Courses They Should Actually Be Teaching In College
By Audj Sunu
Health & Lifestyle
- Responsible Partying: You’re Not a Sorority Girl Anymore
- Feigning Disinterest in Costume Parties
- Overcoming Your Red Solo® Cup Dependency Once and For All
- Surviving Your Twenties Without Doing Irreparable Damage to Your Body or Your Dignity (Whatever Comes First)
- How to Dance at Weddings
- Intro to Gerontology: When Memorization of Popular Song Lyrics, Boy Band Star Names and Other Such Inanities Stops Coming Naturally
Relationships
- How Not to Be The Low-Hanging Fruit OR How Not to Be The Destination at the End of the Path to Least Resistance (Depending on Your Metaphorical Wording Preferences)
- Making New Friends, Non-Creeper Style
- Identifying the Greenness of the Grass on Your Side
- Game Theory: #Winning Despite Your Hatred of Having to Play In The First Place
- How It’s Done: Gray Area Casual Dating
- Intro to Urban Planning: Erecting Airtight Friend Zones and Circles of Trust
Career
- Reading Between the (Email) Lines
- Advancement 101: Delegating Work to Underlings Despite Still Feeling Like One Yourself
- Effective Pain Management Techniques: Networking & Mixers
- Outwitting Passive-Aggressive Coworkers With — You Guessed It — Even More Passive-Aggression
- The Art of Powering Through 1,497 Unread Emails After Getting Back From That Vacation You Took Precisely to Avoid the Cesspool That Is Your Inbox
- $3 Sake Bombs and Other Happy Hour Fundamentals
Culture
- Cultivating a Political Backbone Without Irritating Your Loved Ones on Facebook
- 50 Non-Reddit-Sourced Ways to Exude Coolness Given Your Dwindling Pop Culture Prowess
- Coping Skills: When Reality TV Is The Closest To Reality You Get
- Emerging Household Trends: Repopulating the Empty Nest
- Intro to Civic Participation: Perennial Under-informed Voting (If You Even Make It to the Polls) and Jury Duty Avoidance Tactics
Technology & Social Media
- Zen Basics: Teaching Your Parents How to Use Technology Without Imploding
- Proper, Adult-like News Consumption When All You Want to Do is Read BarStoolSports, ThoughtCatalog, or PerezHilton
- The Art Of Wasting Precious Time On The Interwebz
- Self-Rescue Techniques: When You Find Yourself in the “Weird” Parts Of YouTube
- Post-Limewire Age Music Acquisition for Dummies
- Explaining AOL, MySpace, GeoCities, Friendster, and Xanga to Today’s Youth
Everything Else
- Acclimation 101: When Nothing Surprises You Anymore
- Suppressing Shame and Schadenfreude So No One Notices It (Or So You Think)
- Data Skills: Managing the Unnecessary Overabundance of Choice in Practically Every Aspect of Modern Life
- Personal Finance Fluency By Way Of Cheesy Self-Help Blogs & Books
- Advanced List-making: When You’ve Lost the Ability to Form Cohesive Paragraphs of Interconnected Thoughts