Many of the Gossip Girl cast will begin the next chapter of their lives as freshmen at NYU next week, and I can't wait to see what happens when the drama goes to college. If they were really attending the university, it would cost $52,000 a year in tuition and room and board. Approximately how much was (or is) your college tuition?

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Working for the government used to elicit groans of expectant dullness, but times have changed. Instead of criticizing working for the ultimate Man, Uncle Sam, more people are drawn to the secure nature of working for the federal government. According to a new report from the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service, the federal government will have hired 273,000 new workers by Fall of 2012 for jobs the group calls "mission critical" — that's a 41 percent hiring increase over the three previous fiscal years.

Partnership gathered hiring projections from 35 of the largest federal agencies and used the information to determine the 10 categories that will have the highest job growth. You can search job listings on the government's official job website, and see the 10 areas expected to undergo the most growth in the next three years when you read more

Nervous first-date jitters are typically answered by your friends' confident reassurance that everything will be just fine if you simply be yourself. The same can be said for a job interview; projecting your true self, in the most presentable manner, will get you further in the hiring process than someone who doesn't put her personality out there.

Susan L. Hodas, director of talent management at NERA Economic Consulting admits she and her colleagues apply "the airport test" to candidates. They ask themselves: "Would I want to be stuck in the airport for 12 hours with this person if my flight was delayed?" Consider this when you enter your next interview and be the likable, friendly, interesting person that you are when you're around your friends.