Where are you, advisee?

Where are you, my advisee?  Each semester, the 75 or so students I advise are supposed to stop by to discuss their program and get the PIN they need (personal ID number) to register for the coming semester. I send them all an email each semester inviting them to contact me. But only about half ever do.  How they get the information and PIN they need, I don't know!  Probably from the department chair or other professors who happen to be available when I'm not.  I worry a little bit about these phantom advisees.  But only a little.  I assume they know what they're doing.

Facebook's Timeline makes business history fun and easy to read

No doubt you're aware of Facebook's new Timeline for business pages.  Here's an interesting article about it with examples of some of the new content it makes possible (do you  know where the name for Tide detergent came from?): http://adage.com/article/digital/meet-coolest-facebook-brand-timelines-coke-espn-ford/233015/?utm_source=digital_email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=adage

Useful advice about getting a job

This article links you to several sites with good advice about job hunting: job hunting advice .  Unless your future career is on track, I think you'd benefit from at least one of these.

Got a question for me?

Do you need an answer to something that's been bugging you about college life? Put it in a comment below, and I'll see what I can do to help answer it.  Or maybe another one of our readers will post an answer.

What happens to you after graduation?

Maybe nothing, including no job, if you have been a slacker in college.  You are 3 TIMES more likely to be unable to get a job, and much more likely to wind up living with your parents after graduation, than students who were academic achievers in college.  You're also much more likely to have significant credit card debt. Read this article: http://www.citytowninfo.com/career-and-education-news/articles/academically-adrift-college-students-struggle-after-graduation-12012602

Will college help you or kill you?

Will you turn out like John Quincy Adams, the 6th president of the U.S., or like his brother, Charles, who went to Harvard just as J.Q. did, but died an alcoholic at age 30?  Read the advice their father gave them, at http://bit.ly/wUdlXx