Information Sessions
Exploring Educational Excellence: Brown University, University of Chicago, Cornell University, Columbia University and Rice University
Sunday September 25, 2016
2PM or 7PM
Boston Marriott Cambridge
50 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02142
Register at http://www.exploringeducationalexcellence.org
Adelphi University Panther Preview Sessions
Saturday October 1, Monday October 10, Friday November 11, Sunday December 11
9:30AM, 10:30AM, 11:30AM, 12:30PM
RSVP Today at adelphi.edu/info-sessions
Open Houses
Johnson State College
Fall Open Houses: Friday October 21, Saturday November 12
Instant Decision Day: Friday December 9
Performing Arts Festival: Friday October 28
Integrative Medicine Day: Saturday November 12
Penn State Schreyer Honors College
Fall Scholars Day Open House: THIS Friday, September 16
For any questions, email scholars@psu.edu
Boston University Fall Visit Days
Friday October 7 or Friday October 28
Boston University George Sherman Union
775 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA
Check-in begins at 8:30am
Program: 9:00am - 1:00pm
For more information, visit the BU admissions website
University of Scranton Open House
October 23 or November 6
scranton.edu/openhouse
Salve Regina University Open Houses
Sunday September 25
Sunday October 30
For registration and our full calendar of events go to www.salve.edu/visit or call 888-GO-SALVE
United States Coast Guard Academy
Bears Days: September 26, October 14, November 21
Briefing & Tours: Monday-Friday, 1 pm and October 15, 29, November 19, and December 17
Cadet for a Day: November 10, December 5 (8am-4pm)
Cadet for a Day Overnight: September 22-23, October 6-7, 27-28, November 17-18, December 1-2
Genesis: October 16-18 and November 13-15
Adelphi University Fall Open Houses
Sunday October 23
Saturday November 19
10:00am - 1:30pm
Wesleyan University Hamilton Prize for Creativity: Four year, full-tuition scholarship was established in honor of Hamilton writer, composer, and lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda (Class of 2002) and director Thomas Kail (Class of 1999). All incoming first-year students are eligible to apply for the prize, which will be awarded to the student whose work of creative written expression is judged to best reflect the originality, artistry, and dynamism embodied in Broadway's Hamilton. To qualify for the prize, the recipient must be accepted and enroll full-time at Wesleyan University. Interested students can apply online at wesleyan.edu/admission - students must submit an original work of creative written expression.
Monday, September 12, 2016
Sunday, September 11, 2016
College Visits September 12-16
College Visit Expectations
• The College MUST be on on your "Colleges I'm Thinking About" list in Naviance. We will check before giving you a pass.
• The college representative will most likely be the person reading your application to that college. Market yourself positively!
• See Mrs. Vernalia, Guidance Administrative Assistant, at least one block before the session for a pass in order for us to provide an appropriate space for the visit.
• Sign up for the college visit on Naviance under "About Colleges" then "Visit Schedule" and finally "Sign Me Up".
• If you have a major assignment, presentation or assessment in a class during a scheduled visit, you must complete your academic obligation before the visit. See your counselor with any conflicts.
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
To Get to Harvard, Go to Haiti?
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SundayReview | OP-ED COLUMNIST
To Get to Harvard, Go to Haiti? Frank Bruni AUG. 13, 2016 This summer, as last, Dylan Hernandez, 17, noticed a theme on the social media accounts of fellow students at his private Catholic high school in Flint, Mich. “An awfully large percentage of my friends — skewing towards the affluent — are taking ‘mission trips’ to Central America and Africa,” he wrote to me in a recent email. He knows this from pictures they post on Snapchat and Instagram, typically showing one of them “with some poor brown child aged 2 to 6 on their knee,” he explained. The captions tend to say something along the lines of, “This cutie made it so hard to leave.” But leave they do, after as little as a week of helping to repair some village’s crumbling school or library, to return to their comfortable homes and quite possibly write a college-application essay about how transformed they are. “It rubs me the wrong way,” Hernandez told me, explaining that while many of his friends are well intentioned, some seem not to notice poverty until an exotic trip comes with it. He himself has done extensive, sustained volunteer work at the Flint Y.M.C.A., where, he said, the children he tutors and plays with would love it “if these same peers came around and merely talked to them.” “No passport or customs line required,” he added. Hernandez reached out to me because he was familiar with writing I had done about the college admissions process. What he described is something that has long bothered me and other critics of that process: the persistent vogue among secondary-school students for so-called service that’s sometimes about little more than a faraway adventure and a few lines or paragraphs on their applications to selective colleges. |
It turns developing-world hardship into a prose-ready opportunity for growth, empathy into an extracurricular activity.
