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‘Altruism Meets a Weak Job Market’Friday July 04th 2008, 4:08 pm Filed under: Life, Post-College

‘Altruism Meets a Weak Job Market’

According to the Wall Street Journal, recent college grads are giving up on trying to find a decent job in the currently crappy job market, and are opting instead to spend a year or two working and/or volunteering for one of the following world-improvement organizations:

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Listening. I think one needs to practice a lot with the CD’s(with the workbook) because they simulate a lot the real exam. You need a lot of focus because the recording was played only once, what helped me a lot were the advice of reading ahead the questions(taking note of what type of questions ex. asking for a direction, a place,time, a person) before a recording was played. I noticed that although some questions can be filled in (the Read more

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Smart Girls Are HotWednesday August 01st 2007, 4:23 pm Filed under: College, Gender

My daughter doesn’t have math homework yet, but I’ve already staked out helping her with it as my exclusive territory. Fortunately, my husband was a political science major, so he’s totally fine with “letting” me be in charge of all math and science-related aspects of our kids’ education. He will be in charge of teaching them how to turn boring Read more

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