Aram Zucker-Scharff

College President: SAT Is Part Hoax, Part Fraud | TIME: The president of Bard College says recent changes to the SAT are motivated by the competition that College Board has experienced with its arch rival, the ACT, rather than any serious soul searching

College Grads Taking Low-Wage Jobs Displace Less Educated:

Dear College Grads: You’re ruining the economy. 

“The funny thing is, the majority of our servers, bartenders and people who work in the corporate office do carry either a master’s or Ph.D.” 

Haha yeah, the value of your Ph.D. is a bartender job. “Funny.” 

“As the number of college graduates outweighs the availability of education-appropriate jobs and they take whatever they can get, everyone else is pushed down the ladder, said Katie Bardaro, PayScale’s lead economist and analytics manager.

‘There’s not really a lower-level job they can move into since they were already in a low-level job,’ Bardaro said.”

That’s right college graduate, your Master’s degree has gained you vaunted entry to the bottom. Enjoy the security of having no further to drop and the guilt of being the majority reason we need to increase minimum wage. 

In defense of unicorns: drewvigal:

But reflexively shunting these students into templated roles cheats them out of a broader journalistic experience, which hurts both them and the field as a whole.

The bigger the org, the more difficult this can be.

Millennials Feel Trapped in a Cycle of Internships With Little Pay and No Job Offers:

Call them members of the permanent intern underclass: educated members of the millennial generation who are locked out of the traditional career ladder and are having to settle for two, three and sometimes more internships after graduating college, all with no end in sight.

This only happens because you let it happen. Don’t take the unpaid internship. Don’t let them tell you your work is worth nothing. When given the choice between giving your work away to someone else and doing it for yourself. Do it for yourself. Start a blog. Tumble. Make your own work and put it out there. That will get you way more respect anyway.