Category: Now What? (Life Post-Grad)

The way that today (12.21.12) has been built up as the end of the world, I can’t help but feel like some people are probably disappointed. We have heard for years that the end is nigh, because the Mayan calendar says it’s so…So what gives? We wake up today and there’s no nuclear launch attacks….

Today is, as I’m sure even the average Tea Party voter knows, 12-12-12. And that means it’s not only one of the very special days that roles around once a century, like 8-8-8 (which is lucky in Chinese culture, and they started the Olympics on that day) or 6-6-6 (a marketing ploy to release The…

I’ve developed a theory about how online activity (particularly Facebook, but not just that) impacts your real life. It seems like the more time you spend online, the worse your real life gets, and the worse your real life gets, the more time you spend online. I call it the Virtual Vicious Cycle. I can’t…

This may be a day late and a (billion) dollar(s) short, but I was fortunate enough to be in New York on the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and I made special effort to check out Zuccotti Park, where they had staged their most notable protest in months. [I also went back…

By asking if 9/11 still matters, I don’t mean in the way a Civil War battle will always be historically noted nor in the way December 7th, 1941 will always live in infamy. I’m asking if it still matters in a major, organic way in people’s lives and the way they make decisions. Yesterday marked…

Ever since there’s been an America, there’s been a general consensus that going to college is something you should do, if you can do it. That getting that diploma will be a sure-fire ticket to a better life than you would have without one. It’s a pretty widely accepted belief that staying in school and…

I know that this feature on the site is supposed to be about life post-college (and usually is) but since nobody really cares if I stray from that, let’s talk about what’s next for some embattled people in the news lately… 1. Rick Santorum: Okay, guy, you didn’t win any states no one thought you…

Every so often—-as in every other day—-I like to run a puff piece, and today I’m especially fascinated with Leap Day. Leap Day just so happens to be one of my favorite holidays even if it doesn’t include getting out of work or school, and most people shamefully chose to let it go to waste….

With Valentine’s Day being yesterday, it made me wonder if there is something in the DNA of Generation Y—-fundamentally altered by being able to video chat with someone around the globe in five seconds—-that made them experience love any differently than generations past. Is emailing or Facebook or even sexting really that different than love…

Rolling on with this week’s trend of going through what each segment has taught me (I’ll stop short of recapping what “Mom Jokes” taught me but not until then), it’s “Now What?’s” turn to act a little wiser. But since part of being young is not learning from your mistakes, I didn’t really learn much…

In the ongoing shit-show for the GOP nomination for president there remains one candidate I feel has earned my endorsement. This man is fearless, speaking truth to power four nights a week and most notably at the White House Correspondents dinner a few years back where no one left the room unscathed. He is also…

Of course Now What? mostly deals with issues related to young people but I like to think of it as also having to do with shifts in society and “Now What?” could also refer to what’s next for this big, great, all-over-the-map country of ours. And no where are we less certain (or more divided)…