Finding Your Road

Trying to choose a major? Choose the answers that best describe you:

1. I enjoy learning most when I’m

a. working in a lab or in the field gathering data and conducting experiments.

b. reading articles and books related to my field of interest and writing about my own ideas.

c. practicing and refining my creative and artistic talents.

d. working through mathematical equations, problem sets, and other types of logic problems.
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Lost, or on an Odyssey?

Last week I spoke with a student who was a wreck. She was thinking of going into Teach for America. She wanted to travel. She was interested in doing something international and thinking maybe the Peace Corps. She wanted to work with people, helping them, but wasn’t sure just how. Mostly, she just didn’t want to get stuck in a job after graduating only to languish there until her dotage. She may be the poster child for the “odyssey years.”

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Dressed for Success

A question we hear almost daily is “What do I wear to an interview?”

The short answer…

This:

NOT this:

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Mixed Feelings

It’s hard to know how to feel this week. The news is filled with photos and stories of people all over the world celebrating the results of this historic election. Whether you are happy or disappointed in the choice we made for our next president, it is undeniable that his victory represents a new age in equality for this county, and the world celebrates this with us.

By contrast, we also passed Prop 8, which denies right to some of California’s citizens. Since my reach as director of Career Services is limited to the world of work and not politics, I use this week’s column to highlight some of the job search resources we offer that are especially relevant to the LGBT community.

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Grad Fair Week

A few weeks ago I wrote about what criteria to use to decide if you were a likely candidate for graduate or professional school. If you’re a senior and hoping to go in 2009-2010, the moment is upon you. I just learned that San Jose State is shortening its application period and I suspect they’re not the only ones. Articles I’ve been reading in the last week or so say it’s going to be a competitive year.

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