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New York Times Recommends Going Back to School Since You've Got Zero Job Prospects

New York Times Recommends Going Back to School Since You've Got Zero Job Prospects

The New York Times is saying what we've all suspected: it may be time to go back to college, even if you’ve already got a degree. With the unemployment rate currently at 6.7% and 10.3 million Americans unemployed, it's pretty tough finding a job, no less a good one.

 

Then there are also the sweet memories of keg stands, Undie Runs, and football...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: Be careful of the recruitment firm MRINetwork. They have a track record of misrepresenting the truth. For years they represented someone as a regular franchised MRI Network office when h

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New York Times Details Rich People Celebrating the Recession

New York Times Details Rich People Celebrating the Recession

There’s nothing quite so irritating as privileged people not realizing that they’re privileged during the recession, like those people that are soooooo devastated at having to sell their vacation homes in the Hamptons. Recently, the New York Times covered a bunch of these Joe Six Figures in an article in which it was stated, “With Wall Street he...

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Letter to the New York Times: Let Me Teach You How to Drink

Letter to the New York Times: Let Me Teach You How to Drink

Dear New York Times,

 

If there are two things I love in this world they’re the New York Times and a good strong drink. A Sunday without the Times and a Bloody Mary!? Oxymoron. A workday without the Times and whatever can be hidden under my desk!? Oxymoron. Yet somehow the conflation of my favorite paper and my favorite emotional/mental/caloric ...

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The New York Times Discovers Hooking Up

The New York Times Discovers Hooking Up

Let me start by saying this: I admire Charles Blow. But he was obviously strapped for something to write about this week, writing a none-too-profound article called “The Demise of Dating.” In said article, he discovers the cultural phenomenon of “hooking up,” which Tom Wolfe wrote “was a term known in the year 2000 to almost every American child...

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New York Times Film Makes You Want to Wrap it Up

New York Times Film Makes You Want to Wrap it Up

On Sunday, the New York Times released its Screens Issue and with it, a short film of creepy little gamer kids that will make you remember to always wear a condom. There are a lot of open-mouthed stares, sinister laughs at gun shots, beastly grunts, and cries of ecstatic gaming joy in Immersion. The kids look like possessed little freaks that mi...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: i'm not going to lie... i'm disturbed

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My Bad: Princeton Review Reveals Secret Info

My Bad: Princeton Review Reveals Secret Info

Whoops! The Princeton Review made a slight mistake when they accidentally published confidential information about tens of thousands of Florida students on its website.
 

Don’t worry though-- the information was only up there for seven weeks. Seven weeks???

 

 

According to the New York Times,
 

A flaw in configuring the site allowed anyone to ...

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Students At Risk For Hearing Loss

Students At Risk For Hearing Loss

Pull out those iPod earbuds because we’re all at risk for hearing loss. A study was just released that suggests that hearing loss is at an all-time high. The Debbie Downer of this study is that problem is affecting our age group more than anyone else. So stop making fun of your 80 year old grandpa because you’ll soon join him sporting hearing ai...

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Fresh Cream: All the News We Missed

Fresh Cream: All the News We Missed

Co-ed Magazine’s Hunter College blogger, Andrew, broke down Obama and McCain’s tax proposals into simple terms that all college students can understand.

 

Over at College Humor, an NYU student outlined the seven types of smokers with the help of snazzy visual aids.

 

The Pre Req reported that a Central Michigan University student hung four noose...

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Battle of the Sexes in Science: Title IX Dispute

Battle of the Sexes in Science: Title IX Dispute

The New York Times reported that Title IX, offering gender parity in academic institutions, will be extended to the field of science.

 

As discussed earlier this year, women are not as visible in the fields of physics and chemistry. There have been efforts to draw more women into these fields, but they aren't necessarily interested in taking job...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: Here's a question - why not start applying Title IX to nursing, social work, or education? If we start arbitrarily limiting the number of women from the fields they want because of their gender, then may

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Brown and Nasty

Brown and Nasty
“Last night at Thomas Friedman's Brown University talk about the economic and foreign policy implications of green technology, The New York Times columnist got an unexpected surprise: a pie in the face. After the incident, Friedman initially continued his speech before going backstage for a brief period to clean himself off. He eventually return

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