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7 things everyone should know before starting business school

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Thousands of students will begin their first day of business school over the next month, starting the rigorous path to an MBA.

While every business school has its own unique curriculum, there are shared experiences that all students go through.

We asked Alex Dea, who graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School in 2015, about the advice he wishes he had been given before starting b-school. Dea runs the site MBASchooled, a resource for business school students, applicants, and alumni.

We've collected insights for incoming students from Dea and the recent graduates of and students at top business schools he interviewed for his site. Here's what we found out.

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Researching your school's curriculum and professors will give you an advantage.

Picking your classes won't be as easy as it was in your undergraduate years, says Nick Johnson, New York University Stern School of Business Class of 2015.

Every school has different core requirements, ranging from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business' single class to Harvard Business School's extensive core requirements for your first three terms. There are also some advanced classes with prerequisites you may want to take care of your first year.

"There is no need to build out your whole two years this summer, but you should consider classes or professors that your school is known for and make sure you aren't missing out on anything in early days that would hurt your chances of taking their classes," Johnson says.



Job recruitment begins shortly after you step onto campus and will consume a significant portion of your time.

In addition to a strenuous workload, you're likely going to spend hours with recruiters in hopes of landing a solid job after graduation. Prepare yourself before school starts so the experience is not overwhelming, says Sarah Rumbaugh, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Class of 2015.

"Think about which industries and what companies you want to recruit with," Rumbaugh says. "Know that recruiting with every industry is really hard work and could result in spreading yourself too thin and not forging meaningful connections with the opportunities best for you."

Reflect on possible career paths, and don't be afraid of embarking on a new one. Keep a running list of jobs you're interested in, Rumbaugh says, "and also think about questions you have, things you'd like to learn, or information you need to better understand that particular opportunity."

And finally, don't feel pressured to take an opportunity for fear of losing a preferable one in the future.



Your personal life and academic life will be more interconnected than you may think.

Your class will be divided into cohorts of about 35 to 70 people who you will take your core classes with, and you'll be assigned a study group of about six people. You'll be spending a lot of time with these people, and it's to your benefit to become as comfortable as possible with them, says Matt Cairns, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business Class of 2016.

"You will spend countless hours in a tiny (often windowless) team room with these people," Cairns says. "Make sure you make time to get to know them outside of school — get dinner, drinks, or coffee. Learn about their lives and meet their significant others. You don't all have to be best friends, but it's important to know more about them than how well they know accounting."

Izzy Park, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Class of 2015, adds that it's worth taking advantage of extracurricular activities like club sports or student government, since getting to know classmates on a personal level is not only fun but rewarding to your career.

"I don't mean that in a transactional way," she says. "Your classmates have also thought deeply about how to approach problems in a new way and getting to see them in action is another way to learn more about what makes you you."



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The massively popular #FollowMeTo couple just got back from their honeymoon

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In 2012, the world fell in love with an Instagram account that showed a woman leading her photographer boyfriend around the world.

Now, the couple is celebrating yet another milestone and sharing the gorgeous new photos with their followers.

It all began when Moscow-based Murad Osmann and his girlfriend, Natalia Zakharova, started filling their Instagram accounts with beautiful travel photos of the streets of Barcelona, the Taj Mahal, and luxury hotels around the world.

Their perfectly framed pictures of Zakharova grabbing Osmann's hand and pulling him went viral. It even got the pair a book deal as well as a few parody accounts.

When they got married in June of this year, the pictures they posted on Instagram of the wedding were gorgeous. Nataly even posed in her signature style with her new husband in Moscow.

But the adventure was far from over. Nataly and Murad shared more amazing pictures from their long honeymoon, spotted by Cosmopolitan.

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Their first destination was to Las Vegas and the Bellagio hotel. They perfectly framed Nataly at sunset with the fountains going off.

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They took in Vegas from every angle and made sure to get the fountains from the sky.

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This billion-dollar 'ghost' airport is a creepy symbol of Spain's economic crisis

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Ciudad Real Airport spain bought by china

Don Quixote was a foreboding name for this doomed airport in the Spanish province of Castille-La Mancha.

