College Guys, according to women
Mon 18 Jun 2007 – 14.23
The woman’s point of view is often overlooked here on twentyhood, perhaps because there are in fact no women contributing to the site, so it is with great pride that I share a post I found on Free My Campus about the Top 10 Guys You Meet in College. My favourite, strictly for comedic reasons:
7) The Jock: this guy isn’t actually on varsity, but you’d never know it by the way he dresses and talks. Apparently, playing 3 sports a year in high school wasn’t enough for him, so now he’s involved in over a half dozen intramurals: baseball, basketball, hockey, crew, dodgeball – you name it, he’s played it and has the t-shirt for the week-long tournament to prove it.
Maybe if you’re lucky, I’ll post my rebuttal, The Top 10 Girls You Meet in College …
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posted by Scott in education, life, relationships.
– 11.45
Not Clay Aiken
I didn’t know you could make $100,000 doing that. The purpose of this Forbes.com slideshow list is to make us say hmm, and perhaps revise our own career choices. Then again, most of these I would never want to do, even for $100,000 a year.
posted by Scott in careers, personal finance.
Thu 14 Jun 2007 – 16.43
I’m renewing my efforts to promote twentyhood, and that means I’m going to submit this ‘cast to lots of directories and site having to do with blogs/podcasts. Not sure how many people use Odeo, but henceforth, you can check out twentyhood through that site and add the show to your feed, or what have you.
Have a look, explore the site, sign up, help promote twentyhood by claiming us “cool”, or whatever their ranking system may be, and let me know what’s the deal.
•• My Odeo Channel (odeo/5ad1d0bab8c4d437)
posted by Scott in podcasts, this website.
Scientists Demonstrate Best Way To Use Caffeine
– 10.16
First off, I love how they use the verb “use” as if caffeine is a narcotic. Then again it is a chemical drug, and McDonald’s and other fast food joints refer to their best customers as “heavy users”. Anyway…
Following the earlier post about small ’shots’ of caffeine throughout the day as a more effective method of caffenation comes new conclusions from actual scientists, of sorts.
Morning “big gulp” coffee drinkers are misusing the power of caffeine. Researchers … have shown that caffeine is best admnistered in a larger number of smaller doses with the doses coming later in the day.
The trouble with this method, at least in my view, is that you have to keep going back to the kitchen and doing the whole milk-and-sugar deal every hour or so.
posted by Scott in coffee, health & fitness.
Episode 029: Ten Minutes with John
– 9.45
John January, of American Copywriter fame, visited New York this week, so Scott caught up with him outside of a bar on Park Ave. South. This episode is a quick recap of John’s twenties, following the longer conversations held beforehand, inside said bar.
Recorded on a Micromemo by XtremeMac
The Quarter-Life Crisis
Kristen from Jersey, and her book What College Didn’t Prepare Me For
Virb.com - better than MySpace [Scott on Virb]
AdHoles - for advertising [Scott or John on AdHoles]
Listen Now
Download Episode 029 (.m4a, 10:29, 5 MB)
posted by Scott in podcasts.
What College Didn’t Prepare Me For
Wed 13 Jun 2007 – 16.52
The Ultimate ‘What Now?’
Freelance writer and blogger Kristen Fischer is a twentysomething. She’s written about being a freelance creative and productivity for sites like freelanceswitch.com, among others. She’s also the author of Creatively Self-Employed: How Writers and Artists Deal with Career Ups and Downs! and for her next book, she’s writing about, wait for it, life as a twentysomething.
If you, the lovely readers/listeners, would like to help Kristen in her campaign to educate soon-to-be-twentysomethings (twentynothings?) then please head over to her site and fill out the little survey. (You’ll have to just copy the text and email it, it’s not a web form.) Describe your tale of twentyhood, and you just might find yourself in the pages of history, talking about how much you have Ramen noodles.
Fill out as much or as little of the survey as you feel is fit. Maybe try and focus on completing on section in a very detailed manner, with the others as sort of an overview? Either way, head on over to the site and help a Jersey Girl out. Also, I’d be interested to see who among you is participating, so make sure you leave a comment here.
posted by Scott in education, life.
Tue 12 Jun 2007 – 11.48
We knew this, right?
Psychology Today, the website that I never visit, but always seem to be reading, has posted another lengthy article about how childhood in America is being extended further and further into one’s 20s. In fact, Psychologist Robert Epstein says:
The trend started a hundred years ago and now extends childhood well into the 20s. The age at which Americans reach adulthood is increasing—30 is the new 20—and most Americans now believe a person isn’t an adult until age 26
The interview is actually quite interesting, especially if you are feeling a bit disturbed by the fact that people now classify you as an adult. The whole point of this blog/podcast is to discuss these issues, so what do you think of a statement like this:
Imagine what it would feel like—or think back to what it felt like—when your body and mind are telling you you’re an adult while the adults around you keep insisting you’re a child. This infantilization makes many young people angry or depressed, with their distress carrying over into their families and contributing to our high divorce rate. It’s hard to keep a marriage together when there is constant conflict with teens.
Deep stuff.
posted by Scott in careers, life.
Private Loans Deepens Student Debt
Sun 10 Jun 2007 – 12.11
The NY Times has a lengthy feature article aboutu Student Debt, more specifically the Private Loans that most students are faced with as a method of paying for an education.
The problem this time around isn’t soley the rising costs of University tuition. In addition, there is a wave of new Federal De-Regulation on the financial services industry, and of course the recent actions that cut funding for all sorts of government-sponsored (low-interest) loan programs. For example:
Unlike federal loans, whose interest rates are capped by law — now at 6.8 percent — [private] loans carry variable rates that can reach 20 percent, like credit cards … And while federal loans come with safeguards against students’ overextending themselves, private loans have no such limits. Students are piling up debts as high as $100,000.
Ouch. The story goes on to highlight some twentysomethings who are down on their luck moneywise. There are graphs and everything, which makes this a very thorough read. Fair warning, if you read this article, your blood pressure will likely rise a bit — unless of course you have zero debt, in which case maybe you should head over to tiffany.com and buy some useless shiny crap.
posted by Scott in education, personal finance.
Fujiya & Miyagi - Ankle Injuries
Fri 08 Jun 2007 – 10.33
Remember back on the last episode (jeez, I’m so behind) when I played the track by Fujiya & Miyagi? Well, now they’ve got a really cool video using dice as pixels! Definitely 80s inspired, as the not-so-subtle references to Space Invaders and other pixel graphics of the day will indicate. Check it out.
Totally reminds me of Summer Games for the Commodore 64
posted by Scott in movies & media, music.
Do a Background Check on Yourself
Tue 05 Jun 2007 – 22.49
I was talking with a friend the other day about how he has never given two weeks notice for leaving a job, and never cleaned an apartment on moving out. I remarked how negative that must appear when someone performs a background check. He then told me about the time he got arrested for parking tickets in the middle of class!
But I digress. Our friends at The Consumerist have compiled a list of useful links you can use to perform a background check on yourself, to certify all the information is accurate, and to ensure nothing catches you by surprise on your next job interview.
posted by Scott in careers, life, personal finance.