Career Advice

What is a behavioral interview?

Before any interview, you should always do your homework on the company and the position you’re interviewing for. Even if it’s just a phone screen, recruiters will expect that you have done your basic homework. Here are the top 5 things you should do before going into your next interview.

Maybe the library at 2am is just starting to feel like home, and maybe you finally feel comfortable and accomplished in your academic pursuits; but as the bitterly-named “best four years of your life” threaten to coat themselves with the impenetrable sheen of nostalgia, you are forced to consider, “what’s next?” Imminent graduation and those months of limbo that follow it bring new challenges of friendship, love, and existential dread that define the end of adolescence, but these authors weave philosophy and masterful storytelling to show us that even the best minds don’t have to have all the answers and that the anxious struggle against the unknown future is not degrading, it is literary.

Although the years of college applications are long gone, you may still come across occasions where a job, a contest, or a fellowship opportunity sits you down in front of a blank document, with five or seven hundred words to put yourself on paper, and try to get yourself what you want.

What is Private Equity?

Everyone keeps telling us that we are so young. When they say that, I think about the First World War. At twenty-three, I would have been a well-seasoned soldier. Or, of course, a well-seasoned nurse, stenographer, fiancée. War crosses my mind in these moments not out of morbidity but in some attempt to contextualize that word: young. At twenty-three, I leave a plastic packet of rice boiling for too long while talking to a friend on the phone. The packet is charred and smoking. In some other slice of time and space, I could be a mother. There is no 10-minute, boil-in-bag option for trench warfare, or babies.

There comes a point in life when you realize: the government isn’t real. It’s a collective delusion. We have all agreed to respect it. Its enforcement may be real; it is not.

I met Mona on the same day the plane crashed in Findlay, Ohio. Early Sunday morning, my editor called me to say that a small plane carrying two passengers had gone down, nobody had any details yet, and that I’d be going with Mona, a photographer, to find the wreck and cover the story.

First published on October 29, 2015 on Modern Love