The €10-billion ($108-billion) complex was completed in 2010, but was abandoned just two years later.

A group of Chinese-led investors has purchased the airport for just €10,000 — pocket change compared to the construction costs. They plan to turn the vacant terminal into a global freight hub. 

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146 miles south of the Spanish capital city of Madrid, lies the sleepy town of Ciudad Real.



The Spanish Government spent over a billion euros building a brand new airport near the city of 75,000 residents.



Flights first departed from La Mancha Airport in June 2010, but things quickly turned sour in southern Spain.



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6 incredible sports treasures up for auction — including Caitlyn Jenner's 1984 Olympic torch

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An Olympic torch will once again be prominently passed when the one carried by Caitlyn Jenner during the 1984 Olympic torch relay is handed off at Heritage Auctions’ Summer Platinum Night event on July 30 — a highlight of the National Sports Collectors Convention in Chicago.

Jenner and the torch crossed from the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe into California as part of an 82-day relay that covered over 9,300 miles and 33 states. At the time, the 34-year-old athlete and winner of the 1976 Olympic decathlon had recently fallen off a motorcycle and sustained a broken leg, but she managed to have the cast off in time to participate in the relay. 

The torch is expected to sell for more than $20,000. But it will not be the only item up for auction that will fire up collectors. 

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Here's a close-up of the 1984 Olympic torch relay that will be available at Heritage Auctions’ Summer Platinum Night event on July 30.



Also part of the auction, a baseball card of the 1859 Brooklyn Atlantics (the only team card from before the Civil War known to exist), will likely to go for more than $50,000.



Here's a shot of the back of the card.



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This park morphs into a spectacular underwater playground at the same time every year

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And divers take advantage of its underwater beauties.

What looks like a lake and feels like a lake isn't necessarily always a lake. Well, at least it's not always that deep.

Welcome to Green Lake, Austria — a hiker-and-scuba-diver's dream.

This body of water literally shape-shifts throughout the seasons. During the winter, it's more like a shallow pond. But come spring, it gets deep enough to dive and swim in.

Eventually, what was once along the pond's edge becomes submerged underwater, transforming the lake into an incredible underwater oasis.

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Green Lake is surrounded by an Austrian village called Tragöß. It is a county park where hikers tromp through the lush Hochschwab mountains and forests year round.



When the snow in the nearby karst mountains begins to melt from rising temperatures in the spring, it trickles into the lake basin and fills it with water.



From July through about mid-May, the lake looks like this.



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The 21 biggest family-owned businesses in the world (SNY, RHHBY, WMT, FB, ORCL, CCL, PSX, MCK, BUD, SSNLF, KMI)

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These are not your average mom and pop stores.

In a report on family businesses this month, Credit Suisse introduced the CS Global Family 900 universe— a database of the 920 largest family-owned companies in the world. Companies on the list are publicly-traded with market capitalization's of at least $1 billion, as well as family-owned stakes of at least 20 percent.

The 920 companies are found in 35 countries, with more than 64 percent coming from Emerging Asia.

"In more developed markets, we see more fragmented ownership and many families selling out over time as a general theme," Credit Suisse analysts noted. "Frequently quoted statistics from the Family Business Institute show that only one third of family-owned businesses last into a second generation of ownership, 12% to a third and just 3% to a fourth."

But some of these companies have been controlled by families for generations, and no family business comes without family troubles. Many of these companies have experienced very public feuds between relatives. And with transgressions ranging from bribery to doing business with Hitler, some have done things that they probably wouldn't do again.

Here's the list of the top 21 family-owned businesses from the CS Global Family 900 universe. Spoiler Alert: Walmart is only number three.

21. Sun Pharmaceutical

Industry: Health Care

Country: India

Market Cap: $36 billion

Family: Shanghvi

Comment: According to Forbes, Dilip Shanghvi founded Sun Pharmaceutical in 1983 after borrowing the equivalent of $160 from his father. Today it is the biggest drug company in India, making Shanghvi — still the firm's largest shareholder — India's second richest man.



