EDITORIAL Poor economy dashes hopes for soon-to-be~grad_uates

The economy has been slowing down for quite some time now. Yes, the popular misconception that the economy was perfect before 9-11, is false. However, it has gotten worse. This comes as bad news for pending college graduates across the country. Four years of hard work and no pay off. What's the deal with that?

The job market is certainly not as plentiful as it once was, but it is by no means dry. According to the article on page 1 there are still opportunities available. They may not be in the specific area that you would like, but it is only temporary.

There are simple things that students can do to make the job search much easier. The most important, however, is to start early. If you are a senior and have not even begun to think about where you want to apply than you 're hurting yourself. Start as early as possible. Plenty of people land jobs by October of their senior year. The market isn't as flooded then as it is in May, so do yourself a favor and get moving.

Another major option to ~onsider is graduate school. It may not be what you were thinking about last year, but now it might seem like a good idea. By the time you get out of grad school the job market could be in a much better place than it is now. Plus having the master's degree doesn't look too shabby on that finely tuned resume.

_ Access .from anywhere?

To be fair, it hasn't been very long since the Cabrini library has set up its new access from anywhere network. The network offers some truly amazing research materials such as full text editions of every single article from the Philadelphia Inquirer since 1981. Most newspaper web sites will charge you at least 2 dollars per article, this is free. But since it has been set up, people off campus have had a difficult time signing on. From the college it's fine, but that's not the point. Hopefully the kinks get worked out ASAP.

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Alexis Strizziere assistant features editor

In a world filled with animosity, hate, sorrow and many other melancholy emotions, there are a lot of other emotions I sometimes forget that we as human beings are capable of expressing. From time to time I begin to think I don't make enough time for all of the good emotions and only allow the bad emotions to be present in my everyday life. I have to wonder then, why don't I make more time for things that make me happy? But then again, at times I forget what it is that makes me happy to begin with.

I sit back and look in on my own life thinking, what is it? What is it that will make me happy or excited, maybe even proud and strong? What is it that I have to • do?

Have you ever just wanted to go do a certain something because you know it will make you feel a certain way? You remember how good you feel during and after you

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Well here comes the part where I plan to tell you about all of the things that make me feel like a better and healthier person. Telling everyone how I feel will make me smile.

First of all I want to hear all of my favorite songs and all of my favorite CDs and I want to hear them all the time. So I play them. I want people to stop fighting unless it's about something really important. I wish people would stop complaining about everything and stand up and take some action instead.

The one thing that would really make my day would be to go on a random road trip. I just want to get into a car and go down south somewhere. Or possibly a tropical island. Why the hell not, right? Just pack up and go somewhere whenever I felt like it and stay for however long I want or until the money runs out. Sometime after I get back from the trip and before I die, I want to write a book about my life.

I defiantly want to go fishing, that would finally settle the internal issue I have within myself as to whether or not fishing is boring orn

The e thing I do love to do that makes feel so calm is to open all of the~dows on a rainy day and crawl into_ bed with a good book or movie. "· "-

I love to go walking or running too, it relieves all of my stress and makes me laugh. I love to voice my opinion and tell people how I really feel. That makes me feel independent and slightly powerful and important. Right after that I would like to say that I like to just chill with my friends and do what we do best because it's always a good time with the girls.

I want to write a little letter to all the advertising company's that use women as sex symbols and disrespect their womanly beauty to sell products. I want to tell them that they suck and that they are teaching the young women today that they have to portray a certain image to be accepted in society. Well the list of all the things that I do and think that make me happy and smile could go on forever. What is most important here is that I want to stress the fact that we need to take time out to do things good for us. Life is too short and apparently we aren't going to live .forever. Live it up. Live it all up till you can't do it any more.

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