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Mentors: Your Career's Guardian Angels

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...

By Courtney McClellan on 4/10/08

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The Tao of Teaching: It Begins...

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...

By Tom Wiseman on 4/04/08

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On Anime and Procrastination

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...

By Cheddar Ted on 4/03/08

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To My Homies Who Get Laid Off

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. ...

By Cheddar Ted on 4/02/08

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April Fool's Day Roundup

In case you haven’t noticed, today is April Fool’s Day, or Poisson d’Avril as it’s known to the French. It’s a day on which it’s completely appropriate to treat people horribly in the name of laughter. I remember when I was 10 and I put saran wrap over my mom’s toilet...

By Christopher Schonberger on 4/01/08

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Hot Off the Presses: Record Number of Graduates Expected to Move Home in 2008

NEW YORK, NY, April 1, 2008—According to a report released last week by Monster.com, an unprecedented 95% of this year’s graduates are expected to move home after commencement. This marks a 35% increase from a prior survey conducted in 2005. ...

By Christopher Schonberger on 4/01/08

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R.I.P. Bear Stearns

Theodore Bressman, the editor of the Intern Memo, joins us to share his thoughts on the demise of the company that taught him most, if not all, of the things he knows about business. ...

By Theodore Bressman on 3/28/08

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What's the Best Law School? Depends Who You Ask...

If you are at law school or thinking of applying, you’ve probably spent some time poring over the U.S. News and World Report Law School Rankings. Well, it’s time to get one step ahead of the game—the legal blog Above the Law has leaked the 2009 rankings...

By Christopher Schonberger on 3/28/08

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Grad Watch on the NYT

We all love the The New York Times in our own unique ways. Some people enjoy buying the enormous Sunday edition, throwing away almost all of it, and then pretending to do the crossword while they drink Hoegaardens or...

By Christopher Schonberger on 3/27/08

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Boiling Points

Recently I've been spending an inordinate amount of time with this off-colored culinary savant. Yesterday, after whipping up a fresh pitcher of iced Green Tea, he said something that was very interesting...

By Cheddar Ted on 3/27/08

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