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So my little sister has graduated from college. I would love to give her a bunch of wise older brother advice, but unfortunately she would know better than to take it from someone who spent a year and a half doing post grad work at the university of Starbucks.

What that means is that I will have to get her a real present. I can't skate by on advice.
Believe me, I tried. I spent a whole month trying to think of good advice for my little sister now that she's being pushed out the womb of college. Except for one sound, specific and now totally moot bit, I came up dry.

The trouble is that the sound decisions I have made make for astoundingly modest advice. These are gems like:

*Don't move to Turlock.
*Don't let wasted junkies sleep on your porch
*If it sounds like a pyramid scheme, it's probably a pyramid scheme.
* If you know how basic statistics work, it makes you smarter than 95% of the country and probably smarter than any given president elect.

What I've learned from the poor decisions sounds, in retrospect, quite obvious.

*Never be the most fiscally sound person on the lease. Especially if you aren't fiscally sound by any conventional definition.
*Never move in with a seventh day adventist, a communist, or a chihuahua. If you absolutely must pick one of the three, go with the communist.
*Try not to get a career by accident.

The nice thing is, advice is probably a gift she doesn't need. A remarkably self-sufficient girl, she can probably make the most of her lack of obligations. I look forward to hearing about how she does it.