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Living in the wake of the weekend can be a good way to start a Monday, as long as it’s launching you forward into the week. If you’re still riding a two-day hangover, can’t remember who’s bed you drooled all over last night and you didn’t do your homework, um, well, maybe you learned something, but here, I’ll help fill those memory gaps.
In my case, I learned some pretty jolting stuff about the oh-so-cool generation surrounding this decade of young people. Generation Y (people who grew up in the 90s and 2000s), are also called Millennials, which makes me think of millionaires, which reminds me of this YouTube vid I saw, since that’s like, most college students’ main source of information. Bo Burnham, anyone?
So the video, SonyBMG’s “Did You Know” whacks you with some hard-hitting facts. Look:
The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004. (Errr… it’s still 2008)
For students starting a 4 year technically degree, this means that half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study. (Holy shit, I’m so glad I majored in Starving Writerdom.)
1 out of 8 couples last year met online. I’m so disabling my Wall.
Today, the number of text messages send and received every day exceeds the total population of the planet. At least it’s not… pollution?
…as you stumble into your 8:15 a.m. class, rubbing your malleable cheek skin while readjusting your eyes to the overhead fluorescent lights is not the best way to start your day. Especially if you don’t have the excuse of a hangover. You’re guilty as charged, a classic case of college student profiling: lack of sleep.
Today’s Tasty Tip is brought to you by your forearm muscles. From raising your hand… gosh.
Raise your hand!
While it’s fun to slump beneath those two-in-one desk chairs and see how many undercover text messages you can sneak in while a droning lecture starts your next REM cycle, you’re missing out on all the FUN.
How much time do you spend tagging photos? Checking AIM away message updates? Mindless Facebook stalking? (“It’s not stalking, everybody does it, gosh.”)
Today’s Tasty Tip is brought to you by the letter ‘Oh yeah, I should get a job.’
“The On-Campus Job”
Banging your head against the walls of a job that doesn’t care if you have midterms during the middle of a shift? Painfully procrastinating that whole “get a job while you’re in college” plan in general, perhaps? Or are you just broke as… Freddie Mac? Wait…
If you’re like most college students, you’ve perfected the art of the Ramen noodle, can make macaroni and cheese in the drinking fountain and really believe that fruit snacks suffice your need for Vitamin C.
But the oh-so-coveted college staple foods can get stale and not just from leaving the bag open. I mean, who really buys chip clips anyway.
-girl geeks
-guys who like girl geeks
-scientists
-artsy web developers
-Trekkies
-cat owners
-academics
-grad students
-people who buy magnetic poetry kits
-people who receive magnetic poetry kits as gifts
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