‘Real Life’ as easy as reading a book
By Julie Naughton
Senior Reporter
Real Life 101: (Almost) Surviving Your
First Year Out of College
By Susan Kleinman
MasterMedia Books
Nearly every graduate has fears about
facing the real world. Fears about every
thing from how to adapt to the corporate
culture to how to select an appropriate work
wardrobe and from obtaining and furnish
ing an affordable apartment to making a
budget.
Author Susan Kleinman addresses these
concerns and more in her “Real Life 101:
(Almost) Surviving Your First Year Out of
College.” In a breezy, entertaining style,
Kleinman puts the fears of recent or about
to-be graduates to rest.
Kleinman, a 1986 graduate of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, drew on her own
experiences and the experiences of more
recent graduates and career advisers, to put
together the advice she offers in her 28
chapter book.
Kleinman explains that she once faced
the problems that students now are facing;
she graduated from Penn without a job and
spent her entire summer trying to get into a
public relations training program.
“That slap on the backside they call
graduation can leave you cold, alone and
crying, and I was not looking forward to it
one little bit,” she wrote. “I received 57
‘ding letters’ . . . enough to wallpaper my
apartment...”
Finally, Kleinman got her spot (“I de
cided that the only thing worse than going to
a job was having to look for one.”) With
that accomplished, she had to find a clean,
livable apartment, learn how to slick to a
budget, and learn how to do her own taxes.
One of Kleinman’s best pieces of advice
concerns new graduates in jobs they hate. In
her “I’ll Show Myself'Out: What To Do If
You Hate Your Job” chapter, she advises
students not to stay in a hated job simply to
build credibility.
“Many of us take first jobs thinking
we’ve got to stay at least a year or two, to
build credibility,” Kleinman explained. “We
fear that leaving one job after only a few
months will make us less desirable to a
subsequent employer, and mark us as Highly
or irresponsible.
“This is simply not true. If you can
explain why you’re unhappy with your job
without being negative or whiny, and dem
onstrate that you have thoroughly researched
the new company so that a good fit is more
likely, your first strike probably won’t be
counted against you.”
She goes on to name several people that
left their jobs and didn’t regret their deci
sions, and backs up her opinion with advice
from a corporate head and a psychologist.
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Seniors to leave mark
around Mueller Tower
By Julie Naughton
Senior Reporter
and Julia Mikolajcik
Staff Reporter
The graduating class of 1990 will
leave its mark on the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln campus by improv
ing the area around UNL’s Mueller
Tower.
The senior gift committee, made
up of 10 to 12 student leaders, met last
week to discuss various ideas for this
year ’ s senior gift. The com m i lice a I so
decided on a different payment plan
for seniors.
Dave Zauha, Student Foundations
president, said the committee agreed
to raise money to plant flowers and
install benches around the Mueller
Bell Tower.
Zauha said a fountain also may be
installed, depending on how much
money is raised.
In the past, seniors were asked to
give S10 each year for three years.
This year, the money will be raised in
a different way, Zauha said. Seniors
will have a choice -- to give $25 over
two years, or pay $50 right away.
There will not be a set amount of
money for the gift this year.
“We will build as much as we
have money for,” Zauha said.
“Whatever money is raised will be
put into the improvements.”
To raise the money, Student Foun -
dations will sponsor a phonc-a-lhon,
starting Sunday. The group has ob
tained a list of seniors, and will call
them “until they’re all called,” Zauha
said.
“In the past, thcy’vcalways set an
amount and come up short,” said
Theresa Klein, director of public re
lations for the University of Nebraska
Foundation. “This year, Student
Foundation decided to raise the money
first and then decide what it would be
used for.”
The tradition of graduating classes
taking up a collection to buy a gift for
their university was resurrected by
the class of 1985, Klein said.
Although the results of collections
ideally arc in place by the time five
year reunions roll around, this isn’t
always the ease, Klein said. Some
times, the pledges aren’t raised.
Zauha said he thinks the senior
pro ject is important because it allows
the seniors to leave a mark on the
university.
“It lets the seniors give something
back to the university,” Zauha said.
“They’ve spent four or five years
here... and the gift will be something
that the seniors can have a little pride
in contributing to.”
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