Life Posts
How does Gen Y travel?
At this exact moment I’m sitting in the passenger seat with my sister at the wheel. We just passed Richmond on our way from Raleigh, NC to New York City.
A week ago we weren’t sure if we were even going to make the trip. Even now we only have a few solid plans. The entire [...]
500 Days of Summer: what this 2009 flick says about Gen-Y
For those of you who actually spent last summer outside, instead of inside watching a movie about a girl named Summer, let me brief you on the plot (warning: spoiler alert).
Boy meets girl. Boy wants girl. Boy gets girl. Girl wants freedom. Boy loses girl. Boy falls apart. Boy quits job. Girl finds herself. Boy [...]
Analog > Digital
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – there’s something to be said for actual, face-to-face human contact.
You can’t replace it. You can’t duplicate it. Even in this day and age, where you can feasibly know every important piece of information about someone’s life without ever having spoken to them – or, for [...]
Busy Little Bees
3:27 A.M.
Just finished typing up the notes from my internship meeting and outlined goals to be reached by the next conference. I realize I should go back over the notes for the two tests I have tomorrow, but I need to prepare my draft for my Ad Team presentation on Tuesday. Not to mention this [...]
A Gen Y Take on the “Film Your Issue” Competition
The Film Your Issue competition, in its 5th year, is looking for solution-project ideas to front-burner issues from young adults 14 to 24 in a 3-minute video format, with accompanying one-sheet description.
The new Issue Song competition is looking for original 3-minute songs using the power of music to illuminate front-burner issues.
We see ourselves at the [...]
Global Education in Universities
Universities supposedly give us a global education. They encourage us to take foreign languages and study abroad. They encourage us to study the histories and political systems of foreign countries. But that is how far their global education goes. Universities supposedly prepare us for real life in a world of globalization. I appreciate their efforts [...]
Tattoos – A Defining Mark
In the Western world, tattoos were once the marks of rebels, bikers or ex-convicts. They were a sign of subcultures, and to “normal” people, they were a sign of an unsavory character. That’s changing, though. Tattoos are going mainstream, and now it turns out that the last person you would expect to have one, does.
Teenage [...]
Preparing Our Future For Yesterday
It’s a shame that communication and presentation skills—so essential to success in life—aren’t taught in school.
Does that seem right?
In a recent tweet I talked about how I had to endure class presentations from people who do not know how to present.
I am in my second year of university and there are still students who put [...]
Cap, Gown, Unemployment Check
After graduating in 2008, I fell into a job market experiencing historic constraints. Along with fellow graduates, I limped through the hiring process. I e-mailed dozens of resumes to companies both within my graduated industry and outside with nearly no success, no scheduled interviews and no prospects.
It was not until more than sixteen months after [...]
Gen Y’s Guilty Pleasure
Whether or not we care to admit it, our generation is utterly obsessed with reality television. Ever since MTV hooked us to the Real World, we’ve been transfixed by the industry and have grown up watching the phenomenon flourish.
It goes way beyond simply watching TV; the reality culture is ingrained in our daily lives.
Lingo from [...]
