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Internships open many doors
Posted by: WittyRuby on: April 8, 2008
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NORTHERN STAR
Published on Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Internships open many doors
By JILL KOZAK
What do you do when you are composing a resume to send to your dream job, only to realize you have little to no experience in that field?
Capitalize on your GPA? Expand upon the significance of your related course work? Hide the fact that [...]
Bachelor’s degrees aren’t what they used to be
Posted by: WittyRuby on: March 28, 2008
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Published on Friday, March 28, 2008
By SARA ADAMS
Blake Zenteno / Northern Star
There is a mantra many of us say to get through these stressful years of lectures, tests and term papers: It will all pay off in the end.
But as I slowly make my way into the job market, I am realizing an alarming fact: [...]
Internship Opportunities in Public Service
Posted by: WittyRuby on: November 25, 2007
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Funding for Asian Undergraduate Students in US with Summer Non-Profit
Internships
Freeman ASSIST, generously sponsored by the Freeman Foundation, offers educational allowances to outstanding East and Southeast Asian undergraduate students who are pursuing summer internships at not-for-profit organizations in their host community or elsewhere in the United States. Undergraduate students from Brunei, Cambodia, China, East Timor, [...]
A Boring Task Today
Posted by: WittyRuby on: December 5, 2005
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A Boring Task Today
Well, I’m working part-time in the library .
Founders Memorial Library (Picture: http://www.cob.niu.edu/picturedatabase/00411.jpg)
Today I have to do a crazy stuff again: remove all the pencil marks that someone left in books. I think everybody shouldn’t underline in books that they borrow from the library.
I don’t like to erase each page but I have no choice. It’s easy [...]
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Nursing News
- Managers must look after nurses' mental wellbeing, says NICE November 5, 2009More attention should be paid to the mental wellbeing of nurses and other NHS staff, according to latest NICE guidelines.
- Government in the dark on uptake of swine flu vaccine November 8, 2009The Department of Health has admitted that it has no national data on uptake of swine flu vaccine among frontline hospital staff.
- Nurses prepare for Afghanistan November 8, 2009Clinical staff from Guy’s and St Thomas’ staff have been preparing for deployment to Afghanistan along with other army reservists in what is the largest group called up from a London hospital since the Korean War.
Health
- Anti-Aging Medicine – Hope, Hype Or Hucksters? November 8, 2009Anti-aging can be a difficult topic to address because it has a number of different common meanings and connotations. Each is championed by a particular group or coalition of interests which define their terms in ways that can make the subject confusing. For the scientific community, anti-aging research refers exclusively to slowing, preventing, or reversing […]Jorg Mardian RHN, CPT
- Sure You’re getting Older, But Are You Aging Well? October 25, 2009Someone once said that all human beings, from the earliest age, are on a slow road to death. By that it was meant that we have a limited lifespan which eventually ends, though many young people don’t seem to realize it. Fact is, everything around us has limitations – beginnings and [...]Jorg Mardian RHN, CPT
- Don’t Take A Vacation From Health October 14, 2009I just came back from a ten day seminar with a very enlightened view of travelling and health. Let me tell you, when you get 300 people in a conference room and two or three of them have a cold, an interesting phenomenon happens: quite a few in the room will get sick within the [...]Jorg Mardian RHN, CPT
- Get Out Of That Used Body And Get Into A New Life! September 27, 2009A while back I spoke to a distressed senior who was told that his condition of general weakness and bodily pain was the inevitable result of aging. Now naturally, I disagree with such simple advice, as it is not rooted in wisdom. Where does the idea come from that age takes away [...]Jorg Mardian RHN, CPT
- Eggs, The Myth Of Cholesterol And Exercise September 21, 2009During a lively debate on nutrition, a good friend the other day raised the link between eggs and cholesterol. This subject is one of curiosity because rather than being a culprit of disease, eggs are actually very good for us. First, we have to understand that cholesterol is not necessarily bad. Humans need it to [...]Jorg Mardian RHN, CPT
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