Amy – I make an awesome Chinese-style T-day turkey. The turkey is marinated overnight in a soy/ginger/rice wine and baked with a sticky [...]

In addition to Knewton’s main Twitter account, you can now connect with team members individually. Click an image to follow that person’s Twitter.
Lead Verbal Developer for Graduate Programs Alex Sarlin:

Associate Product Manager Sara Petry:

From an informal survey of Knewton employees.
Classics
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Nineteen Eighty-Four
War and Peace

A Confederacy of Dunces
Love in the Time of Cholera
East of Eden

History
History of Philosophy, Volume 1
The Outline of History
The Essential Marcus Aurelius
Contemporary Fiction
Middlesex: A Novel

Europe Central
Flaubert’s Parrot
Olive Kitteredge
Little Children
The Lazarus Project
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – [...]

Four months ago, I answered a job posting for a summer internship at a test prep company. At the time, I had no idea that the company’s goals aligned so perfectly with mine.
As a student of human-computer interaction, I am passionate about making technology easier to use–bridging the gap between the brain and the system. [...]

Knewton Faculty Manager, Dave Ingber, responsible for hiring the best GMAT prep and LSAT prep teachers in the world, shares some of his vaunted shtick.
What’s the first thing you do when meet someone? Google search?  Take a look on Facebook? Seeing that my name isn’t especially unique, I figured I’d save you the suspense of [...]

Knewton Office Manager Stacy Tice shares her experience as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and offers advice about how to earn graduate credits while serving.
Are you debating whether to join Peace Corps or go to graduate school? I was very anxious to live overseas, use my Spanish every day, and face the unknown—so I chose to [...]

An online test prep company.
The world’s most powerful adaptive learning engine.
An educational platform, about to do a great amount of good.
A second home to 35 extraordinarily talented people, working around the clock.
We like to believe all those assertions are true. And we plan to use this blog as the enlightenment arm of our apparatus. [...]