Will Gen Y Be Able to Retire?
Categories: Business, Featured Post
Our procrastination cure? Start saving for retirement now.
Generation Sell?
Categories: Lifestyle
Everyone is smiling, yet behind that smile is the tentative expectation that the world will collapse.
Millennials Find Consensus (A Response to Lila Nordstrom)
Categories: Current Events
Replacing a negative stereotype about Millennials’ need for positive reinforcement with a positive stereotype about Millennials’ need for positive reinforcement really isn’t helping our cause.
Think You’re Healthy? A Closer Look at Millennial Health
Categories: Current Events
Millennials may think they’re fine, but new statistics and research show our generation may be in less than perfect health.
Occupy Wall Street: Gen Y Against It
Categories: Current Events
Although occupations across the US have grown immensely over the last month, not everyone in our generation is supportive of the movement.
Are We the Lost Generation? (A Response)
Categories: Current Events
Gen Y is struggling to leave home, find work, and begin a family in record numbers, and The Atlantic has dubbed us “lost.” Lexis wants you to know why that’s an over-step.
The Golden Age of Journalism
Categories: Current Events
Journalism is not dying. In fact, it has come to life, and Gen Y is here to make sure it stays that way. Welcome to the Golden Age of Journalism. Not only are we out there telling stories, we are doing it effectively and will someday (hopefully) have the credibility of some of the greatest voices of the craft.
How I became a government-trained subversive
Categories: Drug Week
If you went to elementary school in America, you had the D.A.R.E. program. Through friendly lions, fun activities, workbooks and completion certificates, D.A.R.E. taught us a lot about drugs and how to refuse them – and it worked for me.
Change is what we want to believe in
Categories: Business
We switch from job to job because our college applications told us we needed to be well rounded. Because the restaurant manager said we needed experience just to seat people to their tables. Because our parents told us they wanted better for us than what they had. We like change. We thrive on it, we’re used to it, and we want it.
Cultural decline: not our fault!
Categories: Current Events
Someone will always be asking, “What’s up with kids these days?” But youth is a reflection of society, and as our culture free-falls into a downward spiral, so do we. While many find it easy to point the finger of blame at us, the path downhill was paved by our forefathers.
