The Ability Project puts the camera in front of some college students and gets their advice on what you need to do to survive freshman year in college. [via]
What are college grads doing these days?
August 21, 2009 @ 6:50 pm
According to City Room, lots of college graduates are passing the rough economic times altogether by enrolling in graduate school.
I know the feeling pretty well given the fact that I’ve been unemployed since graduating back in May 2009 with no clear direction of where I’m headed post-graduation. The economy seems to be affecting all industries (not just mine) as many of my friends with various degrees have been out of luck in finding a job as well. The good news is that things seem to be picking up, but still, it’s going to be hard for myself and others to get passed the hiring freeze that many companies seem to be stuck in as they readjust to smaller budgets and smaller staff. I’m keeping my head up though despite lower-than-normal wages and the constant stream of demoralizing family comments that come my way.
Laurel is the winner of CollegeHumor’s Hottest College Girl of 2009
April 23, 2009 @ 10:18 am
Laurel from the University of Delaware was just named America’s Hottest College Girl ‘09 by CollegeHumor and its voters. While certainly not ugly, I do find her somewhat unremarkable in her photographs. I’m beginning to think this competition only attracts a certain type of “pretty” individual.
Anyway, in my opinion, she’s not nearly as hot as last year’s winner.
Boston College to stop offering university email addresses
November 23, 2008 @ 3:58 pm
Boston College is doing something no other college that I know of is doing, and I think it’s incredibly smart and efficient for their student body. Boston College is doing away with their university email accounts and instead are offering students email forwarding service so that all university emails will be directed to their current email accounts.
I know I’m not the only one that thinks university email accounts are stupid. They are often unreliable, stupid-looking (in format and in user interface), and incredibly inconvenient to check when you’ve already got an active email address you use.
Many students don’t even want a college e-mail address these days because they already have well-established digital identities before they arrive on campus. That’s the conclusion that officials at Boston College came to in a recent review of their online services. So the college recently decided to stop offering full e-mail accounts to incoming students starting next fall.
Instead of a standard college e-mail account, next year’s freshmen will be offered an e-mail-forwarding service that will pass along messages to whatever personal e-mail account a student specifies, said Mary C. Corcoran, associate vice president for user and support services at the college. A student named John Smith might be given the address johnsmith@bc.edu, for instance, but the address will simply pass any incoming mail along to Mr. Smith’s Google mailbox, or to his Microsoft Hotmail, or to any other account the student might already have. The college currently runs such a forwarding service for alumni.
I would love it if more universities follow the same footsteps. University emails are just so stupid, especially when there’s virtually no advantage to using them over other email services.
All RA’s on the same floor
October 16, 2008 @ 4:14 pm
Hahaha, OMG, this CollegeHumor skit is hilarious. It shows what an entire floor at a college dorm might be like if all of the resident advisors (RA’s) were accidentally placed on the same floor.
Traditionally speaking, RA’s are the ones that try to get all of the “normal” students to go out and join school-wide activities that promote school spirit. They’re overly chirpy, kinda annoying, and definitely “always there when you need them”.
Ringling College of Art and Design Viewbook
October 9, 2008 @ 3:11 pm
A couple of weeks back, a friend told me about the Ringling College of Art and Design Viewbook that they use to recruit students into the school and how it was such a beautiful piece of work just by itself. I took a look at the RIngling College website and I was floored by the work that was being showcased. The school which is located in Sarasota, FL seems to be on the forefront of art and design with students who are creating work that is just stunning. I mean, even the viewbook, which is traditionally a piece of crap, is a work of art!
I have to say, the Ringling College of Art and Design viewbook is a welcome addition to my bookshelf. It’s not really a book of intellectual studies or anything like that, but it sure does give me inspiration page by page.
See more photos of the book after the jump.
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