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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One of the biggest challenges to getting out of debt is that all of your expenses add up to more than your income. This is the challenge for many recent college graduates who are still living the dream of their college experience long after the music’s died away. Even if you weren’t a party person,
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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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Below are the alarming statistics that InternMatch got from surveying 10,000 seniors: 82.0% of upcoming graduates have not secured a job for after graduation 81.9% of those who secured jobs completed at least 1 internship 54.9% of seniors have looked/been looking for a job for 3 months or more 43.9% of upcoming graduates are planning
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The ensuing months after the euphoria of college graduation can be quite sobering, especially for graduates on the lookout for a job that matches with their interests. When we’re in school, we’re led to believe that there are competitive industries out there that could use our newfound expertise, no matter what discipline we studied. It
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Though the situations seem a lot alike, having a roommate in a college dorm and living with someone in the real world can be two completely different situations. When you don’t have class all day, eat in a dining hall and have everything at your fingertips, apartment life can get a bit, well, annoying. I
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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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Graduation is an exciting time for a college student. All the hard work you’ve put in over these last four years is finally going to pay off, and you’re finally going to start working that dream job. Everything you have planned for your future is about to come to fruition. Right? While graduation may be
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What do you do when you can’t find a job after college? Very few students graduate from college with a crystal clear vision of what their future will hold. The world is all before them, as Milton would have said, and as if the weight of choosing from an infinite number of career and life
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