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Appreciate where you are now

July 29, 2005 09:31 AM

I also reaffirmed my plans for teaching at University, since I taught over 100 18-year-old students, and learned the rudiments of lesson planning, grading etc. And though I could have done without the temp work, the humiliation of it is what made me withstand the even more excruciating process of applying for grad school—even when professors started to refuse to recommend me.... Lastly, remember the take home advice from the book Quarter-Life Crisis: If you’ve finished school, are living at home and feel caught in the catch-22 of wanting a challenging job but don’t have the experience for it, don’t know if you’re in the right job, are envious of friends who seem to be better off than you: remember that everyone feels like this at some point, even the financially secure ones in “stable” jobs.

Serial intern (a What Next Story)

May 25, 2005 09:49 PM

A few weeks ago, we posted the first in a series of stories we’re calling the What Next Stories—the unusual routes taken by Amherst graduates without a clear path at graduation. As Amherst magazines arrive in our mailboxes and we...

I graduated, what next?

May 12, 2005 07:41 PM

Via “send,” planworld reader Laurel Kilgour ‘03 notes, “It’s that time of the year again in which the plans from seniors turn into frantic freakouts about being jobless, directionless, or both.” And while it’s been a few years, we remember...

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