Editor’s Note: The Daily’s Tyler Branson and Katie Parker offer advice every Wednesday based on issues concerning students.
I just realized I’m graduating in a month. What should I do to make money?
Tyler: Ideally, you should follow your heart and your passion, which will hopefully manifest itself in a way for you to make a living.
But this isn’t the ideal world, this is the hellish reality we’ve been unfairly thrown into. A reality that includes job losses and shortages, and employers apparently unable to hire to a 22-year-old graduate with a liberal arts degree and a wicked beer pong shot.
Katie: I don’t normally suggest selling your body to the night, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
I don’t wear Northface or Ugg Boots. Am I unlikable?
Tyler: It may be tempting, but I must advise you to stay away from those horrendous trends. These trends are similar to growing a mullet or wearing bell bottom jeans: everybody had them, but in 20 years, your kids will look at old pictures of you and call you an idiot.
Katie: No! I already like you! You sound like a semi-intelligent person. Congrats!
I need a politically correct way to ask someone out. “You’ve been running through my mind” just doesn’t work anymore.
Tyler: There’s a fine line between cheese and genuine interest. Ultimately, the best thing you can do is smile, say hello, and hope her boyfriend isn’t lingering in the shadows somewhere waiting to get you both thrown out of 747.
Katie: Once a guy told me my hair smelled like I stuck it in a washing machine. It didn’t work out. Corny comments are just flat out awkward and sound insincere. A simple conversational jogger about something going on around you tends to work.
-Tyler Branson is an Engish senior and Katie J. Parker is a journalism senior.
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eightbitgirl 3 years, 1 month ago
More people need to realize that Northface + Ugg + leggings is THE tackiest thing ever. The sooner this is realized, the better.
mustafa 3 years, 1 month ago
Re; Dating -try this
Say to her " Hi my name is (your name here)and I was wondering if its possible to get to know you well, because I sure would like to."
Maintain eye contact, while speaking with you eyes, and use an entriguing inflection in your voice.
Practice makes perfect, so practice on girls that you have no interest in and don't care if they take you up on it.
Remember there are plenty of good looking babes so play the percentages.
Soon you have so many girlfriends, people will assume you must be rich.