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Gifts
Give graduation gifts with professional uses By Hanna.Johansen iowastatedaily.com Many ISU students will reach another key milestone in life next month: Graduation. Parents and friends may be wondering what to get a 21stcentury graduate that won’t leave them with empty pockets. Here are a few ideas that will push graduates in the right direction and help them achieve even more of their goals without exceeding your budget.
Pearls & ties Sorry seniors; time to tuck away your faded ISU apparel and put on some slacks and a tie. College grads are going to need some new clothes to fit their new lifestyles. This option can fit every budget and ranges from ties and pearls to suits and pencil skirts. Be sure to get a gift receipt just in case the freshman 15 stuck around longer than planned.
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Many grads are going to use this transition period to backpack across Europe or visit friends they met while studying abroad. Others will need travel accessories to move across the U.S. to their new jobs. If the graduate you are shopping for has plans to travel, a guidebook to the location they plan to travel to, a gift certificate to a travel accessory or backing store or a new piece of luggage can all be practical choices.
Many college graduates are clueless on how to manage their money. A great gift to help any graduate is a subscription to a financial planning magazine such as Kiplinger or Green Sherpa. These magazines give beginner-friendly money management tips.
Creative cash Nice pens and watches are wonderful gifts, but after fourplus years of college tuition and minimum-wage jobs, chances are most graduates’ bank accounts are as vacant as the looks in their eyes the last few days of class. Cash may seem boring for the gift giver, so try presenting it in a creative way. Some ideas include hand decorating a piggy bank, tucking some crisp tens in a business card case, or tucking a check into an insightful novel as a temporary bookmark.
Things to use in their new city Is the grad you are buying for is heading to a new city for a job they landed or grad school? Buying a bus pass or subway tokens is a very sensible, useful gift. Gas cards and city maps are also great options that can be very inexpensive.
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Careers
Have a plan for finding a job after graduation By Wendy.Sloan iowastatedaily.com In about a week, thousands of graduating seniors will receive their degrees and embark on a new journey in the real world. Some might be fortunate enough to already have a job lined up, but what about every-
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Stegman said recent graduates need to be more assertive. If you find a company that you’d like to work for and they don’t have any job openings, “don’t shut the door” on them. “Take that step and contact them. See if they might have any upcoming job opportunities,” she said. With cover letters and resumes, it’s important to make sure these documents are specific to the job for which you are applying. “You can’t write the same cover letter for every job,” Stegman said. Stegman suggested using the job description to help tailor cover letters. “If it states that you need public speaking experience, make sure you talk about that in your cover let-
ter and resume,” said Stegman. With resumes, Stegman said to focus the job descriptions on your accomplishments, not the task you performed. Final tips Stegman stated that a good goal for graduating seniors is to send out 10-to-15 job applications and resumes a week. “If you’re not hearing back at all at that point, take a look at your resume,” she said. Graduating seniors can contact a staffing company or temp organization if they feel like they’ve exhausted their resources at the moment. Stegman also suggested recent graduates consider a post-graduation internship or any temporary job opportunities that will allow them to gain experience or education in their area of interest.
