Tweet As a college student, and in my last few years of high school, I would spend a lot of time worrying about pretty much everything. (Ok, so I still worry about everything.) When I was an undergrad student looking at graduate programs I would look up every single detail programs offered and then freak out about
Life Advice: Take Things One Step At a Time
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What it’s Like To Have an Epiphany About Your Dream Job
Tweet Of course I’m getting to the point in my life where I should be starting to have some idea what I want to be when I grow up. It’s funny that when I was a kid I wanted to be a veterinarian (ew, blood), then I wanted to be a singer (still want to be)
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Right Now, Life Feels Really Crazy
Tweet This is going to sound pretty corny, but if I had to choose a song to describe my life right now it would be ‘Crazy’ by Gnarls Barkley because I’m pretty sure I’m losing my mind. I’ve been thinking and trying to come up with something that sounds a bit more optimistic, but keep
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Broadening My Horizons for an Internship
Tweet So by now everyone knows that last week I was freaking out about grad school in general, and if you thought that was bad you should see me now (and I’m sure everyone signed on here to listen to me freak out too, right?) People (mostly Andrea and Cat) have been very patient with
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I’m Questioning Grad School
Tweet I’m sure each of us have something that we are unsure about, or worried about as we graduate from college and move on to what is supposed to be “the real world.” When I graduated I made the decision to go on to graduate school without much guidance aside from my father saying that
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I’ve Never Had a Mentor
Tweet The best thing about going to Syracuse University, is easily the number of opportunities you have to meet and learn from accomplished professionals both in and out of your field. Last week we had a public relations professional come talk about his last fifty years in the field. He structured his speech around the
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Don’t All 22-year-old’s Put Off Finding a Job by Going to Grad School?
Tweet I graduated from Oswego State last May and started to have a heart attack looking for a job about a year before that even happened. So I did what any rational 22-year-old would do… I took out $50,000 in loans so I could keep going to school and put off worrying about a job
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Introducing Cathy! Next Step Chronicle Blogger
Tweet Hello readers! I am currently a master’s student at Syracuse University studying public relations, and working in an office on campus. My undergraduate degree is in public relations and arts management, from Oswego State. I originally went into public relations wanting to work in the arts, but ended up realizing that there is so
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