Posted on Mon, Aug 01, 2011 @ 01:02 PM

We’re more than halfway through the baseball season now and if you’re anything like me, you enjoy a good baseball game. Even after you start teaching English in Korea, you shouldn’t be too concerned about being cut off from your favorite sport. Naturally, you won’t be able to attend Major League games anymore, but what Korean baseball lacks in players, it makes up for in enthusiasm.
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Posted on Fri, Mar 11, 2011 @ 11:31 AM

My little brother is a senior in college right now, graduating in May from one of the top schools in the US. He’s a double major, has great grades and extracurricular activities, and in my opinion is a really, really smart guy. When I spoke to him earlier this week, he seemed pretty down. He’d just gotten word that job he’d interviewed for in New York City had suddenly been swooped off the table by a sudden “job freeze.”
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Posted on Wed, Mar 02, 2011 @ 11:25 AM

Two years ago, I was a senior in college, trying to enjoy the last few months of life as a carefree student before stepping into the deep, dark, unknown commonly referred to as the “real world.” After a lot of careful deliberation and a sobering analysis of the American job market (especially for History and English majors), I decided to move to Asia for a year to work as a teacher.
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