This week’s installment of Ro&Co features Samira’s guide to making the most of that sacred weekend morning meal: Brunch! So you’ve finally worked up the courage to do it alone. Brunch, that is. The one thing where you just HAVE to go with friends and catch up on all the wild (or tame) things you’ve done over the weekend, the one meal it’s actually socially acceptable to be incredibly loud and obnoxious. Switch gears for a second, though. Remember, this is something you decided to do alone this time. You made a reservation on OpenTable, and booked a table for one. Or your friend cancelled on you 12 hours…
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Attending Conferences and Choosing your Summer Opportunity | Ask GTGAJ
The third episode of Ask Get This Girl a Job is here! Katie and Rosana answer your questions about networking, references, and how to approach finding your first job. Get This Girl a Job is a podcast that tries to demystify the job search by sharing the stories of recent college graduates as they made their way into the workforce for the first time! Ask GTGAJ is a special episode, that Katie and I co-host, where we try to answer your questions about your own job search. You can read more about GTGAJ here! This week talked with Priya Lingutla about the value of attending conferences and how to approach…
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Balancing Your Art and College
In this week’s installment of Ro&Co, Elizabeth shares how she balances her dream of becoming a writer with her major, her extracurriculars, and her life in college. It’s normal for college students to have a job, or even more than one, that they have to balance with all of the other chaotic aspects of college, but those jobs come with a perk: you get paid to do them. Over the last seven years I have spent to majority of my free time on a job that I don’t get paid for. At least not yet. For most people writing and other forms of art are hobbies to do on the…
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4 Coffee Shops for Studying in Chicago
Finals week studying have you down? In this week’s installment of Ro&Co, Marianne Dolan shares her top 4 coffee shops to study in around Chicago! Make the most of your reading period and explore the city while you work! Perhaps you’re not a fan of brutalist architecture. Or maybe it’s just demoralizing that you get more social interaction on the first floor of the library during finals week than you’ve had the entire rest of the quarter. Be antisocial yet adventurous with these gems of coffee shops. Peach & Green – South Loop Peach & Green is like the Zendaya of coffee shops. Just as I genuinely wonder if there’s…
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Informational Interviews for Nonprofits | GTGAJ S1E4 feat. Stephanie Miklaszewski
In this week’s episode of Get This Girl a Job, Rosana talks to Stephanie Miklaszewski about her journey to working for Junior Achievement of Chicago, a nonprofit in Chicago that teaches financial literacy to students k-12. Get This Girl a Job in Nonprofits! Stephanie graduated from UChicago in 2017. She juggled part time jobs and school, trying to find the right path for her and making the most of her time and effort. When she decided not to go to grad school, she had to scramble to find the right alternative. With the skills she had picked up through those part time jobs and her work with her sorority, and…
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4 Steps to Actually Making it to the Gym in this Godforesaken Tundra | Ro&Co
In this week’s installment of Ro&Co, my friend Claire, ex-college athlete and pre-med student, shares her tips for keeping to a workout plan in the winter so you can keep to your New Year’s resolutions! Running during the Winter can be a massive hassle, especially in Chicago. It’s really cold outside and it gets dark before 5 pm so if you want to run, you’re going to end up on a treadmill more often than not. Because treadmill running can get pretty redundant, here are a few of my tips for sticking out the winter months without too much misery or too many skipped workouts. 1. Bring Workout Clothes to…
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6 Steps to Making the Most of Your Winter Break
Whether you’re finishing your last final or you’ve been on island time since Friday, the warm embrace of winter break is here. The longest span of time you’ll have without needing to pick up a job, winter break can be the most relaxing couple weeks of your whole year. This is how I’ve learned to make the most of my break so I’m ready for the hell of winter quarter. Once fall finals are over, every college student is launched into almost a month of “free time.” Whether it’s your first break back from college or you’re a pro, I’ve found there are a few things you can do to…
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Christmas in Chicago for Under $25 | #RoOnTheGo
Sometimes, in the rush of finals and getting ready for winter break, it can be easy to forget how absolutely beautiful the holiday season in Chicago can be. Despite how frigid Chicago winters can be, the city goes all out for Christmas so here is my guide to making the most of it for less than $25 in the remaining day or two before you head home! Anyone who has been around me in the last couple weeks knows I have been in full Christmas mode since before Thanksgiving. With so much to take advantage of in the city and the impending doom of finals upon me, I embraced the…
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For the 10 Friends You Have in College | Festive Favorites
Finals are here, we are drowning. Did you forget that it’s also the last week that you’ll see the people getting you through them? Here are cheap (and Amazon Prime-able!) gifts for those 10 friends you have in college. T-minus 5 days (and 4 finals) to Winter Break. Call me crazy, but it may have slipped your mind to get a little something for the most important people in your life: your college friends. So here are 10 (Amazon Prime ready!) gifts to make their finals week and tell them just how much you love them. Several links in this post are affiliate links, which means that I may receive…
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The 15 Min Stanford Study Hack To Get You That A
Finals have returned and I can already sense the impending doom. This summer, I read about a study hack that in just 15 minutes could be the difference between a B+ and an A. So this finals season, I am putting it to the test, and hopefully so can you! Finals week is arguably the most stressful period of the quarter and lucky for us, we get three sets of them. With reading period starting and only so many days before the dreaded economics exam, I am always looking for ways to make the most out of the limited studying time. I came across this article about a study by…
