When the economy and job market go down the tubes, there are two camps on traveling. One says you'd be absolutely crazy to splurge on hotels and air travel—grab your savings and bunker down in the house until the tide turns. But the other is a little more opportunistic: everything is on sale in a recession, the dollar is strong, and it's not like that job is coming anytime soon anyway.

Cara the Quarter-Life Cook joins the "Recipe of the Week" team from Big Girls, Small Kitchen, a food and recipe guide for twenty-something cooks looking for user-friendly, affordable ways to navigate their kitchens.

If you thought safe data storage was important in college, just wait until you're out in the "real world." Instead of backing up your term papers and "Best of" playlists, you suddenly find you've got files floating around in the ether that are literally priceless—like your "novel," a Word document titled "My 5-Year Plan," and the proprietary expense reports your boss asked you to guard with your

Until all the press came out about its recent publication as a paperback, we had never read the speech David Foster Wallace delivered at Kenyon College in 20

Phoebe the Quarter-Life Cook joins the "Recipe of the Week" team from Big Girls, Small Kitchen, a food and recipe guide for twenty-something cooks looking for user-friendly, affordable ways to navigate their kitchens.

Our intrepid Mexico correspondent reports live from the eye of the swine flu storm. Has isolation and paranoia driven him to madness? Or was he already insane? You be the judge...

Is it safe to come out yet?

Back in my days as a fellow at the NB Whaling Museum, I ate a simple meal with Klaus Bartlemus, the world's leading expert on whaling. Klaus was also an expert on eating odd foods. He'd consumed the eye of a sturgeon and a whole small bird. He offered to cook us dinner, and to my surprise offered a very simple dish... roast cod with cherry tomatoes.

Here at Gradspot, we make it our business to troll the Web for anything that can help readers with their transition to life after college. While our writers and guest bloggers have tons of tips, tricks, and jokes of their own, we know that there’s a lot of other great content out there to share

"FAKE!"

Since I moved to Paris, a few of my friends back home have labeled me an America-hater, or more specifically, a New York-hater.

Not true and not true!

I am tired of being accused of urban infidelity. I refuse to choose