When mascots graduate. #hoyas2013
"Also a word about the Internet: Old people like myself are terrified by their ignorance of it, which you can and should use to your advantage by saying things at your job like, “You don’t have a tumblr? Oh you should really have a tumblr. I can set you up with that."
— From John Green’s Commencement Address at Butler University (via rachelfershleiser)
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Tweet"Nearly half of the college graduates in the class of 2010 are working in jobs that don’t require a bachelor’s degree and 38 percent have jobs that don’t even require a high school diploma, according to a January report from the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. The report called into question whether too much public money is being spent on providing students with degrees that make them overqualified for the only jobs that are available."
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284,000 College Graduates Had Minimum-Wage Jobs Last Year (via robot-heart-politics)
Is it a commentary on the lack of value in higher education? Or is it about the job market not taking advantage of the talent surplus in the labor pool? Are there corporate, government, or entrepreneurial opportunities being missed because job creators are not taking risks?
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The Complete Family Tree Of College Mascots
If not complete, this is still a massive compilation.
Yesterday was a day of sophomore year roommates (14 years after sophomore year).
We spent mid-day at the DC state fair—where Liz’s pies were robbed in my humble opinion— with Kelly, Liz’s soph roommate.
And then we got to see my roommate Brian, and Heather and Evelyn’s, new house, where Brian took this adorable picture of Hugo and the back of Liz’s head!
This time 15 years ago, I was an 18-year old, about to embark on my journey as a Georgetown Hoya. Little did I know how long that journey would last!
And thanks to JanMichaelDC for bringing up this photo, from the freshman facebook… for the youngsters out there, this is what we relied on before Zuckerberg came along.
Highlights from the Beloit College mindset list.
As Liz and other faculty and staff get ready to welcome the class of 2016, here are a few of the more striking notes on this year’s “mindset list” from Beloit College.
- They have never seen an airplane “ticket.”
- There has always been football in Jacksonville but never in Los Angeles.
- Their folks have never gazed with pride on a new set of bound encyclopedias on the bookshelf.
- A significant percentage of them will enter college already displaying some hearing loss.
- They have lived in an era of instant stardom and self-proclaimed celebrities, famous for being famous.
- They have had to incessantly remind their parents not to refer to their CDs and DVDs as “tapes.”
- There have always been blue M&Ms, but no tan ones.’
- While the iconic TV series for their older siblings was the sci-fi show Lost, for them it’sBreaking Bad, a gritty crime story motivated by desperate economic circumstances.
- Pulp Fiction’s meal of a “Royale with Cheese” and an “Amos and Andy milkshake” has little or no resonance with them.
Congrats to Dan Porterfield, the newly-inaugurated 15th President of Franklin and Marshall College.
Chart of the Day: The amount that students owe quintupled between 2000 and 2011. For more, check out our MoJo College Guide.
Ouch — I guess I went to college at the right time!
On Campus, It’s One Big Commercial
This fall, an estimated 10,000 American college students will be working on hundreds of campuses — for cash, swag, job experience or all three — marketing everything from Red Bull to Hewlett-Packard PCs. For the companies hiring them, the motivation is clear: college students spent about $36 billion on things like clothing, computers and cellphones during the 2010-11 school year alone, according to projections from Re:Fuel, a media and promotions firm specializing in the youth market…
Companies from Microsoft on down are increasingly seeking out the big men and women on campus to influence their peers. The students most in demand are those who are popular — ones involved in athletics, music, fraternities or sororities. Thousands of Facebook friends help, too. What companies want are students with inside knowledge of school traditions and campus hotspots. In short, they want students with the cred to make brands seem cool, in ways that a TV or magazine ad never could…
It’s a good deal for the student marketers, who can earn several hundred to several thousand dollars a semester in salary, perks, products and services, depending on the company. But the trend poses challenges for university officials, especially at a time when many schools are themselves embracing corporate sponsorships to help stage events for students.
Facebook account as job asset. It makes sense for marketers in this sense, but will it impact students’ interactions on campus? Sometimes I really appreciate having gone to college in the pre-facebook era.
(Source: diadoumenos)
85% of New College Grads Moving Home
Time:
The kids are coming back home to roost.
Surprise, surprise, thanks to a high unemployment rate for fresh grads, many with diplomas fresh off the press are making a return to Mom and Dad’s place. In fact, according to a poll conducted by consulting firm Twentysomething, Inc, some 85% of graduates will soon remember what Mom’s cooking tastes like.
Times are undeniably tough. Reports have placed the unemployment rate for the under-25 group as high as 54%. Many of these unemployed graduates are choosing to go into higher education in an attempt to wait out the job market, while others will go anywhere – and do anything – for work. Meanwhile, moving back home helps with expenses and paying off student loans.
(via abcworldnews)
Colleges worry about always-plugged-in students
- It was supposed to be a quick diversion, Katie Inman told herself last week as she flipped open her laptop. She had two tests to study for, three problem sets due, a paper to revise. But within minutes, the MIT sophomore was drawn into the depths of the Internet, her work shunted aside. (via boston)
30 Rock last night: brilliant IMO.
Especially Pete and Jack reliving “college” at the end.
(photo via inothernews)
