Words by: Karol Kudyba
Image by: Cristina Gardeazabal
With graduation comes a sense of entitlement. Whether earned or not, after walking across the stage it’s a common belief that your next job will not only be high-paying, but will last for the foreseeable future. Anything less seems like a failure and not even worth the time spent [...]
Archives: May 2009
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My Graduation Story
Words by: Dave Johnson
Image by: Crystal Bretschger Johansson
My graduation ceremony in May of 2001 was not something I was looking forward to. As I’m not one for pomp and circumstance at the best of times I didn’t exactly have the date marked on my calendar. The time that University and I spent together had already [...]
Lemon Live-In
Words by: Gillian Edwards
Image by: Karolin Schnoor
During university, I never lived with anyone that I was involved with. I had too good of a time living with my best friend and true soul mate, and failed to see why I would change what I had for a trumped-up version of playing house. But in my [...]
Undeclared; Undervalued: The Determinism of College Majors
Words by: Ariel Sasso
Image by: Crystal Bretschger Johansson
Remember when college majors didn’t really matter? When you could study history and upon graduation get a job in a completely unrelated field, like marketing or architecture?
Actually, you probably don’t remember. Because you are part of the new generation of college graduates, the generation that’s required to know [...]
The Final Countdown
Words: Adina Siperman
Image:laurennatclemson
There are many pragmatic ways to qualify my university degree. Hundreds of numbers run through my head as I think back to my twelve months in grad school. One of them is 4.5. No, that was not my grade point average. Rather, that is the number of pounds that I gained, being forced [...]
