This book will teach you everything you didn't learn in college!--Makaela Steinberg, alumni-relations director HEY GRADUATE, ready to take on the Real World? You will be after absorbing the wisdom and wit of this comprehensive field guide to life after college. Learn everything you need to transition smoothly from carefree co-ed to a grad with a plan. * Land a job-- a GOOD job-- and an enviable apartment.* LIVE LARGE no matter how small your salary.* Make friends and INFLUENCE BOSSES.* RETIRE EARLY. All your most pressing questions answered-- New car or used? Debit or credit? Paper or plastic?-- especially those you've so skillfully managed to avoid until now. Don't read A Car, Some Cash, and a Place to Crash for shopworn advice on how to "succeed" according to some formula. Instead, gain valuable perspective on doing it your way from professionals who remember their own first years out. Each chapter also links you to the most helpful sites on the Web so you can personalize your search for the very latest data on, say, the career of your choice or the city of your dreams. Best of all, your comrade and coach through all this excitement is, herself, a recent college grad who knows exactly where you're coming from and where you want to be.Rebecca Knight graduated in 1998 from Wesleyan University with high honors and a degree in American government. Since then she's worked at the Washington bureau of the New York Times and the New York office of the Financial Times of London. Her columns and articles have appeared in various newspapers, and she has appeared on CNN and ABC World News Now. For fun, she reads, skis, hikes, and travels.