/ 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 who
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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.
Gina Littlejohn, the campus campaign coordinator for Teach America, said the program
a 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.
The Peace Corps was an attractive option for Wiechman because he did not have a clear direction
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.
Like Teach For America, the
PEACE CORPS
NOTICE
Hipster Mermaid is not your cookie-cutter Ariel. Her bio reads, "I wanted legs before they were cool. I didn't want to be part of your world because it was too mainstream."
CELEBRITWEETS // @HIPSTERMERMAID
Nobody under the sea understood Arcade Fire - or any sort of fire. May 1
social networking makes it so much easier to keep in touch with the people I loathe. April 29
mermangst : half fish, half angst.
April 30
I'm sorry, but your credibility as a human being is totally negated by the Ed Hardy shirt you're wearing.
April 27
Going to call my next band 'Obama Birth Certificate' -everyone would want to see it April 27
Just as I am about to be ok with things - I remember the Kardashians April 26
floral print? I prefer coral print.
April 26
you haven't heard of my favorite easter eggs - they're all undiscovered. April 24
I don't need emotions. I have vinyl. April 24
if my iPhone is tracking my every move how is my band supposed to have secret shows?
April 22
It's the moment I read 'dreamer' in your twitter bio that I know we will never be friends. April 21
I can only truly express myself through mix tapes. April 20
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