Walking The Work-Life Line
Categories: Business
Balancing work with having a life is a delicate dance, but it’s not impossible. Put down your smart phone, shut down your email, and get out of the office.
Resting Will Make You Better At Your Job
Categories: Business
It’s a workplace standard to prove importance with exhaustion. In reality, however, the best employees are efficient, healthy and able to balance work with life, and science has confirmed it.
Modern Marriage: Not your average affair
Categories: Family Week
The modern model relationship isn’t about supporting an abolition of marriage, but about the fact that we should be able to choose when we decide to settle down and what the terms will be, whether it be recognized by the court or not.
Apparently I’m not an adult. Well, shit.
Categories: Lifestyle
A recent New York Times article has really got our feathers ruffled. Young people are deeply insulted that psychologists and, you know, “grown-ups,” don’t think we’re on the right path. Well, we can think for ourselves, thank-you-very-much. Back off.
Living abroad as Plan A
Categories: Lifestyle, Travel Week
The decision to move abroad is not a response to a desire for a crazy adventure. It is not a caprice. It is not Plan B anymore. It is a conscious choice for a happy and fulfilling life, personally and professionally. In an age when we are criticized for taking too long to grow up, living abroad might be one of the few ways to speed up the process.
YouTube makes a time capsule with Life in a Day
Categories: Technology
Ridley Scott, Kevin MacDonald and YouTube have teamed up for a world-wide experiment, a time capsule, a documentary, an exploration of what it means to be alive in the year 2010. The Life in a Day project has the potential to have very meaningful cultural value to our generation and those that come after.
‘Life During Wartime’ and war in our lifetimes
Categories: Arts & Entertainment
Writer/director Solondz’s ‘Life in Wartime’ is confrontational and uber-direct when illustrating trauma and coming to terms with the truth, specifically in regards to life in post-9/11 America. Most of our “adult” lives have taken place post-9/11 and it’s harder and harder to remember what it’s like to not be on Orange Alert.
How much do we know about our history?
Categories: Lifestyle
We learn about American history exactly twice in our lives: in eighth grade Social Studies class and in eleventh grade American History class. How much of what we learn in school about American history really sticks?
The ‘Good Enough’ revolution is just a way of life
Categories: Technology
The idea behind the “Good Enough” revolution is that quality simply isn’t the top priority it once was to consumers. However, it may just be that Gen Y is changing their ideas of “benefits” and “value.” Just because we’re focusing more on price and convenience than on features and power doesn’t mean that those new products are inferior.
Don’t Lament, Just be Prepared for a Reality Check
Categories: Lifestyle
By Julia Drewniak As of May 23, I will officially be a college graduate. While I am glad to be finished with classes, I do have the huge hurdle of finding a job ahead of me. While I’m nervous about this task, I don’t view it as pessimistically as Mr. Queenan, as he describes in [...]
