May 3, 2005: Headlines: Recruitment: Job Hunting: Binghamton University Pipe Dream: Programs like the Peace Corps help students find themselves, do good for society and even pay off debt from college. For just a two-year commitment, you get all those things and a guarantee that you won’t be jobless and Zoloft-popping after you walk down the Events Center aisle.
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May 3, 2005: Headlines: Recruitment: Job Hunting: Binghamton University Pipe Dream: Programs like the Peace Corps help students find themselves, do good for society and even pay off debt from college. For just a two-year commitment, you get all those things and a guarantee that you won’t be jobless and Zoloft-popping after you walk down the Events Center aisle.
Programs like the Peace Corps help students find themselves, do good for society and even pay off debt from college. For just a two-year commitment, you get all those things and a guarantee that you won’t be jobless and Zoloft-popping after you walk down the Events Center aisle.
Programs like the Peace Corps help students find themselves, do good for society and even pay off debt from college. For just a two-year commitment, you get all those things and a guarantee that you won’t be jobless and Zoloft-popping after you walk down the Events Center aisle.
I can’t imagine
“I wish I could go back to college
In college you know who you are
You sit in the quad, and think ‘Oh my god,
I am totally gonna go far.”
—”I Wish I Could Go Back to College,” Avenue Q
We took a straw poll last night of graduating seniors among the mostly liberal arts majors on our editorial board. With the exception of our chief of newsroom technology, who has a cushy job waiting at an investment firm, we’re all homeless and jobless. And if you include him, it’s a Hobson’s choice between Office Space and homeless. That’s not what we thought on Move-In Day 2001.
We all come to college expecting to change the world, that we’d be doctors, lawyers and senators. Four years later, the reality sets in that most of us are destined to be keeping our red staplers away from mean managers.
So many people come away from college with mediocre jobs, far from the glory we were tacitly promised when we agreed to become Bearcats.
Underclassmen should read this editorial. The Career Development Center isn’t the best, but they do give good advice that not enough of us follow: find your own job and try to land your own internships. The University has demonstrated that they’re not going to get you a job. Not that it’s their responsibility, so you should know where to get a job that you like.
But part of the problem, as The Atlantic keenly observed, is that college is being used as something never intended: as a tool of social promotion and a job career fair. College, as intended as practiced here, is meant as a factory to churn out beginning scholars. But we all think that we’re going to get jobs with our diploma in hand. Then senior year comes along, and we realize that our dreams and hopes of being great amount to being Employee of the Month at some mediocre milquetoast company.
But there’s some hope.
Programs like Teach for America, NYC Teaching Fellows, the Peace Corps — even the United States military — help students find themselves, do good for society and even pay off debt from college. For just a two-year commitment, you get all those things and a guarantee that you won’t be jobless and Zoloft-popping after you walk down the Events Center aisle.
Too many people we know are working non-fulfilling jobs — that is, if they have jobs at all — and it’s sad.
Graduate school is looking real good right now.
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