And it reflects a broader gaming of the admissions process that concerns me just as much, because of its potential to create strange habits and values in the students who go through it, telling them that success is a matter of superficial packaging and checking off the right boxes at the right time. That’s true only in some cases, and hardly the recipe for a life well lived.
In the case of drive-by charity work, the checked box can actually be counterproductive, because application readers see right through it.
“The running joke in admissions is the mission trip to Costa Rica to save the rain forest,” Ángel Pérez, who is in charge of admissions at Trinity College in Hartford, told me.
Jennifer Delahunty, a longtime admissions official at Kenyon College, said that mission-trip application essays are their own bloated genre.
“Often they come to the same conclusion: People in other parts of the world who have no money are happier than we are!” she told me. “That is eye-opening to some students. But it can be a dangerous thing to write about, because it’s hard to rescue the truth from that cliché.”
Many of the students taking mission trips or doing other charity work outside the country have heartfelt motivations, make a real (if fleeting) contribution and are genuinely enlightened by it. Pérez and Delahunty don’t doubt that. Neither do I.
But there’s cynicism in the mix.
A college admissions counselor once told me about a rich European client of his who called him in a panic, wanting to cancel her family’s usual August vacation so that her son could go build roads in the developing world. She’d just read or heard somewhere that colleges would be impressed by that.
He asked her if she had a roadway or country in mind. She didn’t.
Richard Weissbourd, a child psychologist and Harvard lecturer who has studied
the admissions process in the interest of reforming it, recalled speaking with wealthy
parents who had bought an orphanage in Botswana so their children could have a
project to write and talk about. He later became aware of other parents who had
bought an AIDS clinic in a similarly poor country for the same reason.
“It becomes contagious,” he said.
A more recent phenomenon is teenagers trying to demonstrate their leadership skills in addition to their compassion by starting their own fledgling nonprofit groups rather than contributing to ones that already exist — and that might be more practiced and efficient at what they do.
“It’s a sort of variation on going on a mission trip and figuring out that people all over the world are really the same,” said Stephen Farmer, who’s in charge of undergraduate admissions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“I don’t mean to make light of it,” he added, acknowledging that many such trips and nonprofits have benefits, and not just for the college-bound students engaged in them.
But they’re largely reserved for students whose parents are affluent enough to assist the endeavors. And they’re often approached casually and forgotten quickly. “My concern is that students feel compelled to do these things — forced — rather than feeling that they’re answering some inner call,” Farmer said.
In many cases they are compelled. Tara Dowling, the director of college counseling at the Rocky Hill School in East Greenwich, R.I., said that many secondary schools (including, as it happens, Dylan Hernandez’s) now require a minimum number of hours of service from students, whose schedules — jammed with sports, arts, SAT prep and more — leave little time for it.
Getting it done in one big Central American swoop becomes irresistible, and if that dilutes the intended meaning of the activity, who’s to blame: the students or the adults who set it up this way? Dowling noted that without the right kinds of
“It becomes contagious,” he said.
A more recent phenomenon is teenagers trying to demonstrate their leadership skills in addition to their compassion by starting their own fledgling nonprofit groups rather than contributing to ones that already exist — and that might be more practiced and efficient at what they do.
“It’s a sort of variation on going on a mission trip and figuring out that people all over the world are really the same,” said Stephen Farmer, who’s in charge of undergraduate admissions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“I don’t mean to make light of it,” he added, acknowledging that many such trips and nonprofits have benefits, and not just for the college-bound students engaged in them.
But they’re largely reserved for students whose parents are affluent enough to assist the endeavors. And they’re often approached casually and forgotten quickly. “My concern is that students feel compelled to do these things — forced — rather than feeling that they’re answering some inner call,” Farmer said.
