The Next Great Generation

They call us the Millennial Generation.

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Staying connected between the sun and the screen

By Kim Angelovich on September 3rd, 2010
Categories: Connect

Millennials are the most technologically connected generation to date. We don’t need to spend the summer on the beach or at the basketball courts to interact with our friends. but we haven’t given up the summer days of lounging in the sun and enjoying the great outdoors.

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The Golden Age of Journalism

By Wynn Harrison on September 3rd, 2010
Categories: Think

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.

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Would you want to try out the pain ray?

By Jennifer Orr on August 30th, 2010
Categories: Think

American prisoners are being used in an experimental run with an invisible pain ray? And it’s happening against their will? Seems like a sci-fi movie plot, right? Only, it isn’t.

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Communication best learned through wine, friends and food

By Brittany Lewis on August 27th, 2010
Categories: Travel Week

Our travel experiences are not necessarily limited to the group tequila shot photos gracing Facebook that have become the stereotypical study abroad anecdotes. We grew up with tehcnology and as we have matured and technology has evolved, so has our way of communicating.

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Tesla who? Gen Y and a Great Mind of the Past

By Derek Anderson on August 4th, 2010
Categories: Think

Tesla has been dead since 1943. So what does that have to do with us? Inspiration. The man invented a giant, floating elevator and made electricity possible. We, as a generation on the rise, also have this potential.

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In Love with Social Media (No, Seriously)

By Jessica Weil on August 4th, 2010
Categories: Connect

Oxytocin is a chemical that heightens feelings of love in the human brain. Recent studies and experiments have shown that using Twitter and other forms of social media actually release the chemical, making humans feel happier and relaxed, the more they interact with friends online.

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Banking’s next generation

By Kristen Fritz on June 29th, 2010
Categories: Shop

DBS Bank in Singapore is reaching out to Gen Y by launching the “I-Designed-A-Bank” contest. By using crowdsourcing, the contest aims to find out firsthand from the younger demographic what exactly they want in a bank.

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Gone to Bonnaroo

By Carlee Mallard on June 24th, 2010
Categories: Live

Having never been to a large camping-style music festival, I had absolutely no idea what I was getting myself into when the email came in saying I’d been chosen to go to Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, all expenses paid. All I knew at the time was that it was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. I would do almost anything to get there.

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Text messages don’t say ‘I love you’

By Alex Pearlman on June 21st, 2010
Categories: Live

Millennials are the first generation to devote so much time to studying and working abroad in cities other than the ones their significant others reside in. Technology has come a long way to help out those in long-distance relationships, but traditional relationship rules like long letters and phone calls are still necessary.

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A new editor, new ideas and a more active TNGG community

By Edward Boches on June 3rd, 2010
Categories: Grow

For the last seven months, this blog has been a place for Gen Y writers to express their opinions, share their ideas, and speak for themselves. The idea has been to counter the labels – entitled, unfocused, lazy – pasted upon this generation by much of the media. But what began as an experiment has [...]

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