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How to Dress "Business Casual"

By Jason Richards
4/28/08
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Despite being overly generic, umbrella terms for different styles of dress generally get the point across in a reasonably clear manner. When someone says “euro,” you immediately think tight pants, aggressive dress shirts, and unsafe amounts of hair gel. “Formal business” evokes jackets and ties for men

Customizing Yourself on the Job-Hunt

By Christopher Schonberger
4/25/08
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Beginning a cover letter by saying, “I can haz dream Job? My rezumez! let me showz u thm," may seem like self-sabatotage. But what if you’re applying for a position at a site called I Can Haz Cheezburger? Then perhaps you’ve just ingeniously separated yourself from the pack…

How Bad Is the Job Market for '08 Grads?

By Joan Mitchell
4/18/08
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If you’re an ’08 grad and your only firm plans for life after graduation are moving back home, don’t beat yourself up about it too much—at least you can blame the “economy” when your parents ask you why you don’t have a job yet.

Take the One-Year $1 Million Challenge

By Dan Marley
4/18/08
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How can you become a millionaire by the time you retire? Maybe you have a “million dollar idea” or are well on your way to rising up the ranks in the finance world. You’re on the right track, but it’s going to take some work

First Steps

By Tom Wiseman
4/11/08
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Gradiators, READY?!

So, you've already graduated (or are about to) and you can live through anything if Magic made it. Tired of hearing all that crap about "the best years of your life" being behind you

Mentors: Your Career's Guardian Angels

By Courtney McClellan
4/10/08
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How can career mentors even be compared to guardian angels? Well, I won’t get religious on you, but there do seem to be some similarities: both (in theory, at least) look after you and keep your best interests in mind. Mentors can offer you guidance in learning about your new job, navigating transitions at work

On Adderall

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9/16/08
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As many of you probably know, getting adderall on college campuses is easy. You just buy it from students with prescriptions for five bucks a pill.

In my case, I got my own prescription from the school psychiatrist, at U. Chicago’s

The Tao of Teaching: It Begins...

By Tom Wiseman
4/04/08
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Hi everyone.

My name is Tom Wiseman, I was born in Oxford a quarter of a century ago. I am about to embark upon an English teaching career which was born in a classroom on an Oxfordian

On Anime and Procrastination

By Cheddar Ted
4/03/08
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I was doing a bit of drawing on my flight back from Houston last weekend, and looking back I'm surprised to find that all my sketches were taking the form of sort of a peculiar genre...ANIME. I'm not so artistic, and I kind of gave up the lead pencil senior year of high school when

To My Homies Who Get Laid Off

By Cheddar Ted
4/02/08
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I'm not trying turn this into a finance blog – this isn't FREAKONOMICS – but it seems like a lot of the investment banks are going to be laying off a few doggers here and there, and I wanted to offer a word of advice to these people…or at least a word of solace.

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