A Free Career, Take It Or Leave It

3/29/11 2:59 AM

We are told to “get an internship” right out of college – that all the hard work in those four or so years, will hopefully culminate in us snagging that perfect chance to impress an employer for little to no pay. Well, I’ll be blunt: I’m tired of hearing it. Make no mistake, internships can be great. It’s not so much that internships are bad, because they can very well be a clear cut path for some people, in many cases, the only way a person can gather real experience, eventually leading to a real job, but what about those with resumes, experience, and most of all, an utter need to have some pay behind the time spent. To start, let us start with my own major of Communication Arts. What is typically expected of most communications internships? Well, many...

A Pathetically Apathetic Public

3/29/11 2:56 AM

It is an odd cycle that we have found ourselves in. If the world is so divided, how did it become so? Did our own hunger for political action (in any direction) cause us to cut out the thought processes behind it? I would like to submit a possible explanation. The apathy of an individual to actually understand something, allows them to believe absolutist statements about someone or something else, for example: Someone who describes themselves as a conservative does not mean they wish to impose religious values on society, nor does a self-described liberal worship Marxist philosophy, and yet, some people do make these assumptions about others on a daily basis. In fact, I have come to a certain conclusion along the way. The apathy of an individual leads them to make irrational decisions,...

World Wide Revolution on the World Wide Web

3/13/11 4:37 PM

One of the benefits of living in the digital age is the ability to work across the world, collaborate with others, communicate with like-minded individuals, and share interests with people you would never meet normally. You can even talk politics if you please (or simply shout them, as most people seem to do), and maybe criticize your government in the process. From Tunisia, to Egypt, and to Libya, repressive regimes have seen social uprising, the likes of which they’ve never encountered before. Rulers that have been in power for decades have been ousted, and more are being challenged in what seems like a daily occurrence. Truly, what has made these uprisings unique has been the speed at which they are occurring. The world has likely never seen such a simultaneous, coordinated...