20. CK Hutchison Holdings

Industry: Financials

Country: Hong Kong

Market Cap: $36 billion

Family: Li

Comment: After a massive reorganization last month, Cheung Kong Holdings is now CK Hutchison Holdings, with Li Ka-shing, Asia's richest man, and his family at the helm. Li founded the company in the 1950s and today runs it with his son Victor. His other son Richard is also a billionaire.



19. Carnival Corporation

Industry: Consumer Discretionary

Country: United States

Market Cap: $37 billion

Family: Arison

Comment: Siblings Micky and Shari Arison both hold large stakes in Carnival, the cruise ship operator founded by their late father, Ted. Micky is Chairman and a former CEO of Carnival, and also owns the Miami Heat. Shari has her own investment firm in Israel and is one of the richest people in the Middle East.



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Amy Schumer's unique road to becoming an A-list comedy star

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Amy Schumer is officially a bona fide Hollywood star.

The 34-year-old comedian's debut film, "Trainwreck,"opened to impressive box-office numbers this weekend, and she recently earned her first Emmy nomination as an actress for her hit Comedy Central show "Inside Amy Schumer."

But Schumer's rise to fame wasn't easy. Here's how the stand-up comic from New York became a Hollywood star.

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Amy Schumer was born in the Upper East Side of Manhattan in 1981. Her father was the owner of a successful baby-furniture company, and the family was "really wealthy" in her early years.

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When Schumer was 9, her family went bankrupt and her father was found to have multiple sclerosis. Her father's permanent hospitalization would become a main inspiration for her movie "Trainwreck."

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Three years later, her parents divorced and she moved to Long Island with her mother, whose "lack of boundaries" helped inform her provocative sense of humor.

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"I have a joke where I say, 'Oh, I'm going to bring [my mom] to a soccer game because I want to show her what boundaries look like,'" Schumer said in an interview with NPR



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We break down the latest 'Fallout 4' trailer in excruciating detail so you don't have to

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Over the weekend, the publisher behind "Fallout 4" released the five-minute gameplay trailer shown off during June's game industry trade show, E3.

The People of The Internet were very excited by this, so much so that the trailer was the top trending item on Facebook for several days. It was a whole thing.

But you? You were at the beach, enjoying the summer, not thinking about the potential post-apocalypse detailed in the world of "Fallout." That's fine – spoiler: We were too – and we've intentionally broken down the trailer here so you too can understand why millions of people are incredibly excited for the November 10 launch of "Fallout 4" on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC.

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The game's main character is created based on what you make him or her. The trailer starts with the default male character leaving his fallout shelter, dubbed "Vault 111." The vaults were created by a company named "Vault-Tec," which plays an important role in the history of the "Fallout" world. Many vaults were created as social experiments rather than survival shelters.



Here's the default main character, surrounded by "The Wasteland"– the "Fallout" world's name for the ruins of society following the nuclear war of 2077 ("The Great War"). The war started, and ended, on a single day: October 23, 2077. Not so much a "war" as a nuclear apocalypse. The blue and yellow jumpsuit seen in the image is worn by all Vault-Tec vault dwellers, and is a staple of the series. The back says "111" for the vault number he resided in.



This is the first glimpse we get of the suburb where "you" (the game's main character) lived before The Great War. All the trees are stripped of life, the houses decomposing. It's not clear if it's the fall/winter, or simply nuclear winter, that's keeping the trees from growing foliage. The world looks so washed out because this is the first time the game's main character has seen sunlight since he entered Vault 111.



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This college has a creative plan to make tuition cheaper, and it could be a model for other struggling schools

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A small Christian college in Indiana has a new tuition model that it says can save students nearly $45,000.

Grace College and Seminary first started making changes to its school in 2009 after seeing falling enrollment numbers, according to Chronicle of Higher Education reporter Beckie Supiano.

The main change was a three-year bachelor's degree program. While the accelerated degree attracted more students, Grace still faced challenges and in 2013 began to consider more changes to keep the school afloat.

