Clickty Click: NYT Addition

The New York Times has had a number of young-american type articles that are worth a read:

• Young Americans Are Leaning Left, New Poll Finds
• Save That Money
• Wikipedia: All the News That’s Fit to Print Out
• Two-Year College: The Two-Year Attraction

Read Up!: Drinking with Giraffes Edition

• Drunk students in Lithuania climb into a zoo’s Giraffe cage.
• A federal student loan official is finally resigning.
• More reports on outrageous cruise parties student loan companies threw.

The Graduates

MSNBC.com has a special section on this years graduates, and five kids who are on the job hunt. The section is short, but at least we don’t have to pay for it like the New York Times.

I Wish I Could Read It

Hey New York Times!

You always run that little line “Help the neediest,” well, HELP US!

On the New York Times web site there’s this new oped by college students moving into the “real” life job market. It looks awesome. I really want to read it, but OOPS, you have to have a Times Select account to see it, but that costs money, and I don’t have any. Today’s looks awsome, here’s the tease from the front of NYT.com:

The Graduates: College Seniors Face the Future
Michael Erler looks at three ways to make the transition from college to work.

I want to read it! Make it free damn it!

TimesSelect (it’s on the right hand rail)

Student Loan Tragedy

As American Idol raises more money for people in Africa I want to point to an important issue: the whole student loan scandal.

This problem is about money, but it’s more than that.

Institutions we should be able to trust like banks, universities, the government, and financial aid officers are screwing an entire generation over. We’ll be paying back our loans for many, many, years; and might be poor forever.

I’m really upset with colleges. After we paid so much money already, they totally deceived us.  And yet they still send us envelopes every month to donate money every month. FUCK NO!

Read Up: Student Loan Scandals: Who’s To Blame