Lifestyle

How to Simplify Your Life With RSS

November 17, 2009
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You’ve been around the internet block.You’ve made it through the ping-ping-beep-bop-bop that is dial-up internet, the impossibly slow download and upload speeds, the advent of blogging, video streaming and tons of other bells and whistles that make the modern day entity of the internet so amusing. So what is that little orange icon you’ve been [...]

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Does Your Undergrad Major Matter?

November 16, 2009
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Here is another post by our friend Jane Park. Jane is a recent college grad, and has some great insight/humor on the subject of whether or not your undergraduate major matters. Enjoy the post! There’s no time that flies by like college.  Running on 10 hours of sleep and juggling missed classes with work, friends, [...]

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Build Your Life Around Principle

November 13, 2009
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Recently, I read the book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People“, and was really moved by what Stephen Covey had to say. It is an inspirational and powerful work, and I really encourage everyone to buy a copy of the book for themselves at some point in their lives. I’m not really going to [...]

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Overcoming The Blasé: Los Angeles’s ‘Other” Basketball Team

November 12, 2009
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I hope all of you had a productive Veterans Day. For me, a friend of mine invited me to go watch an NBA game at the hallowed Staples Center, home of the world champion Los Angeles Lakers, out of the blue. The problem is we were going to watch the Los Angeles Clippers play the [...]

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How to Keep Your Postgraduate Mind Sharp: Join a Book Club!

November 10, 2009
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If you’re not careful, your mind can easily go downhill after college. It shouldn’t be surprising; even if you’re jumping into a career right out of college, everything you learn from then on has to do with your specialization. If you don’t deliberately challenge your mind to work in different ways, you’ll get so used [...]

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Mia & Me – How Dog Obedience School Made Me A Better Person!

November 6, 2009
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I’ve got an 11-month old German Shepherd/Labrador mix that I adopted from a friend. Her name is Mia and she’s absolutely…impossible sometimes. She’s also gotten pretty big, pretty fast. Not surprising given her stock, but the problem lies in that she’s a puppy stuck in a big dog’s body. She’s impulsive, reckless, always hungry, always [...]

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“Ride A Cow, Find A Horse” – A Practical Approach To Pursuing Your Dreams

November 5, 2009
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Our second guest post comes from our friend Marty Yan, author of Yan Can Write and an all-around good guy.  His post is about a particular insight he received when he finally listened to what his parents were saying all along. It is an interesting experience to be raised in a Chinese home. (Then again, [...]

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10 Worthwhile Postgrad Hobbies to Consider Pursuing

November 4, 2009
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After graduating college, it’s more than worthwhile to take up a fun and exciting hobby. A good hobby will keep the transitional stress you experience after graduation mostly at bay, and doing something exhilarating that doesn’t require sitting in front of a computer/excel/intense labor will help keep you sane. With that being said, here are [...]

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5 Ways World of Warcraft Helps Motivate Me to Real Life Success

November 3, 2009
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If you’ve been reading The Postgrad from the beginning, you will have noticed a couple times we’ve given people who play World of Warcraft a.k.a WoW a hard time. We only do so because both Sam and I personally understand the nuances of watching multiple aspects of your life come to a standstill because of [...]

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5 Reasons Why Debt Consolidation May Be a Good Choice

November 2, 2009
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After graduating college, most of us have piled up a considerable amount of debt. Some of us were lucky to have parents who could cover the costs of college education. Most of us, however, were not so fortunate. Pulling out loans definitely seems harmless enough, but 4 years of college (and even more if you’re [...]

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