internship

If you're like most college students, you're probably receiving some type of financial aid. Much of your tuition may be covered by scholarships, grants, or other awards. However, we all know that there are daily expenses that scholarships and grants simply don't cover. Nearly every college...

The headline is glowing with goodwill. "Jobless and homeless, bloggers scores Elle job," it reads. The first paragraphs are heavy with the conscious potential: could this be the next ripped-from-the-headlines romantic comedy? "Six months ago, Brianna Karp found herself living in an old truck and...

So I've had a few days to digest the latest job-loss data. Parsed one way and the numbers actually don't seem all that bad. An official rate of 9.4 percent, a .1 improvement over the month before, this could almost be the start of something, no? Of course, then you gnaw into the next couple of data...

Teenagers and college students have the time to become acclimated with their chosen field, and because of this, the search for summer internships is on the rise. However, students are faced with low availability or the other alternative – the unpaid internship. At this point the decision...

Even though these men and women are first and foremost legislators who shape the face of our legal system; many of us take for granted the "little" things they can do for us. I know up until a year ago I had only a faint notion of what my congressman did outside of legislating, but that all changed...

Of the many things that I find overrated, the single most highly overrated item has to be the college grade point average (GPA). Yep, that two-digit number that we slave over for four years, carefully weighing which classes we can skip and which justify an all-nighter, is, in the long run, worth...

A piece (subscription required) in today's Wall Street Journal discusses a wonderful trend that is emerging: go-getter college students coming up with their own internship ideas and then pitching them to non-profits and corporations.I love this. There's something sort of repugnant about college...