The Day After Graduation

Why Learning Shouldn’t Stop After Graduation

This content is not written by The New Pelican There’s this quiet lie a lot of us grow up believing. You go to school, work hard, get a degree, and then you think you’ve learned what you needed to learn. Period. I used to think that too. But the more time I spent in the real world, the more obvious it became that graduation doesn’t put an end to your education. It just changes the environment. There’s no more syllabus. No more teachers reminding…

The day after graduation

The Jewish communitys commitment to its college students is one of the most remarkable things about Jewish life today: Hillels, Chabad houses and dozens of other organizations, staffed by some of the most dedicated people in the Jewish world, backed by extraordinary philanthropic investment. Perhaps no other moment in the Jewish life cycle receives anything close to this concentration of resources, talent and love. But college doesn’t last forev…