Archive for the ‘ Post-College ’ Category

Ira Glass Explains Talent

And then Mr. Glass allowed three Roadtrip Nationers to interview him about career advice. His answers were honest, complex, and blew not one iota of sunshine up anyone’s arse[ READ MORE ]

Your IQ’s Fine!

ScienceDaily has an article up about a University of Oregon study that shows Clarity in Short-Term Memory Shows No Link With IQ. Woohoo! I’m still smart![ READ MORE ]

Job Search Advice: What Your Prospective Boss Might Be Looking For

Students of life have it harder, especially if they’ve recently graduated into this here awesomely effed-up economic recession. No more dining hall access, which, as it turns out, is a hell of a lot worse than the food they serve[ READ MORE ]

Plagiarism Confuses the Information Generation

Plagiarism, for those of you who missed that day in class, is when you take someone else’s work and falsely claim it as your own. It’s very bad, and it makes you look like an ass@$%*[ READ MORE ]

Advice From An MBA Student

Any current or prospective MBA students out there looking for advice? [ READ MORE ]

Free Anti-Virus LinkScanner for College Students

One more reason to be paranoid and mistrusting: virus-writing bastards who want to send their flying monkeys out to the ether and into your helpless, naïve little computer, wrecking college, career, and any hope of a happy future for you and your currently non-existent spouse and children. [ READ MORE ]

College Students: It’s Okay To Loathe Reality

Please refrain from acting on the overwhelming urge you’ll have to stick a fork into your forehead after watching this[ READ MORE ]

Teaching Work Values to Children of Wealth

No can expect those young adults to have a graceful trajectory; they’ll smack the pavement a few times before they figure out the mechanisms of reality. [ READ MORE ]

Life After Grad School: Getting From A to B

Graduate school, should it have escaped everyone’s notice, prepares no one for reality. One learns insanely vast oceans of information, but this just means that the M-Something or the PhD in question just knows a lot of stuff[ READ MORE ]

MBA Job Market: Outlook and Advice

In the interest of acquiring the motivational energy required for pursuing a business career in this economy, I would advise first nailing down the minimum wage job most capable of making you loathe yourself and every sunrise you witness. [ READ MORE ]