Tag: life after college
5 Important Steps to Adjusting to Life After College
1. If you can, move back home (for a few). If you are able to, this is one of the greatest things you can do. Once you’re out, you won’t ever want to go back. And if you don’t want to grow up quite yet (I mean, who does?), moving back home is the perfect [...]
Where Are They Now? Two Years Later: Tom DaSilva
Author: Tom DaSilva Two years since graduation… wow. The day I graduated, I didn’t feel a huge sense of accomplishment. It was 20,000 other people getting the same blanket recognition. And we weren’t celebrating achievement… We were celebrating that we had “survived” something that we our parents had paid $50,000 a year for us to [...]
How to Avoid The ‘Real World’ 15
Everyone who has attended college has heard of the “freshman 15”…but have they also heard of the “Real World 15”? The Real World 15 is the weight that is gained AFTER you graduate from college. You no longer have the semi-healthy food options that your cafeteria or food court offers. You do not have the [...]
Where Are They Now? 4 Years Later: Hallie Andrew
Author: Hallie Andrew Who really wants to read another bellyaching tale of a twenty-six year old struggling to find work in this terrible economy? Who wants to hear a young woman complain about not living up to her potential? Who intentionally looks up such stories of desperation? …I do. I seek these stories out like [...]
Letter To My Senior Self
It feels weird, doesn’t it? The uncertainty, the fear, the nostalgia, the anticipation, staring you blankly in the face, and essentially owning your life. It’s all hitting you right now, a week before you’re a walking cliché, crying in your cap and gown, looking at all of your friends for answers you will never find, [...]