Feb 28, 2007 | A Great Resume-Builder!

"Apply for the Annual Student Advisory Board. A Great Resume-Builder!", the email promises. The onslaught of emails from Experience, a website that "provides students and recent graduates with job listings", seems to me more of a nag rather than a helpful source. It is as though having a great resume is one of the pillars of future success, a great paycheck, and a job that anyone would die for- I wonder why people would want to mold themselves to become part of such a world. I for one envy those who can leave everything behind and take a plane and dance around the world, for example, unattached to commitments and responsibility, tasks and reminders, deadlines and due dates that seem to haunt my everyday life. I feel as though someone is duct-taping me as I sit in this chair, condemning me to a life of always trying to outbest my neighbor.

Today's college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according to a comprehensive new study by five psychologists who worry that the trend could be harmful to personal relationships and American society.

I wonder why. Maybe it's because without being so selfish you really can't get anywhere.

Sigh.

Also written on this day..

• 2010: Across the Olympic finish line
• 2005: Happy Digest #1
• 2004: Which book are you?