Will your best friend be singing this song as you go back to college this spring?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLsCmgL_bQM&list=PL94040E18E4765C2D&index=5&feature=plpp

I'll bet you know someone like the students described in this article!

The article talks about "drifting dreamers," students with high ambitions but no clue how to achieve them, who practice "strategic management of work requirements -- that is, getting a degree with as little work as possible." Know anybody like that? (Not you, of course.) Btw, the article appeared in a Canadian online newspaper, but it's talking about U. S. students. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/is-our-students-learning/article2062281/

Are you using Linkedin to find a position or build a personal brand?

If you are, or if you aren't but should be, these short videos may help you: http://ideaswithlegs.tumblr.com/post/730919475/6mustseelinkedinvideos

living with the "generation gap" in the workplace

Instead of calling people above you in the organization "old farts" while they call you "slackers," you might get some new insight by reading this article on the generation gap in the workplace. http://career-advice.monster.com/in-the-office/workplace-issues/workplace-generation-gap/article.aspx

Read the book, now, this summer

"School's out for the summer," sang Alice Cooper. So what are you doing? One thing you should do is get hold of a copy of the textbook you'll be using in your hardest course this fall (statistics, economics, chemistry?) and read it now, during the summer. By the end of the summer, you'll have read the whole book and be 'way ahead of the curve. Or, you could sit around doing little or nothing and just hope your GPA will improve.

If you're a business student, here's what people are saying about you.

Want to know what professors really think about you? Read this article. It's a long one, but I think you'll either hate it or agree they got it right: http://chronicle.com/article/Business-Educators-Struggle-to/127108/
Let me know your reaction by posting a comment.

Can you really think?

There's been a flurry of discussion among professors lately about teaching students to "think critically." What's that? Well, it means something a little different from one prof to the next, but basically it means teaching you to analyze a situation, including the data if any, judge the validity of facts or opinions you hear, come up with a solution to the problem or a position on the issue, and defend it well. Case studies in business and law are an examples of methods used to do that. Does it work? You tell me. Do you think critically, or just accept what's thown at you like you do when you watch Jersey Shores? If you graduate without being able to think for yourself, are you really an educated person? Think about it (critically)!