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Travel
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Class gift will improve Hub’s outdoor area By Steph.Luhring iowastatedaily.com
Some postgraduates celebrate their diplomas by taking a trip, whether their destination is to Las Vegas or backpacking through Europe. Photo: Abigail Gilman/Iowa State Daily
Celebrating with a vacation By Sarah.Gonzalez iowastatedaily.com Postgraduates who take a celebratory excursion after receiving their diploma recognize the trip as a last holiday before entering the workforce. Andy Drish, ISU graduate, spent his trip backpacking alone around Europe. “For most people, they’ll never have the opportunity to spend that amount of time with that amount of freedom,” he said. “I had no responsibility, no cell phone, I didn’t even know what day it was part of the time,” Drish said. Drish’s experience was unique in that he traveled solo and had the opportunity to spend seven weeks as an independent traveler because he graduated one semester early. Instead of investing time in one location, he traveled to at least 12 different countries, usually spending two or three days in one city at a time. “When you’re traveling alone, experiencing the city is one aspect, but experiencing the culture and the people is
another,” he said. “I often used a website called couchsurfing. com, which is this amazing thing that can be used from all over the world; it’s a social network, like Facebook, people just open up their home to strangers, so you can use it instead of experiencing the city from a tourist perspective in hotels or hostels.” Couchsurfing.com describes itself as “a worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit.” The network has more than one million members in more than 230 countries, with Europe and the United States hosting the most couch surfers. Another aspect of couchsurfing.com that helped Drish during his trip is the fact that it costs nothing. Drish’s budget included savings of approximately $2,000 and an additional $2,000 in student loans to complete his trip. He said he budgeted by spending an average of $75 per day. “Since I graduated early, I figured I’d spend money on this instead of an extra semester in college. I absolutely learned more during this trip than I would have with an extra se-
mester,” he said. “Traveling alone without an iPod or a computer, you really get to know yourself and also the history of Europe. They have so much more history than we do here and you get so much more appreciation for that.” In fact, European destinations take five of the top 10 best places for post-graduation trips on 10best.com, “trusted advice for travelers.” Edinburgh, Scotland, rated first, with the cities of Paris, London, Amsterdam and Brussels also ranking in the top 10. The same list also ranked five locations in the U.S. as the best places to take a post-graduation vacation. Second place is Las Vegas and third place is Oahu, Hawaii. Other U.S. locations on 10best.com are New York and San Francisco. Many of the destinations featured on the website include passes that help keep young travelers’ budgets. The Las Vegas Bite Card offers discounts to restaurants and attractions on the Vegas Strip, the Edinburgh Pass provides free entry to more than 30 Scottish attractions and free bus fare and the Paris Pass gives travelers free Metro transportation and free entry
to 60 popular city sites. Ashley Fishburn, senior in sociology and criminal justice, plans to visit the top-rated U.S. location a few days after her walk across the Hilton Coliseum stage. “I’ve never been to Vegas and we were able to find a pretty good deal on plane and hotel fare,” she said. “I think it’s just one of those places that would be great to experience, especially now, right before I start my career.”
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The senior class of 2011 voted to improve the outdoor seating area at the Hub for their senior class gift. Since the first gift, a flag pole on Central Campus with a boulder marker engraved “Class of 1876,” the senior class gift is an annual tradition at Iowa State. Class gifts of the past included tangible objects such as the Victory Bell in front of Jack Trice Stadium, the Forker Building tennis courts and intangible gifts such as scholarships. The senior class gift is chosen from a selection of projects to benefit Iowa State, said Sarah Johnson, program manager of the ISU Foundation. Facilities Planning and Management presented several projects to the Senior Class Council and the ISU Foundation to choose the three potential senior class gifts. The winning senior class gift will create more seating space outside the Hub and renovate the existing outdoor seating. The inside seating was recently renovated and the goal for the senior class gift was to provide permanent benches and tables consistent with the other seating areas throughout campus. The projected total cost of this senior class gift is $19,000. “We generally aim to raise $20,000,” Johnson said. The ISU Foundation student fundraisers call ISU seniors to get them involved with the senior class gift, and the average gift this year is expected to be $58. That was also the average gift last year when the senior class gift cost $19,414.14. Johnson said the project is speculated to be completed by next year. The other two options seniors voted on were also campus improvement projects. The Memorial Union Landscape improvements would have replaced steel posts and the brick paving north of the parking ramp at the Memorial Union. The third project was the West Campus Streetscape which would have improved the pedestrian safety and created a more attractive campus entry at the west entrance of Union Drive. The Hub outdoor seating project won the vote “by a landslide,” said Johnson. Approximately 63 percent of voters chose the Hub outdoor seating project, while approximately 27 percent of voters chose the West Campus Streetscape, and 9 percent of voters chose the Memorial Union landscape improvements. Holly Preston, senior in interdisciplinary studies, said she was unable to vote March 25, when voting closed. “I think the safety for pedestrians is more practical,” Preston said. When asked if she would be getting involved, Preston said she would not be able to contribute, but she would have liked to get involved.
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Employment
Start your online job search wisely, use social networks right your connections will be notified when you change your profile, making recommendations and follow companies. You can also control whether your connections can see your connection list or find out when you add a new connection. It looks a little suspicious if you suddenly add 15 recruiters from various and sundry tchotchke factories to your connections list.