In many cases they are compelled. Tara Dowling, the director of college counseling at the Rocky Hill School in East Greenwich, R.I., said that many secondary schools (including, as it happens, Dylan Hernandez’s) now require a minimum number of hours of service from students, whose schedules — jammed with sports, arts, SAT prep and more — leave little time for it.
Getting it done in one big Central American swoop becomes irresistible, and if that dilutes the intended meaning of the activity, who’s to blame: the students or the adults who set it up this way? Dowling noted that without the right kinds of
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conversations and guidance, “Kids don’t know how to connect these experiences to
the rest of their lives, to the bigger picture.”
There are excellent mission trips, which some students do through churches
that they already belong to, and less excellent ones. There are also plenty of other
summer projects and jobs that can help students develop a deeper, humbler
understanding of the world.
Pérez told me that his favorite among recent essays by Trinity applicants came from someone “who spent the summer working at a coffee shop. He wrote about not realizing until he did this how invisible people in the service industry are. He wrote about how people looked right through him at the counter.” Helicopter parents, stand down! Pérez’s assessment doesn’t mean that you should hustle your teenagers to the nearest Starbucks. It means that whatever they do, they should be able to engage in it fully and reflect on it meaningfully. And if that’s service work, why not address all the need in your own backyard? Many college-bound teenagers do, but not nearly enough, as Hernandez can attest. He feels awfully lonely at the Flint Y.M.C.A. and, in the context of that, wonders, “Why is it fashionable to spend $1,000-plus, 20 hours traveling, and 120 hours volunteering in Guatemala for a week?” He wonders something else, too. “Aren’t the children there sad, getting abandoned by a fresh crop of affluent American teens every few days?” I invite you to follow me on Twitter (@FrankBruni) and join me on Facebook. Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook and Twitter (@NYTopinion), and sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter. |
Welcome Back Class of 2017!
Welcome Back to the Class of 2017!
Here you will find important upcoming dates and deadlines, College Information Sessions and Open Houses, SATs, ACTs, and more!
SAT Test Dates Fall 2016
October 1 - Late Registration deadline: September 20
November 5 - Registration deadline: October 7, Late registration deadline: October 25
December 3 - Registration deadline: November 3, Late registration deadline: November 22
ACT Test Dates Fall 2016
September 10 - Registration has closed
October 22 - Registration deadline: September 16; Late registration September 17-30
December 10 - Registration deadline: November 4; Late registration November 5-18
Senior Parent Night
The Guidance Department will host a Senior Parent College Night on Tuesday, September 13 at 6:30 PM in the PAC. Please note the start time is 6:30 and not 6:00 pm as published in the newsletter. The students are exempt from this meeting as they will see this presentation during the school day on September 15.
Fall 2016 Open Houses
NEACAC College Fair
Saturday September 11
2pm - 4pm
UMass Dartmouth Tripp Athletic Center
Tufts University
Arts Open Houses: One will be on the Medford/Somerville campus, where you can learn about majoring in these areas, engaging with them on an extracurricular level, or about pursuing the 5-year combined degree program with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. The other open house will be on the Fenway campus at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, and will cover information on both the 5-year combined degree program and the BFA program. Learn more here, and register by clicking the date you are interested in below.
Arts Open House 2016 dates:
October 7th (on the Medford/Somerville Campus)
October 28th (on the Fenway Campus)
Engineering Open Houses: Tufts hosts special open houses for high school juniors and seniors who are considering applying to the Tufts School of Engineering. Click through for more information on the Engineering Open House and the Women in Engineering at Tufts program. To register, click the date you are interested in attending below. Engineering Open House 2016 dates:
September 16th
October 21st
Women in Engineering Open House 2016 date:
October 7th
STEM Open Houses: Tufts is on the cutting edge of the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, starting at the very top, with President Anthony Monaco, a renowned geneticist. Our students thrive in the classroom and in the lab. Join us for the STEM Open House, a half day program where prospective students interested in science, technology, engineering, and math can meet Tufts professors, tour campus and laboratory spaces, eat lunch in the dining halls, and talk with current students about their research and internship experiences. Learn more. To register, click the date you are interested in attending below.
STEM Open House 2016 dates:
September 30th
October 14th
Miami University of Ohio Bridges Program
The Bridges Program is an overnight experience for high-achieving high school seniors form historically underrepresented populations or who have a commitment to promoting a deeper understanding of and appreciation for diversity.
