After final exams, the Class of 2006 faces more questions. These articles may help...
Money Management for New Grads
Many students are unprepared for the financial responsibilities of independence, but a few helpful tips can get college graduates on the right track.-- by Kristin Demers
Finding & Furnishing Your Place
Searching for suitable housing after graduation may be a challenge, but finding and decorating your new home can be easier than you think.-- by Kristin Demers
Health Insurance: Rolling the Dice
Excluded
from parents' health insurance plans, unemployed new grads
face difficult choices about short-term alternatives.
- - by Zachary Zoeller
The Career-Hunting Game
Graduates who thought their studies were over are now enrolled full-time in planning, networking, resume writing and interviewing.- - by Jennifer Brown
Grad School: To Go or Not to Go?
UT's Communication and Information graduate programs provide good examples of the questions facing new graduates in other fields and on other campuses.
- - by Malinda Headlee
How to Land a Job in TV News
Lights...Cameras...Action! It is right there for the taking for any student wanting a job in TV. Well, it is not quite that easy.-- by James Freeman
Keeping in (Virtual) Touch
Graduation means friends are separating and going separate ways, but nothing is popping up faster than online ways to stay connected.- - by Simpson Burleson
Old & New Networking
So how are you going to keep in contact with the friends that you made in college and make new ones that aren't in your old neck of the woods?- - by Jonathan Carlomagno
No More Classmating:
Meeting People After College
With a new job in a new city, you can follow the safe way of meeting people or you can live a little dangerously... - - by Andrew Patrick
Another
Perspective:
Non-Traditional Students
Life is already a bit different for a older person who enters college...
and so are the "What next?" considerations.
- - by Flower Houlihan
Or...
Just Say 'No Thanks, Cubicle'
Some graduates prefer alternatives to starting their careers right away. Most of the world is easily accessible -- and your education just keeps on going.-- by Taylor R. Joseph
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