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Cover Letters From the Other Side
Reading Time: ~5 minutes It wasn’t a long drive to Company X’s building, but it was a complicated one that involved a dubiously legal U turn and toll booths that seemed decorative at best. I also got to tour some of West-Of-Boston’s finest pseduo-highways, resplendent in pothole magnifience. I remember the first time I felt…
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Why Major in Humanities?
Reading Time: ~3 minutes Last year, when Math majors were struggling with a series to complete their Senior Thesis, I quietly laughed and wrote another short story. But, a year later, maybe the joke was on me. Really, I can’t tell. I’ve got a job, so I’m more fortunate than most (since 56% of my class…
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Bachelor’s Degrees: A Dime A Dozen
It was March 2010 and I was sitting in one of the uncomfortable, steel chairs of my college’s study hall, looking at the decomposing scraps of snow on the sidewalks below and tapping my finger like a metronome against the mouse. Every now and then, I would gaze at the cover letter on the screen…
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Generation Generalization: Millennials Are The Same As You
Reading Time: ~5 minutes It didn’t start with the amazingly anecdotal “What Is It About the Twentysomethings?” published in The New York Times last August – which featured a nauseating collage of scrawny young kids that looked like the results of a 12th grade art project – but this sure as hell made it official. Don’t get involved, I…
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