You walk across the stage and take the piece of paper as your name is read. You toss your mortarboard in the air and watch it fall back into your hand. You’ve just graduated from college. Now what do you do? The transition from college life to “real” life is something many students meet with a sense of dread. It’s the end of a chapter of your life and a goodbye to your adolescence.
Classes are almost done, job searching has hopefully begun and seniors are getting ready to move on. Taking the next step might not be as easy as it sounds for seniors who are trying to mentally adjust to the idea of a new social scene after graduation.
The right fabric, the right fit, the right color palette — fashion changes quicker than you can say “faux pas.” Never is the fashion divide more important or daunting than the transition from college to the work place. The typical wardrobe staples of jeans and tank tops that look great strutting down Grand River Avenue won’t cut it walking on Wall Street.
As senior Jodi Maslowski leaves MSU with her degree in dietetics, her views of green are shifting from a symbol of Spartan pride to the green of savings. “I’m trying to work more and save as much as I can,” she said.
Students who enjoy watching Residence Hall Association TV’s free movies in their dorm will be able to watch those movies from anywhere on campus next fall. RHA will make its RHA TV — channels 11 and 12 — available as an application link from their Web site, www.rha.msu.edu, after signing a contract with Swank Motion Pictures Inc.
I remember my hands being clammy, my heart racing and my knees locking as I stood behind the podium. Standing in an itchy wool skirt and stuffy blue sweater, there couldn’t have been more than 20 people in that church in Detroit. But on that day, they were there to decide whether I had the passion to make my dreams happen, and I was nervous.
The near future doesn’t look bright for many graduating seniors. Many factors have sent the state and national economies into recessions and work is harder to find. As MSU is about to send a new crop of students into the job market, many wonder if opportunities will still be there.
All MSU graduates have one thing on their minds — jobs. According to a 2008 survey done by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, or NACE, some jobs are hotter than others. Certain undergraduate degrees will give seniors plenty of options after they walk across the stage. The following are the top five most in-demand majors, according to NACE.
TV journalist Dan Rather will be the feature speaker at MSU’s advanced degree commencement May 8, the university announced Wednesday. Rather also will be given an honorary doctorate of humanities degree.
Renditions of Caryl Churchill’s abstract plays, “This is a Chair” and “Far Away,” will wrap up the Department of Theatre’s 2008-09 season this weekend at Snyder-Phillips Hall. The plays, co-presented by the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, or RCAH, opened Tuesday and will continue through Sunday.
College freshmen spend more time hitting the bottle than hitting the books, according to a report by Outside the Classroom. The report surveyed 30,183 college freshmen from 76 colleges and universities across the country enrolled in AlcoholEdu for College, an Outside the Classroom online alcohol education program.
During her time at MSU, Courtney Trezise’s roommates have poked fun at her for watching and keeping pace with the contestants on “Jeopardy!,” the long-running trivia game show. “They’re always like, ‘How do you know all these answers?’” the international relations and Spanish senior said.
After years of watching her daughter excel in sports, Lorraine Robbins noticed most other adolescent girls weren’t as active. She decided she wanted to change their sedentary lifestyles.
MSU police received a report of a sexual assault early Friday morning near the Main Library, and are continuing to investigate the incident, according to a police crime alert issued Friday evening.
Students, area residents and country music fans spent the brief sunny part of Saturday afternoon at the field outside Demonstration Hall, taking in the sights and sounds of the 8th annual Sparty’s Spring Party. But a rainy forecast kept attendance low and forced the party to end early.
The 46th session of ASMSU’s Student Assembly filled its leadership roles Thursday. The assembly elected its next chairs. The office of the chair represents the assembly to administration and state and federal governments.
Break dance crews across the nation met Saturday night in IM Sports-West for the Red Cedar Ransom, or the first jam held by the MSU Breakdance Club. Thirteen crews competed in the event, with the top team winning a first place, $1,000 prize.
When Gov. Jennifer Granholm proposed a $9.1 million cut to MSU’s funding in February, MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon said there would be cutbacks. To compensate for the lack of state funding, she said it would take an almost 9 percent tuition increase or more than 700 faculty and staff layoffs.
RHA passed a revision to its bylaws Wednesday to fix a discrepancy regarding hiring practices. On April 8, RHA’s committee on internal affairs was asked to review bylaws because it was unclear if Chief of Staff David Averill had followed them in recent hiring.
The sequins on the dancers’ long skirts gleamed from the stage as they twirled and bounced to the beat that echoed through the Auditorium at Wednesday’s dress rehearsal for Satrang.