3 Economic Principles You Can Apply to Your Life
Time to rewind back to Economics 101. The beautiful topic of Economics is based on the principal of scarcity: we have a limited amount of time and resources available to us and must make...
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Career Confession: I HATE Unprofessional Emails
Non-capitalized subject lines, an improper greeting, the use of “LOL” or any other form of Internet/text message slang, emoticons, lack of punctuation, attachments with no content in the email body, and mass marketing emails...
Finishing Finals Without A Job? Here’s What To Do Next
The end of university is a time to celebrate your achievements and mourn the end of what was most likely a brilliant few years. Yet as celebrations come to the end, the future can...
5 Reasons Why You Should Look Forward To Life After College
Life After College: Downhill? It is repeatedly stated that university will be the best years of your life. But, never fear, life is not all downhill after 3 years in student digs struggling through...
4 Steps to Knowing Yourself Better
Of course, it’s impossible to know yourself completely. We’re human, always changing, always moving forwards towards new things and new versions of ourselves. But it is possible to know yourself to some extent, and the...
5 Ways The Internet Is Killing Us
The internet is the enemy. I hate to be the one to romanticize the good ol’ days. That is a sure sign that one is no longer a spring chicken, but instead an, uh,...
4 Tips To Start a Business From a Woman Who Knows
I had the great opportunity to sit down with Melinda Emerson recently, and pick her brain about how to start a business. If your dreams involve being your own boss one day, you’re going...
How Weekend Productivity Can Lead to Success
My day yesterday was the epitome of a “lazy Sunday.” While I did laundry, made dinner and washed some dishes, I honestly just sat around in sweats and switched back and forth between football...
It’s not about the money… or is it?
A few months back, a coworker and I were baking in the D.C. heat and humidity as we walked a few blocks to grab lunch. We were especially chatty and began to discuss all...
Career Confession: My life is monotonous
When I accepted a job offer after graduation, I was so excited that I would be getting rid of the late night paper writing for a 9-5 routine with all kinds of other benefits....