LinkedIn Said My Degree Is a Brand
Career fair panel told us to personal brand our research interests. I study labor precarity. Hard to fit on a banner. The recruiter wanted buzzwords. I wante...
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Cassidy Monroe
The Textbook Costs More Than My Rent Week
I am an econ grad student. The intermediate micro text costs $312 used. My professor said it is the standard. Standard for what? Crushing Gen Z? Classmates s...
I Don't Have a Five-Year Plan. I Have a Pulse.
A graduating senior argues that refusing to fake a five-year plan isn't paralysis — it's the most honest response to an unknowable future.
The $180 Textbook and the Man Who Wrote It
College textbook prices are a systemic failure — and the campus bookstore cashier is not the villain. An editorial on academic publishing's quiet predation.
The Rational Consumer Is a Lie We Agreed to Tell
The rational consumer assumption at the heart of economics is a fiction. Here's why homo economicus has never existed — and why that matters for policy.