By Carlee Mallard, on April 14th, 2010% Today goes on record as the first Guest Post over here ever. Hopefully it’s not the last, either. This is a different type of guest post, though. Over at 20-Something Bloggers (www.20sb.net) they decided it would be cool to pair a bunch of us together to take over each others’ blogs for one day. Today is that day. So here we go!
……………..
Well, hello there! Fancy meeting you here. My name’s Heather. I’m an artist in the process of learning to embrace my often scatter brained and temporarily unstable self, and I am totally usurping the lovely Carlee’s . . . → Read More: 20SB Blog Swap: Fizzle
By Carlee Mallard, on March 26th, 2010% Ian Shapira recently blogged on the Washington Post asking “Are Millenials Lazy?” Ian recapped the story of young medical residents who no longer work the 120-hour work weeks that the older doctor’s worked when they were training and that older generations are accusing Millenials of “devoting less of their energy to work.”
My response to that is this: why must our generation devote our lives to extreme working hours to be considered productive & hard-working citizens contributing to society? Why is our valuing of work and life balance translated into “lazy” by older generations?
Japan has the highest . . . → Read More: Millenials Aren’t Lazy: They’re Pioneers
By Carlee Mallard, on February 26th, 2010% A young woman in college raised a topic of much debate on NPR this afternoon. She explained that her advisor told her she needed to take down all her pictures on Facebook that she wouldn’t want an employer to see. She then complained about how she really didn’t want to delete them. The consensus on the show seemed to be that no, you don’t have to delete all your pictures, but employers don’t have to hire you either.
Why are we still talking about whether potential employers are going to Google you or check out your Facebook profile? Why . . . → Read More: Thanks For The Advice, But I’m Not Deleting Any Facebook Photos
By Carlee Mallard, on February 22nd, 2010% I write for a website called The Next Great Generation where Millenials write about everything and anything related to their generation. This past week (February 15th – February 21st) has been “Sex Week”, which means all featured articles relate back to Gen Y sex somehow. Although all 21 articles are worth reading, I thought I would share some of my favorites (read: does not mean I agree with all of the authors) and the ones with the most interesting debate in the comments in case you don’t have time to read all of them!
For Guys, The First Date . . . → Read More: Sex Week at The Next Great Generation
By Carlee Mallard, on February 16th, 2010% I’m three years out of college now. I find myself looking back at my life and the former college-lives of others around me and can’t help but feel like most of us were much more interesting people in college.
I look back at pictures from college:
Black & white shots with my film SLR in Pittsburgh Strangers I met in Rome while studying abroad in Florence Me with my Swiss foreign exchange student waiting in line to get into a concert Fashion shots of aspiring models printed in my college fashion magazine My family and me covered in sulfur . . . → Read More: What Is “interesting” Anyways? College Was.
By Carlee Mallard, on December 9th, 2009%
I wrote the following essay for my college composition class freshman year (so please forgive the poor/formal writing style!) about Richard Rodriguez’s autobiographical exploration about the end of his education. I was reading over it the other day and realized that some of the main ideas in this paper would be interesting to revisit now that I’ve graduated college and am trying to find ways to continue learning in a post-formal-education life. I discovered while reading Richard Rodriguez’s “The Achievement of Desire” that there is a stark difference between what I believe he refers to as the “end . . . → Read More: The End of Education
By Carlee Mallard, on November 17th, 2009% So you’re stuck in a conference room. For an hour. With no computer! OH NO! What do you do?
I was in this situation the other day and I got really anxious. I’m one of those people who needs to be doing something at all hours of the day. I even have trouble sleeping (well, I have trouble getting to sleep, but also waking up from sleep!). So when I found myself practically locked in a room for an hour with just a bunch of chairs, a table, a pad of paper and pen, and my iPhone, I began . . . → Read More: You’re stuck in a room with… no computer!
By Carlee Mallard, on November 4th, 2009% Something strange happened today. I created a Facebook page for my business that offers marketing, branding, and promotion solutions using promotional products a few weeks ago. To date I only had about 20 fans and I decided that today I would go ahead and send suggestions to the rest of my facebook friends to become a fan of the page. Now I sent this to just about all of my facebook friends not just for self-promotion. Yes, I am promoting the company in hopes, but not just to garner facebook fans. Fans are useless if they’re not interested in . . . → Read More: Nurture your relationships – even when you’re not “getting anything out of it”
By Carlee Mallard, on November 3rd, 2009% I was fired today. “Thanks, again, to everyone for your past service in this capacity.”
Let me start from the beginning. I’ve been working at this job for almost a year and a half now. Everyone has always stressed how important being involved in multiple ways has been: join a committee, go to events outside of work hours, say hi in the hallway, take as many classes as you can, ask to work on new projects, etc. A few months ago I decided to get more involved with the Social Committee at work that budgets, plans, and organizes the . . . → Read More: Is management censoring you?
By Carlee Mallard, on May 30th, 2008% So, my internship and time at LISC is over as of today. It was a 4-month long learning curve to say the least. It was a great experience to see how people are different, how office dynamics play out, and to intimately know the printer’s capabilities. Over lunch with my boss she made a few take-home suggestions: 1. Err on the side of conservative (people don’t like it when you bust into their office while they’re looking at facebook photos) 2. Say hello to your cubicle neighbors in the morning (I guess that’s something most people there are still . . . → Read More: First Internship Lessons
|
My Contributions
|
