Win a New Ipod Touch From My Colleges and Careers

My Colleges and Careers is giving away a free iPod Touch, called the “greatest iPod to date” by IGN’s Scott Lowe. To enter click here. Then all you need to do is like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. Don’t pass up this opportunity to win one of the most amazing mobile media platforms ever designed. It will be a perfect thing to take with you when you go back to college.

7 Ways to Prevent Tendonitis and Carpal Tunnel for Online Students

So you’ve decided to go back to college and enroll in an online school. As an online student, chances are you’ll be spending a lot of time at your computer which could lead to tendonitis and capal tunnel syndrome if you’re not careful. We caught up with Physician’s Assistant Randy Archibald from Tri-City Medical to [...]

Interview with CPA Jon Funk on Rewards and Misconceptions of an Accounting Career

This week we caught up with Jonathan Funk, a Tax Manager with the renown accounting firm, Ernst and Young. Jonathan shares valuable insights about the rewards and misconceptions of being a CPA and provides an insider’s look at a career in accounting. Read on! Interview with a CPA My Accounting Careers: Describe a typical day [...]

A Student’s Guide to Computers for Online School: Internet Connection

To stay connected with your online school community, an essential component of a student’s guide to computers is a reliable internet connection. When considering an internet connection, people often choose based on price, speed, and dependability. A Student’s Guide to Computers for Online School: Internet Connection A spotty internet connection can translate into delayed email [...]

The Last Word: History Making Commencement Speeches

College Graduation. Some students tempted to just scrap the whole thing and hit the ground running without so much as a glance back at their tiny hometown college. Others relish in the moment. The moment that puts a formal punctuation mark on the crazy four years (or ten years, depending on how much you crazy [...]

Popular Majors: West Coast Vs. East Coast

Do you want to spend your college weekends on the beach with sun-kissed blondes on the West Coast? Or are you partial to the cool factor that the tree-lined streets of the east coast is dripping in? Do you know how to work that wool peacoat or would rather year round t-shirt weather? Are you [...]

My Colleges and Careers: The Sweater Vest Awards

My Colleges and Careers proudly announces it’s first ever “Sweater Vest Awards.” The award recognizes collegiate level professors and to be honest there are no requirements. We don’t care what why teach, how you teach, why your teach or even if you are good at what you do. Our only requirement? You are amusing enough [...]

Obama is over the “community college” stigma. Now it’s your turn.

Ok all you My Colleges and Careers Fans, It’s 4:30 on a Wednesday and I’m feeling outspoken. Growing up in Utah sometimes I heard jokes about going to Utah Valley State College and people calling it “High School by the Highway.” A few years and a good deal of refiner’s fire induced maturity later, that [...]

College is a many-splendored thing . . .

College is a place where you get to study things you actually care about. “The purpose of primary education is the development of your weak characteristics; the purpose of university education, the development of your strong.” -Nevin Fenneman College is a place where C’s get degrees. “To those of you who received honors, awards and [...]

Grad Degrees: Worth it?

It’s everyone’s question these days if a master’s degree is worth it. Should you bite the financial bullet and get more educational training, OR try to make it in the career real world first? Click here for a forum on NY Times where M.A. grads wrote in their thoughts on the process.

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