Fund to Help Thai Students in U.S. Affected by Flooding

November 29, 2011, 4:49 pm

The Institute for International Education has set up a fund to help Thai students in the United States whose studies may be in jeopardy because of extensive flooding in their homeland. The fund, which is supported by the Freeman Foundation, will provide grants of $2,000 to $5,000 to Thai students at American colleges who face “serious financial difficulties” and may not be able to complete the current or spring semester. The deadline for applications is December 19.

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tengrrl

One day I’m going to have to screw up the courage and convert my Nook Color to Android. You make it look even more tempting than it already was.
22063319

Does this lead hold true for the newer and slightly more expensive Nook Tablet as well as for the Nook Color?
ebubar

I don’t believe this works the same way with the nook tablet. Its not as easy to run android off an SD card on that one. If I were you tengrrrl, I would go for it! Just put it on a microSD Card and see how you like it. You won’t mess anything up and you can just eject the microSD card if you don’t like it!
bethelcollege

I converted my Nook Color into the Gingerbread version of Android with an SD card, as the author is suggesting. You’ll find good directions at
http://www.thedustyblog.com/2011/08/how-to-dual-boot-your-nookcolor/. A couple of pieces of advice that would have saved me an hour: get an SD card reader from Walmart, the kind that plugs into your USB port (under $10). I have an integrated card reader on my HP desktop, but the machine is old enough that it couldn’t handle a 20GB microSD card–didn’t even realize it was there. The integrated card reader/writer let me get the SD card up in under 10 minutes once I’d downloaded the files. Very straightforward. I’m looking forward to see if the ICS version will be as easy, because the xda developers site seems to suggest it’s still pretty buggy. It is astonishingly easy to get Gingerbread up and running; I am tech savvy, but haven’t worked at this level before, and the instructions were extraordinarily easy to follow and implement. Running something like this demands that you be thankful to lots of people you’ll never meet.
lexalexander

If you don’t already have a Nook Color but want an Android tablet, look at refurbished models. My fiancee got me a refurbished Asus for Christmas for cheap, and it has been brutally reliable. I wish I could say the same about my Lenovo T420 laptop, which, at the ripe old age of six months, is heading into the shop a second time.
22063319

Thanks for the Color vs. Tablet information. In any case, my situation would involve a new purchase because I have a first generation Nook and I don’t think the touch screen control strip would make a very good tablet, even if it could be converted.

I confess I bought a Blackberry Playbook as a pal for my Blackberry phone when the price dropped from $500 to $199. It is a beautiful, elegant piece of doomed technology; I’m afraid it will shortly become the Betamax of tablets.