Posts Tagged ‘ Advice ’

College Student Job Search Advice

There’s a great series of student job search[link get real fast] posts up at Phil’s Career Blog. The articles hit on three different students, their respective education paths, and how each one tends to move through the world. [ READ MORE ]

Dating a Colleague When Tenure Is Hanging In the Balance

Humans are animals, and will do anything to survive and continue the species: food, sex (love), and survival, that’s all we need and are instinctively hell-bent of the pursuit of those goals. As far as I’ve seen, only tenure can veer an otherwise intelligent human animal away from food, sex and survival[ READ MORE ]

Moving On After An Epic Fail

Along the lines of my previous post regarding the much abhorred Epic Fail, Emily Chapman at Hack College wrote a piece advising one to Refuse to Dwell, Move On, Kick Ass. Well put[ READ MORE ]

How To Land A Mentor

Those giants are called mentors, and every chucklehead youngin’ like yourself wants one. The more awesome a mentor, the more sought out they are. This has the unfortunate effect of making them ignore most of the tweedle-dums who come begging for their priceless advice and knowledge[ READ MORE ]

Bad SAT Scores? All Is Not Lost

Stop panicking, all is not lost. There’s work to be done, so pull your freaking out little self up, take a deep breathe, and get to it. [ READ MORE ]

Amy Poehler’s Speech for Harvard Grads

Amy Poehler gave a commencement speech at Harvard. I shouldn’t have to write another word. If you require one line to convince you it’s watch-worthy: Poehler seamlessly slips words of wisdom into a long string of funny[ READ MORE ]

Pay Attention When Scott Adams Gives Education Advice to College Students

Since he’s already got my respect, I had no trouble giving full focus to his article in the Wall Street Journal about why the average college student would benefit more from learning how to run a business than from all that chemistry, calculus, and art history mumbo-jumbo. I loathe business and can’t get enough of the mumbo-jumbo arts, hard sciences, and math, but his article made so much sense I was forced (against my will!) to agree[ READ MORE ]

Grad School Heaven

Two major points in their favor: They understand the college rankings machine and its methods are questionable and should be taken with a grain of salt, and they are of the strong opinion that any prospective grad student who pays someone else to write admissions essays/statements/letters of intent is a jackass who is decreasing his/her chances of being accepted[ READ MORE ]

Lindsey Pollak’s Top 10 Job Hunting Tips of 2010

It’s next year, which tends to trigger heaps of clean-slate thoughts and lots of getting-shit-done inspiration. For anyone wanting advice regarding career development/improvement, or maybe just a job, Lindsay Pollack has rounded up her Top 10 Job Hunting Tips of [ READ MORE ]

Year One: A College Blog

The transition from being a kick-ass high school senior to a floundering, inept college freshman is no fun for anyone[ READ MORE ]