If you’ve looked around your mall, college town, or nearest big city lately, chances are you’ve seen a change in the types of new stores that have opened over the last few years. More and more stores with lower price points are in spaces vacated by their department store and designer boutique peers, and this trend is expected to continue into 2010.
Over the last month, it’s been widely rumored that Time magazine’s person of the year is once again, not going to be a person, but Twitter. Social media has taken the world by storm and has quickly become an essential networking and recruiting tool.
As savvy college girls, we’re trying to do everything we can to best position ourselves for when it comes time to search for a job or internship. But with the flood of career advice being thrown our way at all times from our parents, our professors, our career counselor, and our friends (to name a few), it’s hard to know what’s legit and what to skip.
“I had this guy leave me a voicemail at work, so I called him at home, and then he emailed me to my Blackberry, so I texted to his cell, and now you just have to go around checking all these different portals just to get rejected by seven different technologies. It’s exhausting!”- Drew Barrymore, He’s Just Not That Into You.
We all know that besides friends, parties, guys, and having a good time, college is supposed to be about “higher education”. As underclassmen, we sit through basic intro classes like Psychology, Calculus, Economics, and Writing. But not all classes are that bland.
No, I am not getting married.
It hasn't been a great week up in Syracuse. My roommate was diagnosed with H1N1 on Tuesday, and I've also been under the weather all week (but H1N1-free), so I'm planning on taking it easy this weekend by relaxing and watching movies.