For the coming academic year, Supiano reports, Grace is debuting a new plan that includes"a modest tuition cut, free textbook rentals, and a price that drops for returning students each year as they progress through college." Tuition for the year is $22,450.

Explaining Grace's unusual new pricing model, the college's president told The Chronicle that the school thought, "If we're doing something, let's do it different."

So far, it seems to be working. While the full program officially goes into effect this fall, The Chronicle reports that Grace's enrollment stayed up after implementing the accelerated-degree program and that students seem excited by the new changes.

Here's how Grace College's new plan works, according to a video from the school:

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A 9% tuition price cut will save more than $2,000 a year, the college estimates.



Grace also offers students free textbook rentals — the part of the plan that current students liked the most, the college's president told The Chronicle.



Grace deducts $500 from tuition each year, setting itself apart from schools that raise tuition each year.



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Stunning photos of New Zealand's glowing underground cave world will take your breath away

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Deep in the limestone caves of New Zealand rest colonies of glow worms that emit a blue-green light strong enough to illuminate the caves they live in.

These wonderful yet strange creatures are called arachnocampa luminosa. They're native to a northern part of the country called North Island.

Auckland photographer Joseph Michael documented the awe-striking creatures, which live in caves said to be as ancient as 30 million years old, by spending countless hours in the caves' ice-cold water.

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Glowworms are actually the larvae of the fungus gnat, a type of fly that resembles a mosquito.



The glowworms are found only in New Zealand and eastern Australia. The Australian worms have smaller lights and tend to stay in smaller groups.



The first part of the species' name, Arachnocampa, means "spider worm," and refers to the web of silk threads the worms use to snatch their prey.



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21 mouth-watering food items you can get delivered to your couch

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Caviar wants to upgrade your takeout experience.

The food delivery startup was acquired by Square in a deal rumored to be worth at much as $90 million in August 2014.

Part of Caviar's appeal is that it allows customers to order from popular restaurants that don't usually deliver, like Alta CA in San Francisco and Momofuku in New York.

And many of the meals Caviar delivers are pretty elaborate — like a s'mores pie you can order from Fireman Derek's Pies in Miami, or a plate of kimcheese fries you can get from Korilla BBQ in New York. 

Our friends at Caviar helped us round up some of the craziest meals you can order through their service.

Dishes range from $3 to about $25, and delivery fees start at $1.99. Caviar is now available in 16 cities across the U.S.

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The Ringmaster: Straw’s Famous Donut Burger

What it is: Ground beef burger, topped with melted cheddar and jack and served between a house-made glazed donut bun. 

Restaurant: Straw, San Francisco

Price: $15



Frito Pie Melt

What it is: Chili, American cheese, jalapeños, onions, and Fritos between slices of sourdough bread.

Restaurant: Ms. Cheezious, Miami

Price: $7



The T-Frank

What it is: A hot dog topped with bacon, cream cheese, avocado, and hot sauce.

Restaurant: Chicago's Dog House, Chicago

Price: $4.20

 



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The 10 wealthiest couples in the world

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mark zuckerberg priscilla chanTwo are certainly better than one when it comes to wealth and power.

Our friends at Wealth-X, a firm that does research and valuations on ultra-high net worth individuals, provided us with a list of the 10 wealthiest couples in the world, both self-made billionaires and those who gained their wealth through inheritance.

These men and women are innovators, developers, fashion moguls, CEOs, and philanthropists. 

From the US to France to Spain to China, scroll through to meet the world's wealthiest couples.

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10. James and Lynne Walton

Combined net worth: $36.2 billion

James "Jim" Carr Walton, the youngest son of Wal-Mart founder Samuel Walton, joined the company's board when his brother John died in 2005. He now serves as director of Walton Enterprises, the holding company of the Walton family assets; founder of Community Publishers; and chairman and CEO of Arvest Bank. The Walton Family Foundation, for which Jim Walton serves as secretary and treasurer, donated more than $300 million to charity in 2013.

Wal-Mart stores operate in 14 countries and employ a staggering 2.2 million people. Still, the Waltons and their four grown children grant very few press interviews. They reside in Bentonville, Arkansas, where Lynne ran a bookstore in the town square until 2003The couple has also donated more than $60,000 to the Republican National Senatorial and Congressional Committees. 

