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CIG 006: Finding A Job You Love With Barrett Brooks

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Podcast

CIG Podcast 006:

Finding a Job You Love

With Barrett Brooks

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Barrett Brooks

So many students state their main college goal as “getting a job”. Often, that’s all there is to it. They just want a job.

But what about finding a job you truly love?

That’s the idea I explore in this week’s podcast interview with my friend Barrett Brooks. Barrett is the founder of Living For Monday, a blog dedicated to helping people find jobs that matter and live their lives to the fullest potential.

Barrett also created Career Kickstarter, a full online course built to teach students the entire process for finding (and landing) the job they’ll love. I’ve checked out Career Kickstart myself and I love the content Barrett has created there.

In this episode, Barrett tells his story of how he went from having a not-so-good first year in college to completely turning his life around for the better. He talks about how he landed a consulting position with a company that didn’t even want to hire grads from his school, and then how he went on to become a full-time entrepreneur. Read More →

14 Hard-Hitting Reasons Why You Must Start A Blog In College

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Communication
14 Hard-Hitting Reasons Why You Must Start A Blog In College

If you’re not currently hooked up to an iron lung, you’ve probably heard and followed these two classic pieces of advice:

  • Never get involved in a land war in Asia
  • Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line

These are fantastic pieces of wisdom to keep in mind if you’re currently interested in not dying. I would also add to the list, “Press X to not die.”

If you’ve already got the whole not dying thing down, and are now looking to do things like impress recruiters, build your resume, and learn new skills, then I have another piece of advice:

You need to start a blog.

Almost six years ago, Kelly Sutton (the guy who started HackCollege), posted an article about his own college blogging experience. The title should be a clear message – Want a Job? Start a Blog. Here’s the main takeaway…

“A well-formed blog is like a resume that’s constantly updating itself” Tweet This

My experience reflects this quote perfectly.

Here are my top 14 reasons why you should start a blog while you’re still in college. Read More →

Adobe’s Battle For The Band Contest: Design Something Cool, Win A Concert For Your School

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Announcements
Adobe’s Battle For The Band Contest: Design Something Cool, Win A Concert For Your School

I always like seeing things that have the potential to motivate students to start designing things and build a portfolio. That’s why I want to direct your attention to a contest that’s currently being put on by Adobe.

Dubbed the “Battle for the Band” contest, students can submit graphic design entries for a chance to win a full-blown concert for their school with All Time Low.

Now, I’d be pretty pumped to be known as the person who got All Time Low to play a show at my school. However, it’s the second-place prize that interests me more - $1,000 cash. Not to say that a concert isn’t cool or anything, but having a grand in your pocket could be pretty useful – you could easily put a big dent in your student loans, or get a better laptop, or something. Read More →

CIG 005: Why Your Education Costs $88,000 instead of $1.50

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Podcast

CIG Podcast 005:

Why Your Education Costs $88,000 instead of $1.50

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Yeah, I said it – you’re wasting $87,998.50 on your education.

Or are you?

What are we really paying for when we buy a college education, or an expensive information product? That’s the question I tackle in this episode of the College Info Geek podcast.

The reality is that today, you can learn pretty much anything you want for free. There are so many resources around you that offer information on just about any subject – we’ve got libraries, Google, Wikipedia, tons of training sites, forums, and more.

And yet, we still spend thousands and thousands of dollars – why? Besides the ancillary benefits of college – the social status and credentials that a degree provides, the “opportunities to make connections”, what is it about college that’s so appealing? Read More →

Make A Personal Website – Step-By-Step Video Tutorial

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Computers
Make A Personal Website – Step-By-Step Video Tutorial

As a student, one of the most important things you can do to market youself and impress recruiters is building a personal website.

Building my online presence though my personal website and other social media accounts has allowed me to connect with other amazing people, travel the country for free, and even make enough money to pay off a ton of my student debt while still in school.  I simply can’t stress enough how beneficial it can be.

In March of 2012, I wrote a post called The Ultimate Guide to Building a Personal Website. This guide has become one of the most popular posts on College Info Geek, and has been viewed over 23,000 times.

However, a lot of people asked me if I could make a video tutorial to go along with the guide. Well, now I have!

In this video, I show you, step-by-step, how to create your own personal website in less than 10 minutes. Read More →

12 Reasons Why It Might Be A Good Idea To Take Out A Private Student Loan

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Money
12 Reasons Why It Might Be A Good Idea To Take Out A Private Student Loan

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How To Learn More Outside Of Class Than You Ever Could Inside It

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Studying, The Best Stuff
How To Learn More Outside Of Class Than You Ever Could Inside It

I’m going to give you a list of seemingly random things, and I want to you try and guess how they’re related. Ready? Here we go:

  1. Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) is a feature in iOS 5 that allows the compiler to do memory management automatically, so you don’t have to.
  2. Out of all high school students that graduate in the bottom 40 percent of their class, 76 percent will not will not have a college degree within eight years.
  3. しんぶんでしたか？ いいえ、しんぶんじゃりません。いちごでした。

Give up? I know, I know – these things seem totally random. And to you, they absolutely are. There’s nothing that concretely binds them. So what’s the relation?

Simple – they’re all things I learned yesterday.

And here’s another thing: I didn’t learn any of this stuff in a classroom (even though I’m a college student). That’s right – I learned it all on my own. And every single day of the (work)week, I learn more and more new things out of class. In fact, this semester I’m:

  • Learning Japanese
  • Building an iPhone app from scratch
  • Reading at least one book per month

This is on top of my regular class load and the work I do to run College Info Geek (which is considerable). And guess what? You can do this as well.

In this post, I’m going to show you the techniques I use to educate myself without any sort of formal structure, classrooms, professors, or tuition fees. Read More →

On Fear, Loss, And Being Called A Fartknocker

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Living
On Fear, Loss, And Being Called A Fartknocker

“Fartknockers!”

My cousin Nick and I stopped awkwardly trying to do pop shove-its in our grandpa’s driveway to see where the offending remark had come from.

At 12 years old, I was a formidable specimen of beauty and brutality, and I was ready to give my insulter the what-for if need be. Honor was on the line here. I knew, in the deepest pits of my soul, weathered and tempered with a dozen years of life experience, that I was not a fartknocker.

Nick silently echoed the exact same sentiment; I could see it in his eyes. An inner flame blazed.

“Oi there, you bloke! Now see here – we knock on doors with our fists, thank you, not mildly noxious clouds of briefly propelled methane gas! And we’ll come knock on your face with the same bloody things if you say that again, ya grotty nutter!”

…we completely failed to say, as we were neither knowledgable of the chemical makeup of flatulence, nor British, nor particularly good at fighting.

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