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The Search for an Internship as Described by The Office

If you’re a college student, no matter what your major is, you probably want to have an internship as part of your academic career. By the time you’re a junior or a senior, you kind of sort of have an idea of what you’re interested in, and an internship is a great way to try things out. Finding and getting the internship, however, is a whole adventure in itself. It definitely comes with its set of challenges.   18) Knowing where to start is the hardest part. Where do you go? Should you look online? What websites? Should you talk to a career counselor? It’s just all so confusing.  17) You question whether you have enough on your resume, or if it looks professional enough. 16) All the job postings are intimidating with the qualifications and years of experience.   15) If you go the online route, you learn very quickly

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20 Skills You Need In College That No One Ever Taught You

Your high school teachers were supposed to prepare you with all the knowledge you’d need for college and for general adulthood too.  They tried their best, and so did your parents, but unfortunately there are tons of things a person needs to know that most of us don’t learn until long after we move into our first dorm room. These are all the skills you desperately need in college, but somehow never learned. 20. How to save money. It doesn’t just happen on its own, but it is an absolute necessity.  No matter how little you’re making at your minimum wage, part time job, you need to be saving some of it. 19. How to make helpful connections. You have to introduce yourself around and get to know everybody you can.  Build your network now, and by the time you graduate, you’ll have friends in all kinds of places. 18. How

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20 Skills They Told You You’d Need In College, But You Actually Don’t

When you were in high school, I’m sure your teachers talked constantly about how they were preparing you for college and teaching you the things you’d absolutely need to know when you got there.  A lot of the things you learned in high school certainly are necessary as a foundation of education, but some of the skills they pressed on you just aren’t as mandatory as they tried to tell you. They made you learn these things in high school so you’d be ready for college, but did you really need to?  If technology hasn’t made these skills obsolete, then odds are you never needed to know them in the first place. 20. Spelling. 19. Knowing the parts of a computer. 18. Knowing all the U.S. Presidents, in order. 17. The importance of using deodorant after vigorous exercise. If you didn’t already know this, was teaching it really going to do