Source:Wealth-X



9. Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan

Combined net worth: $38.5 billion

The founder and CEO of the world's largest social network was just a sophomore at Harvard a mere 10 years ago. A chance meeting at a frat party sparked Zuckerberg's relationship with fellow Harvard classmate Priscilla Chan, and nine years later they tied the knot. 

Chan, a pediatrician and trilingual former teacher, and Zuckerberg recently made a $75 million donation to help complete construction at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. The Facebook magnate, for his part, has been earning a $1 salary at the company since April 2013. 

Source: Wealth-X



8. Bernard Arnault and Helene Mercier-Arnault

Combined net worth: $38.7 billion

Arnault is the CEO of Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH), a fashion and luxury products group. His success was founded upon an inheritance from his father's civil engineering company, Ferinel. He eventually became chairman of Ferinel and acquired a handful of companies including Christian Dior and Le Bon Marché. When Louis Vuitton and Moët Hennessy merged, Arnault became the CEO, and LVMH now markets luxury products across 60 brands including Dom Perignon, Givenchy, and Marc Jacobs.

Arnault and his wife — a French-Canadian concert pianist — are passionate art collectors and have situated LVMH as a major patron of art in France. LVMH reportedly also owns a stake in famous Bordeaux wine estate Chateau Cheval Blanc, and owns another vineyard in Burgundy, France.

Source: Wealth-X



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Seven amazing creations that players made with famous games

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I play video games for fun. Who doesn't?

But there's only so many times you can play through a level on a three-year-old game before it becomes rote button-tapping: the interactive equivalent of bingeing "House" on Netflix. You know exactly how it's going to go.

Enter the world of "mods."

These are free patches fans create to expand the worlds of their favorite video games – sometimes for the better, and sometimes just for the weirder. Mods can soup-up graphics, add in-game content, or change the ways games behave. Some mods function as entirely new games, with the game they modify running invisibly underneath. Others just exist to make you laugh. The only requirement for playing them is owning the original game they're based in.

Collected here are mods that, one way or another, promise to transform your gaming experience. A few are even so good they make buying their underlying games worth it. That is, if you don't have them already. 

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Macho Man Randy Savage dragon in 'Skyrim'

OHHHHHH YEAHHHHH! This may be my favorite mod out of the video-games-should-be-much-weirder school of design.

Macho Man Randy Savage was a pro wrestler for three decades, known for his over-the-top persona and mannerisms that stood out even from the WWF's manic pack of characters. ("Snap into it!") "Skyrim" is a fantasy role-playing video game about swordplay, magic, knights, and dragons. Someone stuck those dragons and Mr. Savage in a blender and this weirdness emerged:

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The uncanny look of the Macho Man dragons isn't even the best part of the mod. The best part is the quotes the dragons shout as they wreak havoc. Here's a video on one in action:

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See this friendly-looking fellow? His name is John. Would you like him running around your pixelated "Minecraft" world? Neither would I.

In case you haven't run across it, "Minecraft" is the wildly popular video game that resembles  virtual LEGO. Players, just like LEGO builders, spill the contents of their imaginations across blocky landscapes of enormous possibility. And some players' imaginariums are apparently incomplete without horrifying, blood-soaked monsters.

John is just my favorite "Minecraft" horror mod character to hate. There's a whole bestiary of his cousins in terror out there ready to download into and subvert your creations. If this is your thing, check out Slender Man and Herobrine as well.



Army attack at five stars for "Grand Theft Auto V"

"Grand Theft Auto V" is, for better or worse, all about the joy of utter mayhem. Most mods for the game are built for the purpose of pumping up that mayhem to ever more extreme levels. The "Tanks Spawn at Five Stars" mod rewards mayhem with even more mayhem.

In the "Grand Theft Auto V" universe, your wanted level – reflecting how much violence and machinery of war the police will use to stop your crime spree – raises as you commit crimes and maxes out at five stars. In older "GTA" games, like "Vice City" and "San Andreas," the star level went one step higher to six. At that point the army would step in to shut you down, often using – you guessed it – tanks.

