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Words By: Mark Hunter
Image By: Cristina Gardeazabal (www.guerrillamilkshake.com)
It’s difficult not to think of graduation as ‘the end’. After all, in literal terms that’s precisely what it means – the end of your studies – but it also signals the end of probably the most memorable, pleasurable and carefree chapter in the average graduate’s life. It’s [...]
The Perks of Parental Financial Support When We Need It Most
Words By: Lizzy Karp
Image By: Ashley Barron
Quietly indulging in a coffee and a blueberry scone at a local café, a curly-haired woman began to talk to me as she “could feel me in the room.” This part-time yoga instructor revealed the details of her forty-something [...]
Traveling as a means to avoiding reality
Words By: Ashley Laframboise
Image By: Ashley Barron
Ahh, graduation— I can still remember mine with such fondness. I was confident about the future and had no idea what would happen next. But somehow I knew, with the conviction characteristic of an idealistic twenty-two year old with an Arts degree, that [...]
Words By: Jodie Shupac
Image By: Erika Thompson
(special thanks to: atomicjeep, bdjsb7 & srboisvert)
Graduation has come and gone, albeit ceremoniously, but the jig is up and it’s time to level with your overeducated self. Without the pressure of looming deadlines and daunting reading lists, even the most pretentious of former students may realize that he or [...]
Arguments For and Against Going Straight to Grad School
Image By: Hugo Arias
We Don’t Need No Further Education
Words By: Sarah Stanley
Grabbing your bachelor’s degree and then heading straight to graduate school is a tempting option, especially in this economy. Not only is it another step forward, but it allows you to maintain control. Another block of [...]
How to Make Your Student Status Last
Words By: Anna Merlan
Image By: Erika Thompson (special thanks to: laurennatclemson & Ol Slambert)
Student life has its privations and its perks – dorm living is awful and 8 a.m. classes are inhumane, but college also comes with any number of fringe benefits (besides an education, of course). While I [...]
Words By: Jamie Phillips
Image By: Michael Tunney
Graduation: Decisions to be made, celebrations to be had, debt over which to agonize, professors’ houses to pelt with eggs. So much to do, and only so much alcohol can be imbibed before the cirrhosis sets in. Don’t worry, copious stress builds character. Or causes heart attacks, I forget [...]
Words By: Sam Clemens
Image By: ClickFlashPhotos
I work at a small company. There are six of us. Three young people and three senior people. We engage in the usual office pleasantries or un-pleasantries, as the case may be. As work relationships go they’re all pretty solid, but they are exactly that, work relationships. I’ve never been [...]
An Historical Document
Words By: Brian Levy
Image By: markhillary
It is 1989 and the world is a mess. There is a new American President and an economy deep in recession due to eight long years of deficit spending and trickle-down economics that never quite trickled. So, while it is the right of every generation to believe, with [...]
