Word: undecideded
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The war he had helped launch and justify raged on, the enemy's army had swept through his state capital only hours before and his successor as Virginia's Governor still hadn't been selected by the legislature, but Thomas Jefferson was going home, convinced that his work for America...
He said the recent rise in students who lack concrete plans is due in large part to the decline in recruiting that accompanied the economic downturn. Less aggressive recruiting means fewer opportunities for undecided students to take jobs simply for the sake of being employed.
Wright-Swadel also attributes the rise in undecided seniors to an increasing tendency among graduate schools to encourage students to take several years off between their undergraduate and professional educations.
“Students tend to respond to systems,” Wright-Swadel said. “If the graduate schools and the professional schools are saying, ‘Go away for two or three years, confirm what you want to do,’?...
Some other potential explanations for the increasing number of undecided students include a rise in the number of students writing theses—which means a rise in the number of students whose winters cannot be wholly devoted to looking for post-graduate opportunities—and the current emphasis...