By Andrea Bartz and Brenna Ehrlich CNN Wire Service You’re sitting at your desk, staring at your Dilbert calendar, loathing everything from your company-distributed coffee mug to your co-worker, Earl, who is swirling his pencil in the crevices of his ear. “Time to blow this popsicle stand,” you think. Thankfully, you’re sitting in front of a job-finding goldmine: your computer. While you might be tempted to just utter a few expletives and surf on over to Monster. com, know this: There’s a smart way to begin an online job search while you’re gainfully employed. A recent study from UCLA and the State University of New York-Stony Brook found that unemployed folks -- even if they left voluntarily -- are stigmatized when it comes to procuring jobs, unlike those who are collecting paychecks. So suck it up and start your search wisely – and maybe bring some headphones to save your eardrums from Earl’s nail chomping.
E-Ask around Let’s say you work for a home design website, but your true passion is collecting Hummels [you know, those frightening children figurines that people always give to old folks for Christmas]. You’re talking with a Hummel distributor for a story and suddenly it hits you: “Why not just work at the Hummel factory, coming up with new little-boy-leading-sheeparound tableaux?” Well, you have the dude’s ear, why not ask him if there are any openings? Dr. Katharine S. Brooks, author of “You Majored in
And if you have, in fact, been fired or laid off ...
Colton Kennedy, junior in biological systems engineering and mechanical engineering, reviews his resume at the College of Engineering Career Fair on Sept. 21 in large tents constructed on the Iowa State Center courtyard. File photo: Ryan Damman/Iowa State Daily
What? Mapping Your Path From Chaos to Career,” suggests doing so in a less-thandirect manner, however. “Contact [your potential employer] and say you’re helping a colleague out who is interested in any openings at their company,” she said. “If it turns out they have an opening, you can always say later [when you apply] – ‘I wasn’t even thinking about looking for a job until I saw this opportunity – I just had to apply,’” Brooks said. That way, it won’t make it through the knickknack grapevine that you’re considering jumping ship to trod greener pastures – like working as a professional metaphor mixer.
Social network If you don’t have time to go to a ton of mixers and whatnot, you can easily use the Web to cultivate contacts in the field you want to get into and do so in a discrete manner. “Don’t just network when you need something,” said Krista Canfield, spokeswoman for LinkedIn. “A ‘gimme gimme’ mentality is a surefire way to lose professional contacts and get deleted from peoples’ networks,” Canfield said. Canfield recommends joining special interest groups on LinkedIn, and talking with others about something other than work opportunities. “Joining different or new professional circles will help you meet other people and also
open the door to other opportunities,” she said. Brooks suggests starting a new Twitter account under a different name, on which you can post stories and thoughts about the field in which you want to work. Then, when you turn in your resume to the Hummel folks, you can direct them to your account, @ AppleTreeBoy, and all your illuminating ruminations on what Berta Hummel would have achieved had she lived past 37.
Don’t be stupid OK, this may seem really obvious, but we need to say it anyway: Do not apply for new jobs from your work e-mail or
during work hours. Earl is probably watching. “It isn’t just about the ethics of your current situation – it’s also about the impression you’re creating,” Brooks said. “If your potential new employer sees that you use your company’s e-mail to correspond with them, use the company phone to call them and appear to be contacting them during work hours, they will assume you will do the same thing when you work for them,” she said. Less obviously, it’s wise to cover your tracks when you’re doing all that networking we were talking about before. Canfield recommends that you familiarize yourself with LinkedIn’s settings. You can control whether
After you’ve sobered up/ stopped crying/put on pants, take a big swig of your pride. While you might not want to tell anyone that you were replaced by a computer algorithm, keeping your current jobless situation under wraps is actually really stupid. Every expert we spoke to told us that it was best to let everyone in your network know about your loss – upping the odds that news will strike the ear of someone who can help. Donna Flagg, author of “Surviving Dreaded Conversations,” said, “Here I think it’s smart to work Twitter in because you can tweet the experience openly and perhaps connect to other like-minded folks.” Still, keep the news-sharing professional. Even if Earl did tell everyone about your secret rendezvous with your girlfriend in the storage room, thereby leading to your untimely curtain call, telling the whole digital world about how he once had a panic attack in the break room and wept under the snack table isn’t the way to your potential new employer’s heart. Keep it classy, and you’ll be back in a cubicle in no time, sipping from a new company logo-emblazoned chalice.
Relationships
Long-distance dating: making it work across the country ‘Geographic singles’ cope with obstacles By A. Pawlowski CNN Wire Service Joe Whitfield catches a flight from St. Louis to Atlanta so often he knows some of the airport gate agents by name. They’re convinced he’s a business traveler, but work isn’t the reason he’s shuttling back and forth so urgently between the two cities.
