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Wilkes University Puts Freshman Recruits Front and Center and Billboard-Size
04 May 08 03:56 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Wilkes University, a small, private school in northeastern Pennsylvania, is using a quirky new in-your-face $120,000 ad campaign to get the attention of today’s media- and marketing-savvy students. The university is plastering personalized messages on billboards, pizza boxes, gas pumps, and even on MTV, VH1, and Comedy Central to students it wants to make a part of its freshman class. Read More...

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Can’t Find Your Friends? Check the Library
17 January 08 08:26 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Libraries aren’t what they used to be. No more stuffy, hair-bun-bearing librarians, no more thumbing through cumbersome card catalogs, and no more getting lost in aisles of endless Encyclopedia Britannicas. Libraries are now high-tech, high-speed information Read More...

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Like Bees to Honey, Social Scientists Drawn to Facebook
21 December 07 07:20 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Facebook is where you go to get the scoop on friends. Who’s still together and who’s broken up? Who went to last weekend’s tailgate party? Who do you know in London who wants to add you to their network? And who just got a job? But did you know, that Read More...

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Kickin’ It with Craigslist: Facebook Offers New Marketplace Classifieds
29 May 07 06:15 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

You might say that Craigslist is a bit like an old friend—we have been through a lot together. It is a great place for college students to hang out and find and sell all kinds of stuff. I even have received tons of part-time gigs off my local Craigslist Read More...

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Social Networking: Hip, Cool and Fun … But Be Smart
02 February 07 06:19 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

There now is little doubt about social networking becoming an integral part of our culture. It almost is a foregone conclusion. I know you and your friends for years have been into MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, and many other such networks. But mom and Read More...

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CIA Socializes: Getting a Job through FaceBook, MySpace, Whatever
26 January 07 08:18 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Could it be that social networks are becoming an embedded piece of our culture, no longer just limited to college geeks, party mongers, and those who are hip and in the know? That would appear to be the case. Just last month the CIA, that is, the Central Read More...

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