(For the cool cats I ran with in middle school, reaching six stars without cheating or dying was the holy grail of late-night basement gaming.)

In "V", the mythical sixth star is sadly absent. But "Tanks Spawn at Five Stars" goes a long way toward fixing that grievous error:

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18 awesome career choices most college kids would never think of

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For many students, a college degree puts you on the direct path to a certain career, such as a doctor, teacher, or journalist. 

But for many others, the future isn't as clear cut.

Maybe you want to go to med school, but don't necessarily want to be a doctor. Maybe you love maps, but aren't sure how to incorporate that passion into a career. Or perhaps you just haven't found anything that sounds appealing yet. 

Luckily, there are tons of great career options out there that many college kids have no idea even exist. In this helpful thread, Reddit users shared some of these under-the-radar occupations that most students probably haven't heard of. And they pay fairly well, too.

Here are 18 of our favorites, including salary data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, for those who need some inspiration finding their dream job.

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Air traffic controller

Average annual salary: $118,780

"After school and training it pays an average of 100k a year, but there is an age limit to get accepted."—Kate1320

"My father is an ATC at Pearson. 200k a year with brilliant benefits. He provided a great quality of life for my family."—1stOnRT1



Court stenographer

Average annual salary: $55,000

"It's a three-year program (on average — took me four to finish), but if you're proficient in grammar, have strong language skills, have solid finger dexterity from playing an instrument or video games, and are able to work independently, it's an incredible career.

"You work from home most of the time, lawyers very rarely schedule depositions before 10:00 am, you can make your own schedule, and the pay is great. Your pay reflects how hard you want to work and the jobs you're getting, but I made 65k my first year and nearly 80k my second."—Bad_Karma21



Dental hygienist

Average annual salary: $71,970

"I'm starting dental hygiene school in the fall and I would have never looked into it while in college. It's only after I graduated and realized that I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do that I started seriously doing some research. Most dental hygiene programs only require a certain amount of prerequisite courses and a standardized test score for admission. Most are also bachelors degree programs as well, so mom and dad are pleased and you're spending the minimal amount of time you would earning a traditional university/college degree. Plus, salary starts at 50-60k a year with ridiculous benefits, at least in my area. Dentists treat their hygienists well!"—WinnifredBurkle

 



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Woody Allen says Amy Schumer is a funnier comedian than he is

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Woody Allen wasn’t aware that Trainwreck, the Judd Apatow-directed movie starring Amy Schumer, references his 1979 movie Manhattan in a romantic montage. Schumer and co-star Bill Hader re-create the iconic scene where Allen and Diane Keaton are sitting on a bench underneath the 59th Street Bridge, when she says, "I think this is where Woody met Soon-Yi."

"I didn't know. This is the first time I'm hearing it," Allen told Vulture when we caught up with him at a screening for Irrational Man, hosted by the Cinema Society and Fiji Water.

That said, Allen is familiar with Schumer and says he's a fan of her work.

"You know, being a comedian myself, I have a tremendous admiration and respect for all these people," he said. "I used to think that, Oh, I was so great, and there's so many comedians, and they're second-rate. And then I watched them on cable television, and I thought, My God, I'm nowhere near as good as any of these people! I have a tremendous respect for all of them; it's amazing how good they are and how much better than I was all of them are, including her."

SEE ALSO: Amy Schumer's unique road to becoming an A-list comedy star

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Check out the factory where Boeing is building the last of its legendary 747s (BA)

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The Boeing 747 jumbo is one of the most famous planes in aviation history. The plane, referred to by many as the "Queen of the Skies," helped revolutionize air travel for the masses when it arrived on the scene in 1969. It's been going strong for over 40 years.

Even though Boeing has sold more than 1,500 747s, the airline industry shifted toward smaller and more fuel-efficient twin-engine jets in recent years, such as the Boeing 777. As a result, the company has had a difficult time finding buyers for the iconic jumbo jet. 

