Meet Sue— the spicy Penn State University alumni. This fun-loving pharmaceutical sales woman refers to herself as the “PSU Celebrity”. This is probably because she has partied it up with Roberto Cavalli on his private yacht, she hangs with top models, and has made appearances at P.Diddy’s exclusive white

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Model Resume: The Guidelines (Source: Purdue University English Department)
It is easy for society to forget that meeting someone is the best way to know them.
Perhaps we really do judge books (and people) by the cover (letter)?

Circling Help Wanted Ad in Newspapers Clearly Unemployed (At your parents' house)
This is what happens when the most expensive school in the country has the worst career center in the world.

An update: Today I spent approximately three to four consecutive hours on YouTube. I don't really know what to do with my time. I'm done with school, but I haven't graduated yet. YouTube seemed like the most logical facilitator of denial about my state of unemployment and unprepar... MORE »

Brekan Kohlitz playing lacrosse. (Ann Arbor)
This past week Brekan Kohlitz became the first player taken in the MLL draft who was not from a varsity program. He was drafted by the Washington Bayhawks.

Check out the trailer for this new web series from some recent NU graduates.  Living in the big city trying to get laid?  Sounds a little cliché - but maybe I'm too cynical on the whole "quarterlife crisis in pop culture" thing.  Feel free to weigh in, readers!

Their YouTube channel is here, if you want to keep up with the series.

Sex and the City brought in $55.7 million this weekend, trumping Indy by almost $10 million! Aside from boosting cosmopolitan sales by at least 300% (Admit it. You had one before you entered the theater), it also premiered as the best debut ever for an R-rated comedy and the best ever for a movie with

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Sex and the City!

Indiana Jones.

It's hard to get a job, that's not a surprise.

Just ask Chris Van Horn, who just graduated with an engineering degree (KOMU-TV did):

"There is still people out there looking for jobs as they're graduating," Van Horn told KOMU. "It makes it a lot harder once you graduate."

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Though it surely has not reached a conclusion. The Marine Recruiting Center on Shattuck Avenue still stands, and Code Pink still meets in the front weekly to display their dismay.

But things have been winding down, as only a handful of protester... MORE »

Okay. Starting now you are witnessing the anxiety and probable slow breakdown of a University of Chicago fourth-year who is two weeks away from an extremely useful BA in English. The problem being, I'm good at analyzing texts, and pretty much nothing else. Unfortunately the only job that would eve... MORE »