» Benjamin Baxter

Table veterans can tell someone’s new by the way he sits at the end and scoots his chair in, only to knock his knees against a poorly-placed support.

I ALREADY KNOW I WANT TO STICK AROUND Fresno State; great things are afoot here. Once I realized how much Fresno State had grown on me over the last few years, I realized also that I don’t want to leave. Graduate school has never seemed so far away, or so certain.

The Table is the place to be if you’re in band, choir or orchestra. Veneer and a solid finish have kept this music department hangout spot looking good through the years, and, owing to the erratic scheduling of music classes, there’s almost always good company to be found here.

Imagine that’s the weekend. I’m writing this post during the weekend, so it’s probably a lot easier for me to imagine this than for you.

This particular Saturday evening comes after three enjoyable, one passable and what might as well have been nine horrid weekdays worth of unshaven, unwashed and sometimes disinterested high school sophomores.

I read dystopias and apocalyptic fiction. Those are by far my favorite genres. The other day, I found a real gem in some fictional footnotes in one of them.

JOB FAIRS ARE A GREAT WAY TO GET a lot of interviews in with prospective employers, though the savvy graduate should already have a job lined up.

This is not for those graduates.

YOU WOULDN’T KNOW IT BY LOOKING AT MY overgrown, pudgy exterior, but I’m an adventurer. I’m an explorer, and one in the very best tradition of elephant rifles and safari caps. Just one of the many things I learned at the local library.
It’s too late for the exiting seniors, but Fresno State students [...]

ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER BATCH OF seniors looking for jobs, another batch of job fairs. Another chance for another first impression. Another mind-numbing column in The Collegian that tries to remind you of the importance of first impressions.

Though USA Today reported that the job market for new college grads was about to heat up despite a poorly performing economy, assume they’re just as wrong on that as they are on their editorial pages.

FOR EXACTLY ONE HOUR SATURDAY evening, lights went out in San Francisco, Chicago and the larger part of Australia.

It was all planned that way.