This is Seth Godin’s new phenomenal ebook, “What Matters Now” Seth Godin brought together 70 visionaries (anywone from bestselling writer Elizabeth Gilbert to technology mastermind Gina Trapani), to come up with ideas for where we’re heading to 2010. This is a really knockout book, and obviously it’s for free. It’s for you to spread, if you find it useful.
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College Tip: Criticism and Feedback
Oftentimes you will be in situations where you must give critical feedback. This could be within a group situation, giving feedback on a presentation, or receiving feedback from a professor or teacher’s assistant.
Dorm Essentials: Make Healthy Foods
Packing for college? If you have room, consider a portable electric grilling machine. When at college stock up on veggies or say a chicken breast you can grill.
College Essentials: Renters Insurance
At college, you might need some renters insurance. Check with your parents/guardian as to having a rider put on their household insurance plan.
College Life Tips: Driving and Cellphone Use
College Life Tips suggests you DO NOT use your cellphone while driving-ever! Pull over, put the car in park, then use your phone. According to The New York Times, extensive research shows the dangers of distracted driving. Studies say that drivers using phones are 4 times as likely to cause a crash as other drivers, and the likelihood that they will crash is equal to that of someone with a .08% blood alcohol level, the point at which drivers are generally considered intoxicated.
College Life Tips: Community Colleges Get Some Respect
With jobs being lost in the auto industry and elsewhere, associate degrees from community colleges are a great way to learn new skills and prepare yourself to work within the new businesses and industries developing as our economy changes. In the coming years, jobs requiring at least an associate degree are projected to grow twice as fast as job requiring no college experience.
