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

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.