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May 17, 2012

What Are The Best Cities To Move To After Graduation?

So you’ve graduated, don’t plan to move home, and now are looking for a new city to settle into and tackle the real world.

What are the best cities for new graduates? Well according to Rent.com, Austin, Texas comes in as #1 on the list with unemployment at a low 6% and the top industries being technology, pharmaceutical and biotechnology.

What other cities made the list?

Houston, Dallas, Boston, Baltimore, Raleigh, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Seattle, Washington D.C.

Check out the full post here on the best cities to move into:

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/10-best-cities-for-new-graduates.html

And lastly, if you’re graduating this June, be sure to order your graduation stoles soon to save on rush shipping fees.

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May 15, 2012

Dieting and Eating Well for Graduation Tips?

In life, there’s often a handful of days and occassions where we really try to eat healthy for. There’s your wedding (or your friend’s/family’s), that spring break Hawaii/Cabo trip, and then there’s graduation.

So if you’re looking for ways to trim down before graduation, check out this post on Syattfitness.com.

Our favorite tip from the post?
“My favorite fruits while dieting are strawberries, watermelon, and oranges. I usually end up freezing and making them into some type of dessert along with Greek Yogurt and a protein powder.”

Do you have dieting or nutrition tips? Share them with us!

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May 13, 2012

The Valedictorian Title… No More At Certain Schools?

In a recent article on AZCentral.com, the article mentions certain school districts taking away the Valedictorian title and no longer honoring it.

One of the main reasons being:
“Many students now take classes online, or transfer from other districts or states, he said, making it increasingly difficult to decide how to weight grades to determine a fair class rank.”

While the article does make many good points about the valedictorian status, and instead honoring the top 1 %, 2% or 10% of class, it seems to be a touchy subject for many parents (who commented on the article).

One of the top voted comments reads:
“Not honoring the top student is a nutty idea that was probably thought of by the parents of students near the top of the class.”

What are your thoughts on the situation? Do you feel the top student should be honored or just the top percentage of graduating students?

Also, if you’re graduating in June, it’s not too late to order your graduation stoles. Order soon and save on shipping costs.

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May 12, 2012

Does Music Define You?

For the majority of us, we grew up listening to certain bands and artists through high school and college. Personally for me, the bands that I remember listening to while going to school, and still today include Green Day, Cold Play and The Beastie Boys. There was also Third Eye Blind, but that might be a bit too old for most of today’s college grads!

Today we wanted to share a cool tribute video to MCA of the Beastie Boys.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the Beastie Boys, their friends and families.

May 11, 2012

Plastic Water Bottles

So over the past few years, the big push was to move from from disposable plastic bottles to regular plastic bottles. And then from those came the super popular metal water canisters… And then came the reusable glass bottles.

A lot of this was sparked by the BPA studies about chemicals going into your water. But how much of that is true?

InFactVideo covers this issue in a 3 minute video that might have you rethinking what really is true and what isn’t.

May 9, 2012

Traveling after College Graduation

Today’s post comes from PicktheBrain.com. It’s about building self-confidence. If you haven’t already read the post, we’d recommend checking it out. http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/7-smart-ways-to-build-self-confidence/

The post provides a handfull of tips on how to build your self-confidence. Of those, #1 stuck out to us the most as it related to travelling.

“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

Traveling is one of those big things that often times college grads just don’t do. Whether it was a decision to NOT study abroad to graduate on time, or join the work force the week right after graduation, often times travel plans get postponed, and never happen.

One of our biggest tips on building self confidence would be to travel, and travel by yourself. Do it at least once in your life. You’ll feel a sense of freedom and relieve.

Ways to travel on a budget? Check out Contiki.com or Airbnb.com.

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May 9, 2012

National Teachers Day

For those who missed it, did you know today, May 8th was National Teachers Day?

If you haven’t already, it’s not too late to send a quick letter, email, tweet or facebook message to some of the teachers who made the biggest impact in your lives. Whether it was the subject you hated, or the subject you loved, these teachers likely made an impact on your life that has brought you that much closer to graduation date.

Here’s more background about the day.

http://www.good.is/post/national-teacher-day-gives-us-a-chance-to-say-thanks/

And even if you’re reading this long after the date, what’s stopping you from sending a letter?

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May 7, 2012

The Little Things In Life

Today’s post was inspired by a recent post on Wisebread.com that covered fun things you could do with $50. http://www.wisebread.com/50-great-things-to-do-with-50

One of the recommendations we liked the best was #12:

“Make Goodies Boxes for Your Neighbors – Buy all the ingredients you need to make several batches of cookies or muffins, plus boxes, bags, baskets, and ribbons to make a nice presentation to give to your neighbors.”

Bringing this back to college students, this could easily be applied to graduating seniors and a great idea for graduting fraternity brothers or sorority sisters.

Fun Ideas for Fraternity Gifts
Wine
Tie
Graduation Stoles
Cufflinks
Beef Jerky
Photo / Photo Album from Greek days

Fun Ideas for Sorority Gifts
Business Card Holders
Graduation Sashes
Flowers
Earrings
Candy
Gum
Perfume / Lotions
Photo / Photo Album from Greek days

Also, check out this great TedTalk on how to buy happiness.


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May 6, 2012

Frozen Foods & Eating Healthy

For those who have read our blog for a while, you know that we often like to cover college hacks and kitchen hacks to help you save time and eat healthier and smarter.

Today’s post features a recent article on LifeHacker about frozen food and the concept of “reinventing it”

What exactly does that mean? Well from a financial perspective, going with frozen food isn’t always the most cost effective. Some meals can cost you $5 or more, and in terms of contents, not provide much nutritional value either.

Take for example the frozen pizza, as lifehacker says
“One of the biggest wastes of money is frozen pizza. It seems cheap because delivery pizza costs about twice as much, but if you’re only feeding yourself you don’t need an entire pizza in one sitting.”

True!

So, what are the tips? For me personally when I’m buying frozen food, I’m looking for options where I can add fresh ingredients. Take for example Lean Cuisine meals. Adding in some fresh tomatos to the pasta or rice dishes goes a long way to keeping me more full and healthier.

Don’t have time to keep fresh produce in your refridgerator? Go for the frozen vegetables route. Often you can find vegetable medleys in the supermarket and picking up a bag or two of these could last you for week.s

Now if you’re a big fan of rice dishes, one of the recommendations is to grab a slow cooker. This will help you slow cook foods overnight and then wallah! Have food ready for the following day.

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May 5, 2012

Fun Graduation Speeches

The first weekend of May generally marks the start of graduation season. With that, we bring you some of our favorite commencement speeches. Do you have any favorite graduation speeches? Here are our top 3 that we like the best from commencement ceremonies.

Conan O’Brien at Dartmouth College

Steve Jobs at Stanford

Professor Randy Pausch

And this fun musical one of course!