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So, I am graduating in a few weeks. As I think over that, and all the totally awesome times I’ve had at BU, I’ve decided to see how I might share those experiences with you, the faithful reader. Now I don’t intend to do this with self-indulgent anecdotes that sound so cool to me but would ultimately bore you to tears, but instead, I hope to instruct you on how to do these things for yourself. First up? Wicked pissah music career. (Career is used loosely. I never made all that much money, but I played all over. It was fun. Here’s how you can do it, too.)
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In continuation of my “How to have a totally awesome four years here” series, I’ve decided to make some bar endorsements. I’m not talking about the best place to chill with your favorite light domestic beer (for that I wholeheartedly recommend Our House West because it has great couches, a secret bar in the back, games to play, and it’s never crowded). I’m mean a place where you can get a well made cocktail and hang out.
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It sucks. The recession is real. I was, until very recently, a paid PR intern at a local insurance company. It went down like this: They brought me into an office and informed me that my position doesn’t exist any more. BAM!! My bread and butter, gone. The company knew I was going to leave when I graduated in a few weeks, so showing me the door at this stage was a real kick in the teeth. Then they axed a couple of my superiors, one of whom was the most competent PR person the company had. Absurd.
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I’ve been 21 for 364 days now. Because you’re most likely not all that interested in a long-winded recap, let me give you the short version: London, Boston, Playing Clubs, School, Summer, Working, Sailing, No Girlfriend, Beach, Girlfriend, School, Christmas, Now. It was pretty awesome.
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The green room downstairs at the The Middle East club in Cambridge is tiny. It’s a small box of a room crammed with couches and a table that make it almost impossible to move around. If there’s more than one band playing on any particular night (and when isn’t there?), the green room becomes less of a retreat from the chaos outside and more of a stifling container for sweaty performers to bump into one another. This is enough to diva-proof The Middle East. What you’ll find here are local acts that are excited to play this Boston staple, and those medium-sized touring acts that aren’t afraid to have a few drinks at the bar in the room before they take the stage. And that’s only part of what gives The Middle East its character.
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There’s something to be said for The New Yorker’s minimalist design. The cover (for subscribers) offers no teasers, and the pages within hold little more than blocks of text occasionally interrupted by illustrations. There are no flashy design elements, no large-print quotes to keep you reading, there is little more than text.
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Esquire recently listed the seven greatest stories it has ever published. The story that took the top slot was “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” by Gay Talese, and it is a masterpiece. Take a moment to read it (after reading my post, please).
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I’ve written my fair share of posts about the future of journalism and The Christian Science Monitor, so it seems only natural that I mention its Future of Journalism event last Thursday. The event, in part sponsored by COM, gathered Ellen Hume, the Research Director for the Center for Future Civic Media at MIT, Mark Jurkowitz, the Associate Director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, Douglas K. Smith, the Executive Director of The Sulzberger News Media Executive Leadership Program, and Sree Sreenivasan, the head of the new media program and Dean of Student Affairs at Columbia University’s journalism school, in a conversation with John Yemma, the Editor of the Monitor.
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To Facebook, AJ Vaynerchuk is “a perfect gentleman” from New Jersey who appreciates The Departed and Saw I. He’s a senior in COM where he’s majoring in advertising with a minor in computer science. He’s also an entrepreneur. Vaynerchuk is a co-owner and founder of pleasedress.me, a t-shirt search engine that has gotten huge buzz and serves as a link between specialty t-shirt designers and the average consumers.
