Archive > April 2009

Odds and Ends: GOG

These last few weeks of class always drag on and on, don’t they? Final projects, final papers, final this and that and blah blah blah. But fret not, dear friends, for there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, and it’s all warm and pleasant and awesome. How are you going to spend your [...]

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A Fresh Dose of Optimism

David Leonhardt may have said it best: It’s time to work.
I was fortunate enough this past week to host the New York Times reporter on campus this past week during his student discussion and at the Associates Dinner.  Mr. Leonhardt writes a weekly Economics column in the Business Section of the New York Times, and [...]

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The Red Room

They wore no shoes and their bodies shook and swayed.  I stood up against a brick wall in a dark corner and silently stared, but I couldn’t help smile.  The music swelled, the base was strong, and my blood pumped like an electronic synth machine with everyone else’s.  I was at the Red Room on [...]

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Ah, to be young again…

We were surrounded. There was no escape. There was no hope.  
…We had gone back to middle school.
Groups, no herds, of giggling pre-teen girls filled the theater. They crowded all the seats and ran down the aisles, laughing and screeching as they went.
“We did this to ourselves,” my friend said in terror. “We came here on [...]

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Tough Times Never Last

Hello my hungry job enthusiasts!  Career Queen Kathy Green here to soften the blow the economy has given us all.  With the deepest economic recession of this generation, I know you are concerned-and even quite worried-about job prospects following graduation. 
I can definitely tell you there is a different approach you should take as you hunt [...]

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