Story Bank
Capture experiences and reflections that make you, you.
BREAKING / EXTREMELY NICHE BUSINESS NEWS
Work In Progmesshas been acquired.
Good news: the new management also thinks most college and career advice is unnecessarily painful.
WIP → Blue
Work In Progmess is becoming part of Blue — The Business of You.
For years, WIP has been pointing out the strange, stressful and occasionally ridiculous parts of helping teenagers prepare for whatever comes after high school.
Blue is what happened when we decided pointing at the problem wasn’t enough.
We built a place where students can actually do something about it.
Blue helps students figure out who they are —
before someone asks them to explain it.
Students use Blue to collect the experiences and stories that show how they think, work, solve problems and grow. Then Blue helps them put that evidence to work when it matters: college essays, interviews, recommendations, scholarships, internships and eventually jobs.
Essay & Interview Prep
Turn your stories into clear, confident answers.
Recommendation Support
Make it easy for teachers and mentors to write stronger recs.
Scholarships, Internships & Jobs
Find opportunities and put your best foot forward.
No personality-test label they’ll forget by Thursday. No giant readiness checklist. Just a better way to help students understand themselves and tell their story.
So what happens to Work In Progmess?
The snark survives. So does the practical advice, the research, the occasional raised eyebrow at the entire college-and-career industrial complex and our ongoing belief that teenagers are significantly more interesting than their GPAs suggest.
It will simply have a new home.
Come with us to Blue.
Get our best thinking about helping students become ready for college, careers and life after high school — plus first access to what we’re building inside Blue.