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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There are several things that you can do to make each interview as successful as it can possibly be. Each of these steps has an impact on helping you to get the kind of job you really want: Always be punctual. Allow yourself enough time to get there, taking the address and the traffic into
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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Graduating from college, for me, and I suspect, for most students, is bittersweet. After four years knee-deep in academia, I was tired of the once exciting dorm parties, I was disillusioned by studying subjects that did not necessarily have any real-world application, and I felt anxious about setting out into the real world. Then, graduation
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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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The days of lugging around three, 1000-plus page volumes of Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past” are over! Thanks to the wonders of modern science, the backs of college students will be straight once more. The advent of the eReader has created a virtual library that weighs less than a pound. Following are seven reasons an
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One of the biggest decisions to make after graduating from college is moving back home with your parents. For many, the pros and cons of this choice will play a vital role in determining whether they move back. Below, you will find the pros and cons that are associated with this action. Cons Losing Money
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Getting accepted to college is difficult these days, but finding a successful job after four years of schooling is equally as problematic. In prior decades, the college experience was as much about academic exploration as it was career preparation. In other words, you could be accepted into a university and not even have to declare
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