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Job Outlook for College Graduates Not Encouraging
04 December 08 02:20 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Up-and-coming college graduates may soon face one of the toughest job markets in years as they encounter employers who are scaling back hiring and a job market flooded with hundreds of thousands of recently unemployed workforce veterans. Just last month, Read More...

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NextStudent Web Marketing Team Shifts Direction of Student Loan Blog
26 February 08 04:02 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

To better serve you and carry out our mission of being your one-stop destination for all your education financing needs, the NextStudent Web Marketing team is moving our Student Loan Blog in a whole new direction. In the days ahead, you’ll see the Student 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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Online Ordering Causing Mailroom Mayhem on College Campuses
27 December 07 11:46 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The internet has completely changed the way college campuses operate, from class offerings and registration to college admissions and financial aid services. Now the technology is changing the way campuses deliver and receive mail. As more college students Read More...

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Amazon and SpiralFrog Looking to Cut Into iTunes' Market Share
05 October 07 02:03 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Spurred by the monolithic popularity of iTunes and the decline of CD sales, veteran online retailers like Amazon.com , start-ups like SpiralFrog and other companies are clamoring to get into the fray of digital music on demand. With so much competition, Read More...

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Could Google Go Obsolete?
04 October 07 05:29 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The programmers and executives at San Francisco–based startup Powerset are hoping that the answer to this question will be “yes” once they debut their search engine that operates on natural-language technology. Powerset finally offered its first public Read More...

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Happy Birthday to :-)
28 September 07 01:13 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

To send e-mails or chat online without emoticons would be like listening to your computer’s artificial voice read an excerpt from the Harry Potter books—you may get the plot, but Harry’s spells are no longer frantic and Voldemort’s hissed threats no longer Read More...

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