Whitfield is on the road for love.
Graduation sometimes separates couples into long-distance relationships. File photo: David Livingston/Iowa State Daily
Like many people these days, he lives in one part of the country, while his sweetheart, Chandra Thomas, lives in another.
They use phones, webcams and online chats to stay in touch as often as possible, but they long for the time when a plane or a car can finally take the distance out of their long-distance relationship -if only for a while. “We manage it by keeping our eye on the next trip ... knowing there’s another trip around the corner and knowing that because we don’t have as much time as others, that the trip is going to be full of romance,” said Whitfield, who attends law school in St. Louis. “We are always trying to figure out how to see each other,” added Thomas, a freelance journalist in Atlanta. It’s a familiar scenario for many couples as careers, studies and economic realities keep them from living in the same place. The U.S. Department of State,
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Thomas and Whitfield, who are both in their 30s, have been able to see each other at least once a month, but usually just for the weekend. They met in 2006 when he came to Atlanta for his grandfather’s funeral. His parents knew her family and she was asked to show him around the city. Thomas reached out to him – reluctantly. She had plans, but invited him out for coffee. Something clicked. They began dating long-distance several months later, with him doing the bulk of the travel, she said. “Even to this day, we have a regular pickup spot at HartsfieldJackson [Atlanta International
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Beauty
Get picture perfect for your graduation party with these tips By Jacque Wilson CNN Wire Service Photos from graduation last forever. Trust us. The event itself is nice. The real test of success comes after the party -when pictures of you and your friends start appearing everywhere. You’re uploaded to Facebook. You’re e-mailed to your aunts in Seattle. You’re rotating across your mother’s desktop background in a perpetual stream of twisted hair and polyester gowns. So how can you avoid being added to the latest Awkward Family Photos meme? Follow these tips from our beauty experts and you’ll be picture perfect in no time.
Consider a spray tan “Spray tanning is such a great thing,” Almonte said. “It gives you a nice glow and evens out your skin tone.” Plus it’s infinitely better than damaging skin cells by lying out in the sun or baking in a tanning bed. DHA, the active ingredient in modern day tanning solutions, works with the proteins in the top layer of your skin to turn it golden brown. Since your upper epidermis is made up of dead cells, they aren’t harmed in the process and the chemicals won’t be absorbed into your body because they will eventually shed off with the dead skin. Many salons offer spray tanning, but there are also mobile experts who will come to your home. You’ll get personalized service, and most importantly, a customized solution, said Mandie Price, founder of the Mobile Tanning Association and owner of Gold n’ Delicious Tans in Texas. “One shot for everybody doesn’t work,” Price said. “That’s why spray tanning has that stigma of ‘please don’t turn me orange.’ The trick is to find a technician who will apply the proper solution for your skin type to avoid that ‘Snookie tan’ that we all fear.” If you are going to a salon, make sure to ask whether they offer varying strengths of solution. Pick one with 8% DHA if you’re unsure -- Price says it looks good on most skin tones. And look for a company that’s using the newer, faster HVLP sprayers. Most spray tans fade away in seven days. Get it done two days before your event if you’re wearing a
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Heshan Mudannayake, senior in industrial technology has his graduation photo taken during the Graduation Fair on Wednesday at the Memorial Union bookstore. File photo: Huiling Wu/Iowa State Daily
light-colored dress; one day before is fine if it’s a darker color. For more tips on spray tanning, check out Price’s client dos and don’ts list.
Whiten your teeth No need to make an appointment with your dentist. A ton of teeth whitening products are on the market and almost any of them will produce results with some time, Almonte said. The American Dental Association says whitening products work in one of two ways, either bleaching the tooth to change its color or by using physical reactions to remove surface stains. Whitening strips work well in just a few days by bleaching surface and set-in stains similar to a professional service. Or use a dental association-approved whitening mouth rinse and toothpaste. Toothpastes contain polishing elements that help scrub off surface strains over time. Chew some whitening gum on the side and you’ll
engaged last year, carefully monitors travel websites to get the best deals. They soon learned a longdistance romance will turn you into an airfare expert – fast. “I had a total willingness
notice a significant change in as little as two weeks. “A brighter smile just sort of lights up your face -- it makes your skin look better, your eyes look brighter,” Almonte said. Be aware that using whitening products with hydrogen or carbamide peroxide (commonly found in whitening strips or trays) can lead to tooth sensitivity. Follow the instructions on the package regarding the length of time you leave them on. If you experience discomfort, remove the strips immediately. Now say cheese!
