Tim Tebow Begins His Final Year As A Gator

Florida Atlantic Florida FootballIt is July on the Florida campus, which means by the time you walk from your car to the football building you need a towel and a sweet tea. The word “languid” comes to mind. Coach Urban Meyer’s office is dark, its occupant stealing the last moments of summer on a coach’s calendar.

And then Tim Tebow bounds up the stairs after a noontime workout. It is July on the Florida campus, but the word “languid” never applies to Tebow. He is wearing a black Gators T-shirt, shorts, blue and orange Crocs and a summer beard.

Not that the 6-foot-3, 240-pound Tebow ever resembled a fuzzy-cheeked boy, but the beard is a subtle visual cue that one of the (already) memorable careers in the history of the game has begun its final year.

Read all about July in Gatorville!

The Benefits of Working In A College Town

picture-2West Virginia University is among numerous colleges across the country who can’t find enough people to fill all the open positions on campus.

Morgantown, W.Va., home to WVU has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the U.S. — just 3.9% — and the university itself has about 260 job openings, from nurses to professors to programmers. In fact, of the six metropolitan areas with unemployment below 4% as of January, three of them are considered college towns. One is Morgantown. The pattern holds true for many other big college towns, such as Gainesville, Fla., Ann Arbor, Mich., Manhattan, Kan., and Boulder, Colo. In stark contrast, the unadjusted national unemployment rate is 8.5%.

If graduation is looming and you’re worried about finding a job check out this article and consider moving to a college town. There is plenty to do, there will be plenty of people your age and it has a strong sense of community.

The University of Florida Gator Girls

We don’t know what it is about the University of Florida that we like so much. Maybe it’s their great football team, athletics clubs, or their fighting Gator team spirit. Maybe it’s all the sunny personalities. But something tells us it really just has to do with their super-hot female student body. With this much eye candy at one school, getting any work done on campus must be about as difficult as it’s going to be for you right now…

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