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 [...]
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 [...]
Growing Up Facebook
I migrated North to attend Colby College in Waterville, Maine in the fall of 2002. Like me, Mark Zuckerberg was settling into his Cambridge dorm room. At the end of our sophomore years, Zuckerberg would use Harvard, along with Ivy League, and select Northeast colleges, to launch an online community that has since revolutionized the [...]
Everything I Wish I Learned in College, I Already Know
There are a lot of things I wish I learned in college. None of them are academic, and most of them I already know. All of them are those “life lesson”-type things you learn (sometimes painfully) outside the classroom and are certain of only about 12% of the time.
We may have more technology at our [...]
Interview with Melanie Danko, aspiring woman executive
Who else better to interview for TNGG than a fellow Gen Y, career woman, and outspoken blogger? Melanie Danko is the epitome of Gen Y’s “have-it-all” approach to life. She’s got the career, the lifestyle, the smarts, and still makes time to be a girl and have some fun. Read on to figure out how she does it, why [...]
Helping the World for Free
Nowadays, college students don’t have the extra cash lying around to be donating to charities. Let’s be honest, we are spending every last dollar on $10 pizza deals or something else of equal importance.
While our generation wants to make a difference, we currently don’t have the means to do so. So what choices are we [...]
Degrees To Go – College In Three
By my junior year of college, I was getting tired of sitting in a classroom. I was doing real reporting for stories that got a good grade, but just sat on my computer after that, without a chance to get published. I was in my second semester of an amazing internship that let me write [...]
