Q1: "What item did you bring to college that was more useful than you expected?"
When I came to college as a first year student, I brought way too much junk, like a lot of other freshmen did. However unlike other students, I have yet to figure out how to decrease the amount of useless things I have and have just been amassing an ungodly quantity of stuff.
That being said, it’s difficult to pin down just one item that has been more useful than ALL the other things. If I have to choose, the most useful thing I’ve brought to college is a one foot tall blue, plastic plant.
Actually, I didn’t bring this at all. My roommate’s mother insisted upon us having table centerpiece to go with our Solo cup and chicken flavored ramen wrapper-covered décor.
It might be a little strange to be worried about flowery decorations when it comes to college living; I thought so at first, until I realized that I could hide stuff in the leaves of the plastic plant.
Now, I keep my pencils, paperclips, stash of Chick-fil-A sauce packets, social security card, my life’s savings, my toothbrush, spare change, tire iron and my inhaler in the little fake plant. I even hid a camera in there once and taped a video of my roommate singing and dancing to the Pineapple Pen song in his underwear. The uses of plastic plants are endless.
*note: Seeing as we only have five readers, as Austin never forgets to remind us, if you try to steal my stash of sauce packets with this information, it won’t be difficult to find out who you are.
Q2: “What are the best colors to wear to an interview?”
Everyone has heard the saying, “Dress for the job you want, not for the job you have.” The idea is that you should dress fancy in hopes of getting a fancy job, or some nonsense like that.
It’s a nice idea, but how are you supposed to afford a $300 dollar suit on the budget of a waiter? Sure, you want to be a high class business man one day, but you’re not one now. So, you can’t afford to be parading as one.
Let’s be realistic here. In our ever decreasing changes of using our, now commonplace, college degrees to get a well playing job, we should look to dressing for the jobs we can realistically get, rather than the ones we want.
For people like nursing majors, this is all too easy. They should wear scrubs. All the useful majors can work with this perk. Artists can wear berets and smocks, actors should wear dramatic masks, musicians should wear flannel, meat dresses or suits, depending on their genre, and writers can go with the standard artistic-homeless-person look, complete with a fluffy beard and ironic graphic tees.
All others should just go with the best job they can get. An apron or hard hat should do just fine.
Good luck on the job hunt!
