A prompted journal for the semester-long work of figuring out what to do with your life. In the Margins is a collaboration between No Particular Order and Home From College, built around 64 pages of prompts that guide you through career exploration, relationship-building, and self-reflection over the course of a semester. By the time it's filled out, you have a clearer sense of the role you're moving toward — and the confidence to step into it.
Three sections: leveraging relationships, staying motivated, and career readiness. Forty-one prompted pages do the structured thinking; twelve blank pages hold what the prompts don't ask about — sketches, taped-in business cards, notes from a professor who said something that stuck.
The front cover folds out to reveal twelve professional conversation starters — small icebreakers for networking events, informational interviews, and the moments when "so what do you do?" needs a better answer. The back cover has a folder for memos and receipts. The spine is open-stitched, sewn, and glued for durability.
Soft cover, B6 (5 x 7 inches). Available in-store at Barnes & Noble College bookstores across the country, and here.
WHY IT'S SPECIAL
- Built for the semester-long work of career exploration: three sections — leveraging relationships, staying motivated, and career readiness — that walk the user through a full arc rather than a single moment of panic.
- 41 prompted pages + 12 blank pages: structure where structure helps, space where it doesn't.
- Fold-out front cover with 12 professional conversation starters: small icebreakers for networking events, informational interviews, and the moments when you have thirty seconds to make an impression.
- Back cover folder: for the business cards, the receipts, the handwritten note from the professor.
- Sewn, glued, and open-spined: designed to lie flat on a desk and survive a full semester of being carried in a backpack.
- Collaboration between No Particular Order and Home From College: a career-development partnership that combines NPO's prompt design with Home From College's career-prep expertise.
- A thoughtful gift: for a student, a recent graduate, someone starting a new job, or anyone making a career pivot.
DETAILS
- Soft cover, B6 (5 x 7 inches / 12.7 x 17.8 cm)
- 41 prompted pages + 12 blank pages
- Three sections: leveraging relationships, staying motivated, career readiness
- Front cover fold-out with 12 professional conversation starters
- Back cover folder for memos and receipts
- Dotted pages, open-spine binding, sewn and glued
- Designed for the course of a semester
- Made by No Particular Order x Home From College
THE BRAND
No Particular Order is a small studio making journals, cards, and printed objects built around a single conviction: the most useful prompts are the ones you can answer when you want to, not when a calendar tells you to. The brand started with Volume 1, a 200-prompt journal that became a quiet sensation, and has expanded into travel journals, moving journals, career-planning journals, and calling cards — all sharing the same premise: bringing intention and presence back to interactions that have mostly moved to screens.
