Response: Week 10

Today in class several people presented their findings from an interview with an art director at a magazine of his or her choice. Many of the interviews had job advice for the students, which ranged from how to make your portfolio stand out to advice to stay in school and not graduate. Ironically, when I came home this evening to catch the end of NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams and company showed a short piece entitled, "Hard times facing class of '09." It's an interesting, but sobering piece of news for the 1.5 million to-be graduates like us. One line that stood out to me the most was the fact that graduates will be making less money than their peers before them because of the current economic crisis, and history shows that the wages will never catch up. And in case you aren't counting, graduation for MU is t-minus 38 days from now.