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A blank scroll since the beginning
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One of the most remarkable aspects of websites is they
have no history. Most are updated periodically, and most are redesigned
periodically, given some sort of stylish "facelift" to somehow
disguise all the old content and make it all look new again.
But what did it look like 5 years ago, if it existed
five years ago? For most website owners, that would be a good question
since no one seems to archive their own website. The old one is shed like
a snake's skin and the new larger one emerges.
But what does it say about a medium where there is no
past, no history, no memory?
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What's the KEY to paying off those student loans?
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In today's Star Tribune was an article that
resonated with me in ways most people wouldn't imagine. It brought me
back to my own post-graduate experience with finding a job, then paying
off a student loan. Only in my case, the loan was less than $2,000 and
the interest rate was 3%.
The article followed a recent graduate who ended up with
a $94,000 debt, something that was a bit difficult to pay-off taking school
pictures, the only job she could find after college.*
During college, she never worried about her accruing
debt, how the interest rate kept piling on and exactly how many years
it would take to pay off? How could this have been avoided?
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^ thrilled parents
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Last weekend, I enrolled my oldest daughter at a college.
Although she didn't say it directly, she was very nervous about the whole
affair. She threw up before we left for the campus to enroll and attend
all the seminars and tours. Yes, it could have been some bad sushi from
the night before, but as her dad, I don't think so. She was miserable:
I was thrilled and so was my wife and we didn't care how she felt at this
point in the process.
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