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Professionalizing yourself is key in any field when applying for any job. The students were also urged to maintain strong relationships with their professors, due to the fact that is how many of these alumni managed to obtain jobs post-graduation.

Vincent DeFruscio, an English and communication major on the panel, said, “The biggest mistake you can make as a freshman is not getting involved with the school. Do not disregard what your professors tell you, but know yourself better than anyone else and go with your instinct.”

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Date: Friday, Nov. 4, 2005

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Alan Greenspan isn’t leaving his job as Federal Reserve chairman until January, but George Bush has already announced his choice for a successor to the 79-year-old outgoing chief.

Ben Bernanke, 51, is a former Princeton University economist and former governor of the Federal Reserve.He is now chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisors and is widely considered a well-qualified and “safe” choice, especially in light of the widespread opposition to Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court.

“My first priority will be to maintain continuity with the policy and policy strategies under the Greenspan era,” said Bernanke in a joint appearance with the president today, according to msnbc.com.

Iraqi Kurdistan hit by bombs

There have been several bomb explosions in the largely-Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah in north-eastern Iraq since the charter has been approved, officials say.

One bomb exploded outside a building, housing the provincial security ministry in charge of the Kurdish militia groups, the peshmerga. Nine people were killed and four injured by the explosion.

Two others were wounded in an earlier attack on the convoy of a senior Kurdish politician. Militants have increased their attacks in Iraq since the referendum on the draft constitution on Oct. 15. Iraqi electoral officials announced on Tuesday that the charter had been approved, according to bbc.com.

Wal-Mart getting bigger

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. plans to open 270 to 280 super centers in the next year and add more than 60 million square feet to its total retail space, an increase of more than 8 percent.

The world’s biggest retailer, which faces increasing opposition to its rapid expansion, particularly in urban areas, said it would open between 20 and 30 discount stores, which are smaller than the super centers.

Wal-Mart plans to open 30 to 40 Sam’s Club warehouse stores, which start in February, and 15 to 20 of its smaller Neighborhood Market grocery stores. Its international unit plans 220 to 230 new stores. The retailer said that of the 550 to 600 total stores to be opened next year, about 215 will be relocated or expanded, including some 160 super centers that will be converted from smaller discount stores, according to cnn.com.

Girl, 8, kills bear

There’s a new hunting legend in the mountains of Western Maryland. Born to the woods, she’s 8 years old, with a steady trigger finger that put two bullets into a black bear’s chest cavity Monday, according to her and her father and grand-uncle, who were hunting with her.

State officials backed the claim by Sierra Stiles and credited her with the first kill of Maryland’s second bear season since hunting the animals resumed after a half-century ban. Maryland Department of Natural Resources officials shook their heads in amazement at the news that the first hunter to bag a bear was a third-grade girl from Kitzmiller, on Maryland’s border with West Virginia, according to msnbc.com.