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Let’s admit it, stress can be a bitch. Whether you’re graduating high school or graduating college, or finishing up grad school this year, with change comes a lot of transition and planning for the next step in your journey.
In these times, it’s even often harder to find those moments where you can be at one with yourself when it feels like there are 1,000 things on your to do list to tackle before graduation.
Today’s post features an article on the PickThebrain.com blog. The best tip we came across was:
“When stress emerges it is often from time-pressure and being overworked. We all forget, or want to ignore the fact that we can’t do it all! We want to take on more without giving something up. Doing so will ultimately come back to burry us.
If we’re constantly on the go we need to eventually take a break for some R&R.”
We couldn’t have said this better. In the final year of your graduation, be sure not to bite off more than you can chew and over commit yourself. Go for quality and not quantity in the things and activities you pursue.
For more fantastic tips, you can check out the full post here. See you at graduation!
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Senior year is a stressful one. Besides the stress of planning for graduation, ordering your cap, gown, and graduation sashes, there also comes the stress of job searching. Will you land that dream job you’ve been wanting? Will you work at a big company, a start-up, go out on your own… or will you be jobless?
Time and time again, some of the best tips we’ve heard from career centers is to plan early, plan early, and plan early. Waiting until April or May puts you at a disadvantage compared to you peers.
Today’s post highlights some tips featured on Fortune (part of CNN).
Most importantly, once you’ve secured that job interview, now it’s time to wow the hiring manager. One of the recommended questions was:
“With all the growth here, how do you feel the company has changed since you came on board?”
For the full post and amazing tips, visit Fortune to read more.
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Budgeting for the graduating senior can be a tricky thing. With senior year comes a bunch of extra expenses. From end of the year banquets, to graduation parties, graduation stoles, moving expenses and more… it all adds up.
Another cost of senior year that often isn’t always factored in is food and entertainment. If you’re one who goes out with friends often, it’s very possible that you end up spending more than you want to when at bars.
Today’s post highlights a better post from wisebread.com on budgeting tips.
“Every good budget should have a section for entertainment and fun purchases (or else, what are you earning all of that money for?) but building a little splurge fund that rolls over from month to month gives you a way to treat yourself occasionally without wrecking the rest of your financial health.”
Read the full post here. (Wisebread)
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Let’s admit it, a clogged toilet is one of the most non fun things to deal with. Combine this with living with roommates, and well… when apartment chores come up it can be a real pain and cause disagreements and even fights in some situations. Today’s post highlights a unique tip covered by Lifehacker. In the post they highlight a way to unclog toilets that you may not have thought of before.
“Add a few cups of hot water to the toilet bowl before you start plunging. After you pour the hot water in, let it sit for a few minutes. To put it mildly, the heat helps break the, um, stuff up. This will make unclogging the toilet with the plunger much, much easier. The heat from the hot water can sometimes break up the clog without plunging, so this could be a good tactic to use if you a clog a toilet at a friends house and you don’t want to face the embarrassment of asking for a plunger.
Also, try adding some dishwasher detergent to the mix. The soap can help break the clog up, as well.”
This is great knowledge any senior should learn before graduation!
The original post: http://lifehacker.com/5893723/unclog-a-toilet-with-warm-water-and-dishwasher-soap
A few more cleaning tips: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/150-tips-and-tricks-on-cleaning.html
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What are your dreams after you graduate? Is it to go into the corporate world, start your own business, work for a start-up, or are you going into graduate studies?
Whatever it is, you’ll want to check out this new post from liveyourlegend.net. The post is interesting in that it highlights one of the tips Sir Richard Branson recommends. Let’s take note Richard Branson and his company have started over 400 companies…
So what’s the secret? Check out the official post on learning on how to be more productive today.
http://liveyourlegend.net/productivity-guide-how-richard-branson-does-so-much-the-power-of-fitness/
Note, this may also help you for finals week! Good luck, and see you at graduation!
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In a recent study by ebrary, they reported that 85% of college students reported turning to Google as their #1 place to gather information for homework, school projects and class assignments. While this number is surprisingly high to us, the question comes then… how do you cite all of this and validate the quality of the content? Are the websites students using mainly wikipedia, or are they doing more concise searches to find the information need from scholarly journals, credible news outlets, and non-profit organizations?
Check out the stats here as reported by emarketers http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1008894
Do you agree with this? Where else do you go to complete research papers that you need to pass in order to graduate?
Here’s a few research links we really like that might help you when finishing up your term papers:
http://www.scholastic.com/kids/homework/how_to_research.htm
http://library.duke.edu/services/instruction/libraryguide/
http://www.kyvl.org/html/tutorial/research/
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Just wanted to share with all of our readers a few of our favorite graduation related Pinterest pins so far.
Source: Uploaded by user via Paula on Pinterest
Source: sweetsugarbelle.blogspot.com via Diane on Pinterest
Source: ncrooksphotos.tumblr.com via Noele on Pinterest
Source: google.com via Mindy on Pinterest
Graduation season is just upon us, if you haven’t already make sure to order your graduation announcements, dresses, invite all of the relatives, plan the celebration dinner, and of course your graduation stoles!
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What is the best city to move to after college? The answer varies. There’a a lot of formal studies out there that analyze school systems, crime rates, polution, unemployment, and many more metrics. Ultimately you can read and review all of these ratings day in and day out, but the final determining factors do need to align with your life goals.
First, is a star school system that important to you if you are only planning on being there for a few years? Let’s take New York for example. A lot of people move to the Big Apple after college to make it big. Unless you’re attending grad school or moving with your family, or this is a move for the long run, this factor will likely be less important to you than the amount of jobs available in your industry in that specific region.
Second, it’s important to know the affordability of a city. Will the city be affordable for you to live comfortably. How long will your daily commute be? Does the city have recreational activities you can partake in when you’re not working?
And lastly, the friends and family. Will you know anyone in that city, or will you be starting fresh? Some people don’t adjust well to new surroundings, while others love the challege. Find that happy medium that would make you content!
In conclusion, the decision to move to a new city can be a tricky one. Don’t fall for an online rankings factor but really trust your heart and align your move with your goals.
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You’d be surprised how often one hears this question. What was the most valuable thing you learned in college? Or what was your favorite course? While it’s easy to dismiss a class where you might have had a teacher who wasn’t the most fun to be around, it’s often these classes that you remember about the most years later.
What was the most valuable lesson I learned in college? It came in Junior year in my an upper division Communication course. Our class was completing a group project for a local charity, Direct Relief International, and it was from this experience that I really was able to see the value of communication and marketing, and how it tied into practical applications in the real world. The hands on experience in this course taught me things that simply reading in a book, I probably would not have absorbed.
The other most valuable lessons I’ve learned in college were from my fraternity. It was through my fraternity that I’ve met some of my closest and still closest brothers and friends. We struggled together, lived together, learned together, cooked (or tried to cook together), and grew together. It was from this experience that I truly felt the “college experience” that eventually prepared me for the real world.
Whether your most valuable lesson comes from a class or out side, it’s up to you how you apply it post graduation and the friends you choose to keep in touch with. To all the high school seniors graduating soon, make your college experience worth it!
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