But the resilient Boeing 747 is still alive and very much in production. Recently, Chris Sloan of Airways News had the opportunity to take a guided tour during Boeing's media days of the Everett, Washington, factory where the airplane maker assembles the jumbo.

Here's what he saw. 

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In the late 1960s, a group 50,000 Boeing employees came together to create the first 747 jumbo jet in an astonishing 16 months.



Although the 747 is less popular these days, it's still featured in the fleets of such airlines as British Airways and ...



... Delta.



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'Supernatural' star Misha Collins is inspiring people around the world with a wacky scavenger hunt

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"Supernatural" star Misha Collins has been inspiring people all over the world with GISHWHES, or the "Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen."

GISHWHES 2015 takes place August 1-8, and Tuesday is the last day to sign up.

Tens of thousands of people from more than 100 countries have participated in GISHWHES over the past few years.

Participants are tasked with earning points by performing challenges or "items" ranging from creative to off-the-wall item to random acts of kindness captured by video or photo. Participants can form their own teams or they will be organized in teams of 15.

Winners will be chosen from those who earned the most points, judged by completion of the item and how creatively or deeply one performed it.

Watch the video about GISHWHES below:

See Business Insider's exclusive peek at challenges described as "weird" from previous Gishwhes years:

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Dirty grandparents

"I'm certain the elderly love mud wrestling, but they must do it in private because I never see it! Let's fix this. Catch your grandparents or great grandparents in a mud-wrestling match." (2014)



Between chapters

"A storm trooper at a laundromat folding clothes." (2013)



Jersey Shore'd

"Dress your grandfather (or a man over 75) like a teenage girl from Jersey Shore." (2013)



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The 17 best men's fashion influencers to follow on Instagram for suit inspiration

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A man needs more than just tips and advice to reach his suit style goals. He also needs inspiration.

And one the best places to find suit inspiration is the visual paradise of Instagram, where world-class menswear bloggers love to strut their stuff.

Keep scrolling to see the 17 best Instagram accounts to inspire your suiting goals, however lofty they may be. 

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17. The Instagram for the themetro-man.com blog is just as good as the site itself. If you're looking for well-tailored sartorial inspiration, Moti Ankari has it in spades.

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16. One of the most famous male models in the world, David Gandy knows how to wear a suit. Whether on the street or the runway, he always looks impeccable.

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15. The Grey Fox's Instagram and blog (greyfoxblog.com) caters to an oft-ignored demo: men over 40. Founder David Evans usually prefers suiting that's conservative, British-made, and European cut.

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There's a secret feature in Android phones that will let you prank your friends

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If you can manage to get a hold of your unsuspecting friend's Android phone for a couple minutes, there's a quick prank that will make his or her phone so frustratingly slow that it's hard not to laugh.

It involves going into a hidden menu and some settings designed for developers, but it's completely harmless and reversible.

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Your victim's Android phone normally performs like this:

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But you can make it run crazy slow like this:

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Go to your phone's settings and find the "About phone" option. It's at the very bottom of the list on most Android phones.



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27 terrifying photos of 2 Instagram stars who risk their lives climbing landmark buildings around the world

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Two 20-somethings from Russia and Ukraine, who go by the pseudonyms Vitaliy Raskalov and Vadim Makhorov, have built a huge Instagram following, exceeding 100,000 now, by scaling some of the world's tallest buildings and snapping breathtaking photos from the top of them.

Some of the landmarks they climbed include the Shanghai Tower in China, the Eiffel Tower, and a pyramid in Cairo. They're now professional photographers and even had their own photo exhibition recently.

Check out 27 Instagram photos of these two Russian daredevils taken from thousands of feet above ground.

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Vitaliy Raskalov, 22, and Vadim Makhorov, 25, scale tall buildings and bridges around the world, snapping photos from the top of them.



They climb buildings without safety ropes or harnesses. What they do may not be legal in most parts of the world, so they use pseudonyms to avoid getting caught.



They first met in St. Petersburg, at the top of the Obukhovskiy bridge, which is roughly 390 feet tall. Vitaliy's from Ukraine and Vadim's from Russia.



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