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We just wanted to take this time to really thank all of our customers for making this such a successful graduation season for us! Without you, we really wouldn’t be here. We’re also really happy to announce (*knock on wood) that this season, we have had 0 missed deadlines and had 0 late deliveries with our graduation stoles.
We wish you all the best with the career paths you choose and hope you enjoy your summer!
With that said, we recently found a few interesting posts around the internet. Most specifically there was one post written specifically for graduating seniors at the GetRichSlowly Blog, “Life After School: Advice for New Graduates.” The post is filled with great tidbits of information, from financial advice to career and time management tips. Not too long of a read, and definitely worth a look.
One point that we particularly liked was:
Treat your time as an investment. It’s more important to invest your time wisely than to invest your money wisely.
Time is such an important factor in the “real world” because your life isn’t dictated by term papers and finals. It will be a big adjustment as you will see, and if you are taking on a 9-to-5 job, no doubt the amount of free time you have to hang out with friends will drop. Spend it wisely and enjoy! Need some motivation for time management? Check out the 4-Hour Workweek.
Besides that, in case you are afraid your graduation speaker will be boring, check out Graduation Wisdom for some inspirational graduation speeches and did you know Barack Obama will be giving a speech at Wesleyan?!
Talk about a weird story, it seems that many students from McKinney High School in Texas got more than they bargained for from this year’s yearbooks.
School officials say they are appalled by altered photos - including heads on different bodies - in hundreds of McKinney High School yearbooks delivered this week.
Besides the head and body switching, some necks were stretched, one girl’s arm was missing, and another girl’s head was placed on what appeared to be a nude body, with the chest blurred.
Full story about the yearbook photoshop fiasco (Yahoo! News). We hope they get the revised version printed and back in time! If there’s one thing great about high school yearbooks, it was the last 10 minutes of each class period where teachers would let you sign them! Not to mention BFFs reserving full pages in your yearbook to write “Have A Great Summer!”
Most of these are pretty common knowledge, like Google, Wikipedia & About.com but there were a few particular ones that not so many people may know about.
So for those of you about to tackle your research or term paper, best of luck! For some inspiration, check out this YouTube video of a guy finishing his 16-page term paper in 36 hours.
We thought this comic was too funny not to post and just a reminder to never lose that drive after graduation.
If there’s one thing that I remember from my own commencement ceremony, it was when our chancellor (or was it the keynote?) said “Commencement is not the end, but rather the beginning. That is why it is called commencement.”
Scary? We agree! Google is also doing the same. Just another reason to think twice before setting your default profile picture! Last thing you’d want is your future boss to google your name and come up with an image of you doing a senior year keg stand at your graduation party
PhotoJojo recently featured a really interesting article about Long Portraits.
The idea behind these is to ask someone a simple question, like How was your day? or what’s the most exciting thing you did this week? etc. From that, record their 30-second response.
What a simple yet unique task! Now put the entire graduation or Greek spin to it and think about how your house historian can do this. Imagine how awesome this archive would be, in say 3 years… with every member of your house and it continually growing! Think down the road… 5 years from now, how even more awesome it would be!
We all know Greeks love pictures (and matching shirts…) but video adds such a unique new spin to your chapter’s records and an interesting way to get to know actives and alumni.
So our challenge to any chapters is to do a recording of all the seniors on your active roster, just a fun 30-second clip. Do this, post it on YouTube, send us the links, and we’ll give 5 lucky chapters 25% off their order for graduation stoles.
Official Rules:
There must be at least 6 seniors graduating from your chapter and long portraits recorded of those 6 seniors. 25% off discount will be applied to the same # of long portraits as graduation sashes ordered.
Videos of seniors must be separate similar to PhotoJojo’s Long Portrait style video.
Nothing scandalous, please!
At least 2 seniors have to mention YourSash.com!
Entries should be emailed to orders[at]yoursash.com with links to the videos and contact information!
The first 5 chapters who submit videos that meet these criteria will receive 25% off their standard sash order (no logos or custom fabrics)!
photo courtesy Joe Shlabotnik Today we wanted to feature 2 different posts.
The first one, Graduating Into A Recession comes from BusinessWeek.com. While the focus of the article is on those graduating from business school, it reiterates some important points that also apply to undergrads.
The 2 points we liked the most were:
1. The importance of networking and building up contacts.
2. Having a backup plan, or two.
The 2nd part of our post comes from Professor Randy Pausch.
If you haven’t heard of his remarkable story yet, please take a read/listen at ABCNews.
Check out his most recent lecture at the University of Virginia. It is long, but more than filled with great tidbits on time management that any senior or person in general should consider.
We decided to mix it up a little and go with a new theme for our The Super Senior Blog.
Does it look familiar? Because it’s designed after facebook.
Hope you like!
Reminder for all seniors graduating in April or May, you want to put in your order ASAP to avoid rush charges and to make sure that your graduation stoles come in on time!
photo courtesy Damek
So if you aren’t already in Cancun, Mexico sipping on margaritas and partying out to MTV cameras, we figured you might be interested in doing something a little more productive over spring break.
Here is a short list of 3 recommendations. They aren’t necessarily fun, but hey…better to do it now than when you’re back in the stress of school and thinking about graduation.
3 Productive Things To Do During Spring Break
3. Trash & Rewrite Your Resume. Lifehacker.com has a great article about this, take a read at why you should trash and rewrite your resume.
2. Build your LinkedIn profile. Not sure what that is? Check out an older post of ours about 5 Ways You Can Stand Out from Other Graduating College Seniors.
1. Subscribe to and start reading blogs in the industry you’re looking to find a job in. If you don’t already use an RSS Reader, check out Google Reader for RSS feeds. Once you get the hang of RSS feeds, you’ll wonder how you lived without them! Blog Catalog is a great place to search for blogs you might be interested in. Look at what we found when we did a search for politics or music.
ABC’s Greek returns today to begin season 2. If you don’t remember this show, it brought about a lot of negative press and concerns from the Greek community last year because of it’s portrayal of us. Since then, the commotion has died down and there hasn’t been much negative press about the show.
What is the show Greek about you ask?
The show follows the story of Rusty, a college freshman attending the fictional Cyprus-Rhodes University, who longs to leave behind his reputation as a high school geek by joining a fraternity, while sister Casey hopes for little interference with her enjoyment of Greek life. Most of the characters belong to either the fictional fraternities Kappa Tau Gamma (ΚΤΓ) and Omega Chi Delta (ΩΧΔ), or the fictional sorority Zeta Beta Zeta (ΖΒΖ).
(wikipedia)
So, if you have some time this evening and are interested in ABC’s portrayal of Greek life, check out Greek! The new season premieres tonight (March 24th) at 8/7c.
