GRADUATION GUIDE / THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2011 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
Wide range of options available for new graduates
BY CLAIRE MCINERNY editor@kansan.com
As some seniors are preparing for jobs and planning their lives after school, some students are experiencing a different scenario: the end of college panic.
Four years of classes and one degree later, some students do not know wh
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er. One opportunity that enables students to make that happen is through Teach for America. Teach For America is a program that allows recent college graduates to teach in public schools in low-income communities. The assignment lasts for two years.
The Peace Corps was an attractive option for Wiechman because he did not have a clear direction
Gina Littlejohn, the campus campaign coordinator for Teach For America, said the program aca way to prolong having to find a job, but rather look at it as a way to find new opportunities and new ways for students to use their passions. She said a lot of politicians who now work in Congress were in the program and are now fighting for education rights.
Wiechman spent his two years in Saint Lucia doing community development. He helped a farmers' cooperative develop a grant proposal to get funding for a composting project from the United Nations and also taught reading and music at a school.
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"Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue and a silver sixpence in her shoe." Each line of this traditional poem is supposed to bring the bride good fortune on her wedding night, unless your maid of honor decides to take the groom right from underneath you.
Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin) has been best friends with party girl Darcy (Kate Hudson) and Ethan (John Krasinski) since they were kids. After college, Darcy decides to use her drunken charm to get any guy she pleases. Ethan becomes a writer, and well-mannered Rachel goes to law school. Rachel meets Dex (Colin Egglesfield) and falls head over heels in love with him. The two graduate, and while out for a celebratory dinner, they run into Darcy. She steals Dex right from Rachel's clutches.
Fast-forward six years and Dex and Darcy are now engaged. It's Rachel's thirtieth birthday and she is still single. The always faithful, non-party girl decides to let loose.
Rachel's night out gets the best of her. The morning after is a big surprise when she finds a very naked Dex in her bed.Against better judgment from Ethan, Rachel decides to have a secret relationship with Dex all while pretending to be the happy maid of honor.
As an audience, we are supposed to sympatize with Rachel and feel bad for her misfortune of falling in love with her best friend's iance. But, as the movie unfolds, one can't help but feel nothing for her as she digs herself deeper into the hole of lies and distrust. This movie might not be your typical, predictable romantic comedy, but the quick wit of the character Ethan and the drunken escapades of Darcy will definitely bring in the laughs.
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