Clear up your skin There’s nothing worse than waking up before the big day with a supersized zit on your forehead or finding a patch of acne on your back when you had planned to go strapless. Your plan of attack depends on how much time you’ve got before the party, Almonte said. “If you already break out and you want to start a (cleansing) regimen
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a few weeks before, that’s great, but know that it takes a few weeks for a regimen to kick in.” This is true for bacne too. Use a salicylic acid body wash and you should see things clear up in a couple of weeks. If you get a zit three or four days before the party, you have a good chance of getting rid of it with a daily salicylic acid face wash and a benzoyl peroxide topical cream. Does stress have one popping out the day before? Call a dermatologist and get the pesky pimple injected with cortisone. The shot will shrink it down so you can cover it with concealer and foundation (use both, Almonte says) later. Unfortunately, if it’s the day of, you’re out of options. Put some ice on it to reduce the swelling and give the photographer your “good side.”
Lose the bloating First let us note that there’s no way to safely drop a few pounds in a short amount of time, and wanting to
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Lots of travel lessons followed the start of their longdistance relationship. It was hard to find reasonably priced tickets between Seattle and Detroit, for example, Houghton found. She is now an air travel veteran, but the first time she flew to Seattle and back, there was a big snag. On her return trip, Houghton had a layover in Chicago, but she was such a flying newbie she didn’t realize she had to switch airports. She had arrived at Chicago Midway, but her next flight was leaving from O’Hare. “I had to take a shuttle bus and it was my first time being out of the state on my own and I was really freaked out, but I didn’t know any better at the time,” Houghton said. The trip soon turned into a
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do so for any one occasion highlights an underlying body image issue. That said -- we’ve all been there. But the best ways to get rid of that extra water weight before a party don’t involve skipping meals, taking laxatives or eating grapefruit for a week. “Diet pills and diuretics don’t result in any real body weight loss,” said Kendrin Sonneville, a registered dietitian and researcher who specializes in adolescent nutrition. “Using these products can lead to dehydration and electrolyte imbalance, which can affect your heartbeat and have serious health consequences.” Skipping meals, even snacks, also tends to backfire. “Your metabolism burns most efficiently when you eat consistently.” So eat. Eat foods high in water content such as fruits and vegetables and low in sodium, like lean meats. Avoid processed foods, and snack every three to four hours. Follow this “diet” and you’ll have the energy required to deal with mom’s shutterbug tendencies AND dance the night away.
familiar routine. She knew the sights by heart as the plane approached Seattle – I-5, the mountains, Puget Sound – and she knew her beau would always be waiting for her at the airport with a chai latte from Starbucks. The couple chose to take less frequent trips to see each other -- once every few months -- and to stay together for longer periods. But after meeting only in their respective cities, they began yearning for a new place to visit. “We wanted to take an actual vacation. We were a little tired of vacations being limited to Detroit and to Seattle,” Houghton said. “We went on a trip to San Francisco and that was like the most amazing thing ever, to actually be traveling together as co-travelers rather than going to see one another.” The couple married this month and lives in Seattle.
Travel costs add up When a long-distance romance spans continents, the couple really has to get creative about airfares and meeting places. Laura Genutis, who resides in Pennsylvania, and her fiance, who lives near Florianopolis, Brazil, have been meeting all over the
world as they work through the U.S. immigration process that will allow him to move and marry her. Genutis preferred not to give his name while that process continues. She’s been chronicling their long-distance relationship in her blog, Travel for Love. The couple started dating after meeting at a Pittsburgh bar in 2008 when he was in the United States on a temporary visa, Genutis said. After he returned to his country, they promised each other they would do everything they could to meet every three months, she said. They’ve since vacationed in France, Spain, Bolivia, Argentina and the Caribbean -- their halfway rendezvous place. Genutis also regularly visits her beau in Brazil. The trips have been wonderful, but costly, Genutis said. “It gets difficult, but we really try to make it a priority in our lives. There may be better things I could do with my finances but I’ve tried to save money in other ways and cut back on other things so that I can afford the travel and he’s been able to do the same,” Genutis said. “I’m proud that our relationship has done really well.” Just another couple on the road for love.
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