Today's college graduates take IM in the office for granted. If you protect your email systems but ignore IM, it's like locking the doors but leaving your windows open. Your security initiatives have to blanket both IM and email.

Just like email, instant messages can be used as evidence in a legal case. So it pays to make sure you have IM and P2P software under control in your IT environment.

That's a critical capability. If someone is promoted or demoted, their assigned rights to specific documents should change to reflect their increased or reduced responsibilities.

The email and storage markets are converging in the age of compliance. If you can't backup and recover your email messages quickly, you can't meet information retrieval deadlines from regulators or prosecutors.

Eventually, this may mean we actually get college students to run for state and local office. There have definitely been instances of college students being elected to public office before. And, to my knowledge, they didn't have one capstone social justice issue like this to run on.

Almost every college you are applying to will give exceptional student aid scholarships. Ask the financial aid office at the school for all the aid information they have.