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		<title>Oh the Places You Can Go During Winter Break</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  A few weeks ago, we posted a quote on our Facebook page that read:   “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”   The quote is by George R.R. Martin (writer of such weighty tomes as Game of Thrones).  It got me thinking…what books [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitedu.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10822555&#038;post=278&#038;subd=pitedu&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Inspires You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would inspire you to walk 60 miles?  Would you do it to save someone&#8217;s life?  To get the new iPhone 5?  To vote?  I pondered this question this past Sunday as I stood at the finish line of the 60-mile breast cancer walk watching the exhausted participants fall into the arms of their friends and family after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitedu.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10822555&#038;post=262&#038;subd=pitedu&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Came First?  The Job or the Experience???</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adina Tayar collaborated with Rachelle Chaykin on this post!  Almost every college student faces the same dilemma:  how do I get experience if everyone wants to hire someone who already has experience.  Essentially, it is the chicken and egg conundrum (or as I like to call it&#8211;brunch).  How do you get your foot in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitedu.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10822555&#038;post=260&#038;subd=pitedu&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PIT Transfer Fair:  How Do You Get Your Ticket Punched?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How often do you think about transferring?  We transfer from the train to the subway, we transfer money from savings to checking, and some of us transfer our affections as often as we change our under-roos!   In a few weeks, the Pennsylvania Institute of Technology will host a Transfer Fair on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitedu.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10822555&#038;post=253&#038;subd=pitedu&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PTA at PIT</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[           A few months ago, I found out that PIT will be offering a Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) Associate Degree.  This program will be a 5-semester, full-time program that will allow students to pursue one of the fasting growing jobs in the United States.  I wanted to write about it because I have been intimately [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitedu.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10822555&#038;post=249&#038;subd=pitedu&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to PIT!  Why Are You Here?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[     The first R-rated movie I was allowed to see was Animal House—the classic 1978 movie about a group of fraternity brothers who were on “DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION!”  The movie was rude, crude and hilariously funny, but it had a much deeper impact on me than a few laughs.  It is literally the reason I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitedu.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10822555&#038;post=245&#038;subd=pitedu&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s an App for That at P.I.T.</title>
		<link>http://pitedu.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/theres-an-app-for-that-at-p-i-t/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us have played Angry Birds (even if we don’t quite understand why we have to blow up cute little piggies and monkeys), but how many of you have played Bubble Ball? Like Angry Birds, Bubble Ball is a game that helps develop an understanding of physics and strategy.  Other than the visual differences [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitedu.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10822555&#038;post=235&#038;subd=pitedu&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Habitat for Humanity:  Gonna Make You Sweat!</title>
		<link>http://pitedu.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/habitat-for-humanity-gonna-make-you-sweat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rchaykin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  You get up super early on a Saturday morning, pack a bag lunch and head out into the crystal clear morning of a summer day.  You are not heading to the shore or Six Flags; instead, you are going to spend the day working hard, sweating, getting stinky and ultimately adding an important line [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitedu.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10822555&#038;post=208&#038;subd=pitedu&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome, Adina Tayar</title>
		<link>http://pitedu.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/welcome-adina-tayar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please welcome Adina Tayar as our new Director of Career Placement and College Transfer here at the Pennsylvania Institute of Technology! Ms. Tayar is a true career services professional and comes to us with six years of experience in career advising, internship coordination and job placement, as well as a proven track record in leadership [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitedu.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10822555&#038;post=202&#038;subd=pitedu&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome, Georgette Hall-Peterson!</title>
		<link>http://pitedu.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/welcome-georgette-hall-peterson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please welcome Georgette Hall-Peterson as our new Academic Support and Retention Counselor here at the Pennsylvania Institute of Technology (Center City Campus!) Ms. Hall-Peterson is a certified counselor and has extensive experience in motivating, assisting and instructing individuals who are seeking to improve their quality of life by furthering their education.  With her experience in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitedu.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10822555&#038;post=199&#038;subd=pitedu&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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