>>
>> My wife and I went out to see MADAGASCAR 2 last night with our son  
>> and one of his friends.  The Warren was sold out, which made me  
>> sad, so we went on to Norman to watch it there.  It was great.
>>
>> While we were in Norman, we ate at Santa Fe Steakhouse.  With  
>> peanut shells all over the floor, no one notices the mess your kid  
>> makes.  A big plus.
>>
>> The server that took our order was cute as a bug’s ear, confident,  
>> and had a husky voice like Kathleen Turner.  (I’m an observant  
>> writer, trained in my craft, so I notice things like this.  My  
>> wife, also very observant, laughs at me.)  Given the fact that many  
>> servers in restaurants around Norman are also college students, I  
>> asked the server if she was, indeed, a college student.  She said  
>> she was, majoring in nursing, and graduating in May.
>>
>> (I keep looking for someone majoring in Anthropology as a personal  
>> quest because I keep thinking I’d like a masters in that.  Sadly, I  
>> haven’t found anyone yet.  It’s a personal quest.  I know they  
>> exist, but they must be like leprechauns.  Or maybe independently  
>> wealthy so they don’t have to work.  I refuse to believe that  
>> they’re really lab rats getting paid for having audacious  
>> experiments performed on them by professors that were banned from  
>> working in the real world.  But I digress…)
>>
>> Anyway, after learning about Folio 21 from Sarah Cole last week and  
>> being impressed with what the program entails, I asked Liz (yep, I  
>> always get people’s names and can generally remember them hours and  
>> sometimes months later – especially young women with husky voices  
>> like that) if she’d heard of Folio 21.  She hadn’t, and she’s  
>> worried about finding a job.
>>
>> And she’s GRADUATING IN MAY!
>>
>> So I told her to go to Career Services and look into the Folio 21  
>> program.  (Sarah, I used your name shamelessly!)  She thanked me  
>> for the info, and even stopped me on the way out while on an  
>> extremely busy shift to thank me again as we left.  I made her  
>> promise to tell at least five friends.  Kind of a PAY IT FORWARD  
>> thing.
>>
>> If you slept through class or were thinking about lunch/dinner (or  
>> some significant other out to destroy what little life you have)  
>> while Sarah was talking about this, here’s a recap:  President  
>> Boren has paid for every student this year to have access to this  
>> service.  Folio 21 provides a website resume that you can control,  
>> alter, and even split off into separate pages for different job  
>> applications.  For $25 per year after you graduate, the site will  
>> remain there for you.
>>
>> Since you guys are going to have at least 13-15 jobs throughout  
>> your professional lives (and apply for jobs many, MANY more times  
>> than that), and since the world has gone high-tech, I think Folio  
>> 21 is a fantastic weapon to have in your job-hunting arsenal.  More  
>> people should know about it.
>>
>> Now I’m challenging you guys.  I want you to please tell your  
>> friends about Folio 21.  I want you to Facebook and MySpace about  
>> it.  I want you to blog about it, and your experience signing up  
>> for it when you do that.
>>
>> Adam, Christy, Will, somebody should really feature this  
>> information at the Daily and archive it on-line somewhere.  And a  
>> few success stories based on Folio 21’s performance shouldn’t be  
>> hard to find.  Think of them as human interest pieces.
>>
>> Information about Folio 21 can be found here.
>>
>> http://www.ou.edu/career/Students/OurServices/Folio21.html
>>
>> If you have any questions, lemme know.
>>
>> Best,
>> Mel
>>
>>
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> Gaylord College of Journalism & Mass Communication
> 395 W. Lindsey Street
> Norman, OK  73019
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