New and Improved!

We had a good run here at Scholar Scoop, but we decided to create a whole new blog that showcases the best of NSCS, its members and everything that college students care about. We’re excited to announce Talk Nerdy to Me, a blog about college life. Bookmark it now or add to your favorite feed [...]

Convention Highlights

This year’s Convention was an amazing event, with dozens of great workshops, speakers and networking opps. But I decided to pick just a few highlights to feature in this blog post, to give you a small taste of the event. 1. The Honor Gala: Seeing all the NSCS chapters get recognized for their great work [...]

NSCS Members Share Ten Most Important Employer Attributes

Each year NSCS members participate in a survey that is conducted by Universum which provides insight into how undergraduates perceive employer brands and how students are making decisions about places they would be willing to pursue for employment.  This year 10,060 NSCS members participated in the survey that included 60,930 total students participants. Claudia Tattanelli, [...]

Choose your path, don’t let it choose you.

How many times do you hear about people just out of college taking a job that they aren’t really excited about, but justify it by saying, “I am just going to work here for a few years until I pay off my loans, then I’ll do what I really want to do?” You know what [...]

A Nice Way to Start the Day

I have found that oatmeal is a great way to start the day. It provides plenty of fiber, good carbs and protein and it really fills me up. Oatmeal is also a great way to lower your cholesterol. Oatmeal is easy and fast to make and you can add whatever you’d like to make it [...]

Your 2009 Job Outlook: Not All is Lost

If you just graduated,  these words of advice from NSCS’ Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, John Crowley,  will be helpful. Ok, I know.  We’ve all heard the same news.  Corporations are failing.  People are out of work with few prospects on the horizon.  Prices for goods and services are increasing, and we feel helpless in [...]

A Nice Refreshing Summer Salad

Keep an open mind when you read this recipe. Last night, I was BBQ’ing and thought that watermelon would be a nice addition to the meal. Rather than simply slicing up the watermelon I had in the fridge, I thought a nice refreshing salad would be tastier and a lot more fun. Here’s what I [...]

How to stop procrastinating

It took me a long time to write this post because I kept putting it off (kidding). Actually, it didn’t take me long to write this, once I decided that I wanted to. And I’m starting to see how that works in other areas of my life too. As I’ve written about before, I’m a [...]

As A “Matter” of Fact…

Have you ever said to yourself, “Do I really matter?” or “Does anything I try to do everyday really matter?”….I think it is a pretty common thought. There is probably not a person in the world who doesn’t want to matter and, possibly more importantly, doesn’t want their life to matter. We are all human. [...]

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