Lionel Barzon III's Professional Blog

This post was originally featured on Lionel Barzon III 's blog. It’s an unfortunate fact of life that change can, and often does, affect our life quite a bit. Unexpected large-scale change can derail your entire way of living, of course. But even change that we all see coming, change that we can anticipate, plan for and even look forward to, can have a profound impact on our lives, making us realize we may not have been as prepared as we thought we were. I’ve already written about  things you may be doing wrong in college  simply due to the fact that, when you get to college you’ve (probably) never been there before. So what about after college? What about the time when graduation is in the recent past, the celebrations have died down and you’re left unemployed, burdened with student debt and wholly unprepared for life as an adult? Well, I’ve got a few tips to help you out there as well. Let me stop you before you get too far ahead of yourself–I already know what you’...

College is a time that, for a majority of those who attend, is the first chance at nearly total freedom. College students are given the opportunity to do as they please–to take the classes they want, choose their own path and carve it through only their own will. And sometimes, this huge dose of freedom is a little too much for some of us–we make mistakes and forget why we're really in college: to broaden our educational horizons and take in everything that we can from the experience. Being that this is more than likely the first time you’re out making decisions on your own on a consistent basis, you’re bound to encounter twists and turns that leave you pulling out your cellphone to dial mom or dad. However not all problems you find yourself falling into will be able to be solved by asking your parents–in fact, most of these decisions could, and should fall squarely on your shoulders. Here are a few things that, if you’re in college, you might be doing wrong right now. 1...

College is a time that, for a majority of those who attend, is the first chance at nearly total freedom. College students are given the opportunity to do as they please–to take the classes they want, choose their own path and carve it through only their own will. And sometimes, this huge dose of freedom is a little too much for some of us–we make mistakes and forget why we're really in college: to broaden our educational horizons and take in everything that we can from the experience. Being that this is more than likely the first time you’re out making decisions on your own on a consistent basis, you’re bound to encounter twists and turns that leave you pulling out your cellphone to dial mom or dad. However not all problems you find yourself falling into will be able to be solved by asking your parents–in fact, most of these decisions could, and should fall squarely on your shoulders. Here are a few things that, if you’re in college, you might be doing wrong right now. 1...

College is a time that, for a majority of those who attend, is the first chance at nearly total freedom. College students are given the opportunity to do as they please–to take the classes they want, choose their own path and carve it through only their own will. And sometimes, this huge dose of freedom is a little too much for some of us–we make mistakes and forget why we're really in college: to broaden our educational horizons and take in everything that we can from the experience. Being that this is more than likely the first time you’re out making decisions on your own on a consistent basis, you’re bound to encounter twists and turns that leave you pulling out your cellphone to dial mom or dad. However not all problems you find yourself falling into will be able to be solved by asking your parents–in fact, most of these decisions could, and should fall squarely on your shoulders. Here are a few things that, if you’re in college, you might be doing wrong right now. 1...

Currently sitting in last place in the American League East, I wouldn't be too keen on suggesting you take any baseball lessons from the Yankees right now. The way they've played lately, you'd be better off straying away from emulating anything they're doing on the diamond. However, away from the ballpark, the Yankees are worth examining on a broader scale. A team with such as vast history of winning (27 titles, to be exact) must be doing something correct, right? 1. Prioritize Professionalism The players on the Yankees, all 25 of them--(or 40, if you're going by active 40 man roster) are, at the most basic level, professionals. They're professional baseball players both on and off the field--that's their job, after all, to play baseball. Thats why so many people disagree with the well-publicized "no beards and long hair" grooming rule for all Yankees. While you may or may not agree with the rule, the fact remains that it is, at its core, ab...

They say that television melts your brain. It makes you dumb, kills brain cells or contributes to the downfall of society as a whole. I'm here to dispute that. Although I don't watch a lot of television myself (hardly any, actually), television certainly can be educational. While shows on the History Channel or TLC can help the watcher grow and learn in the conventional sense, some atypical TV shows can go a bit further, telling us more about life. Here are three quotes from unlikely sources that can be applied to everyday life. "Every man for himself is not going to work...if we can't live together we're gonna die alone." The quote that main character Jack Sheppard from the ABC drama LOST utters in a particularly dramatic season one scene outlines a basic premise that we should all consider. Though his situation (stranded on an uncharted, unknown, supernatural island on a fictional TV show) is different than most of ours, the idea behind living toget...