So, you’ve graduated or are on track to graduate within an academic year. You’ve dedicated countless hours, a few dozen sleepless nights and sacrificed a football game or two, all to maximize your ability in what ever it is you’ve studied for these last four (or more) years. Everything you’ve worked toward should make getting […]
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Moving back home with your parents is far from pleasant, especially if you expected to land the job of your dreams, conquer the world, and get a place of your own after college graduation. If you’ve recently graduated college and have had to move home after being unable to find a job, you shouldn’t feel
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I belong to a group of more than five friends from high school. After going away to college, I was immersed in the sea of eager freshmenhood (no, that isn’t a real word) and selfishly put my “old” relationships on the backburner. I began building a close relationship with my roommate and other girls in
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It’s a pretty common story, one that thousands of recent grads have experienced. You finished school, and maybe you’re tired of the city where you studied. Maybe you were raised in a small town like I was, and you feel that it’s time to start your adult life completely anew in an exciting city filled
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When I first graduated from college I didn’t exactly have a clear-cut plan on what to do next with my life. I just knew that I wanted to write. So that’s what I did – I wrote and I wrote as fast as I could. I wrote poems, children’s stories, short stories and started novels.
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“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett Spoiler alert Despite the extremely depressing nature of Beckett’s body of work, what you are about to read is an uplifting guest post that is going to do its damnedest to reassure you that the big, dark world you’ve graduated
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For most my life, I’ve been immensely lucky. Throughout my young adulthood, I’ve obtained great grades, worked exciting jobs, cultivated long-lasting relationships, and adopted numerous useful hobbies. In fact, there isn’t one thing I’d go back and change if I had to. Well….let’s take that back. There is one thing. From the day I first
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As I was walking the line at my high school graduation, I was ready to just keep on walking all the way to freshman year of college. I wanted nothing to do with my high school, my hometown, or even many of my high school acquaintances—I was done. Give me my diploma and get me
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Bryan Cohen here, guest poster and author, promoting my new book The Post-College Guide to Happiness for The Happiness Blog Tour. “If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.” –
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Of course, there are many lessons in life that are learned outside of the classroom (in fact, some may argue that most are). However, there is no environment that teaches us more in a shorter amount of time than college life. Sure, our collegiate years teach us things like how to seduce the guy down
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