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One Fine Day
Anyone else who’s read Room can probably empathize with how creeped out I am by the story of the three girls held captive in Ohio for a decade.
“They said a 6-year-old also was found in the home.”
The book was disturbing enough when I read it a couple of years ago. But with the news from this week, I can’t get the book out of my head … and it is seriously creepy. I don’t want to imagine what those girls went through. And, because of Room, I kind of can … and it’s terrible.
Miami Zombie Day-mares
You guys. How are people not discussing the Miami Zombie face-eating attack from this weekend? I accidentally saw a picture of the victim’s face and now I’m scared to even close my eyes.
Need to find pictures of cute kittens. Stat.
Advice From a 105-Year-Old Banker
“I stopped wasting time on what people claimed a stock was worth and started looking at the numbers,” he says. “This may surprise you, but there were a large number of valuable buys during the Depression.”
![I told myself I’d deal with my B-school aspirations after the wedding…but this kind of school debt is terrifying. Also, studying for the GMAT is terrifying. Time to nut up or shut up? I’ll keep y’all posted.
moneyisnotimportant:
Have B-Schools become debtors’ prisons? - Fortune Management
In 2008, Brian Jenkins moved to Malibu, Calif., to start his MBA at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management. He had big ambitions for B-school, expecting the degree to help him land a six-figure-salary job in human resources at a top company.
Pepperdine seemed poised to deliver. When he was a mere applicant, the admissions director gave him a personal tour of the business school, which commands a stunning perch overlooking the Pacific. His student experience was “amazing,” he says, handing top marks to his professors and classmates. The weather – “perfect every day” – was an added perk.
To pay for it all, Jenkins took out $120,000 in loans. But his six-figure-salary job never materialized. “The career services staff basically said, ‘We’ll help you edit your resume, good luck out there,’” he recalls. “A lot of [my classmates] found jobs paying $55,000 to $65,000 per year, and they were very excited that they had a job.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq4skcN2gY1qch7b8o1_400.jpg)
I told myself I’d deal with my B-school aspirations after the wedding…but this kind of school debt is terrifying. Also, studying for the GMAT is terrifying. Time to nut up or shut up? I’ll keep y’all posted.
Have B-Schools become debtors’ prisons? - Fortune Management
In 2008, Brian Jenkins moved to Malibu, Calif., to start his MBA at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management. He had big ambitions for B-school, expecting the degree to help him land a six-figure-salary job in human resources at a top company.
Pepperdine seemed poised to deliver. When he was a mere applicant, the admissions director gave him a personal tour of the business school, which commands a stunning perch overlooking the Pacific. His student experience was “amazing,” he says, handing top marks to his professors and classmates. The weather – “perfect every day” – was an added perk.
To pay for it all, Jenkins took out $120,000 in loans. But his six-figure-salary job never materialized. “The career services staff basically said, ‘We’ll help you edit your resume, good luck out there,’” he recalls. “A lot of [my classmates] found jobs paying $55,000 to $65,000 per year, and they were very excited that they had a job.”