November 13-14
Apply at miamioh.edu/bridges - Deadline is September 19, 2016
Hamilton College Saturdays
September 10, 17, 24
October 1, 8, 22, 29
November 5, 12
See schedule online at hamilton.edu/saturdays
Call 800-843-2655 to schedule your interview for a Hamilton Saturday
Trinity College Preview Weekend
Overnight program November 13-14, designed to give seniors in high school an opportunity to explore both the academic and social aspects of the Trinity community, with a focus on the experiences of our students of color.
www.trincoll.edu/admissions/campusvisit/pages/preview.aspx
Apply by October 14, 2016
Villanova University College of Nursing Undergraduate Open House
Sunday September 11, 2016
To register and find directions, visit www.villanova.edu/nursing
UCONN School of Engineering - Women in Engineering Day
October 13, 2016, 9:00am (Registration begins at 8am)
Register at wie.uconn.edu by September 8, 2016
Any questions email ugprograms@engr.uconn.edu
Skidmore College Open Houses
General Campus: Monday October 10 and Friday November 11
Dance OH: Saturday, October 8
Studio Art OH: Saturday October 8
Science/Math OH: Sunday October 23
Theater OH: Saturday October 29
Find more information at skidmore.edu
Plymouth State University Open Houses
Monday, October 10
Saturday, October 29
Saturday, November 5
Saturday, November 12
Bucknell University
Saturday October 1
Saturday October 29 - STEM Open House
Monday November 7
Find more options and register online at bucknell.edu/visit
Syracuse University School of Information Studies
The ITgirls Overnight Retreat
October 9-10
Apply online: itgirls.ischool.syr.edu
theitgirls@syr.edu
Smith College Women of Distinction
October 14-16
To learn more and apply, go to www.smith.edu/admission/wod
Seton Hall University
October 16
November 20
February 19
April 23
www.shu.edu/visiting
Northeastern University’s Marine and Environmental Sciences Department
Marine Science Center Open House in Nahant on October 1st (rain date October 15th). This event is free and open to the public. Visitors will see our state of the art labs, meet many of our faculty and researchers, and see what they do. There will be many opportunities to ask questions and explore interests. Students may also learn more about our undergraduate programs – including Marine Biology – at the following link: http://www.northeastern.edu/cos/mes/welcome-prospective-students
Fall 2016 Information Sessions
Carnegie Mellon University
Sunday, September 11
2pm
Boston Marriott Newton
2345 Commonwealth Ave, Newton, MA 02466
Sunday, October 9
2pm
Hartford Marriott Farmington
15 Farm Springs Rd., Farmington, CT 06032
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
September 11, 2016
2pm
Kresge Auditorium, Building W16
84 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
September 27, 2016
6:30pm
The Wheeler School
Gilder Center for the Arts: Isenberg Auditorium
216 Hope Street
Providence, RI 02906
Middlesex Community College Transition Program
Bedford Campus Center
Thursday October 6
9:00 am - 11:00am
Find more information by searching The Transition Program at www.middlesex.mass.edu
Register by contacting Dyan Darcey at 781-280-3630
Here you will find important upcoming dates and deadlines, College Information Sessions and Open Houses, SATs, ACTs, and more!
SAT Test Dates Fall 2016
October 1 - Late Registration deadline: September 20
November 5 - Registration deadline: October 7, Late registration deadline: October 25
December 3 - Registration deadline: November 3, Late registration deadline: November 22
ACT Test Dates Fall 2016
September 10 - Registration has closed
October 22 - Registration deadline: September 16; Late registration September 17-30
December 10 - Registration deadline: November 4; Late registration November 5-18
Senior Parent Night
The Guidance Department will host a Senior Parent College Night on Tuesday, September 13 at 6:30 PM in the PAC. Please note the start time is 6:30 and not 6:00 pm as published in the newsletter. The students are exempt from this meeting as they will see this presentation during the school day on September 15.
Fall 2016 Open Houses
NEACAC College Fair
Saturday September 11
2pm - 4pm
UMass Dartmouth Tripp Athletic Center
Tufts University
Arts Open Houses: One will be on the Medford/Somerville campus, where you can learn about majoring in these areas, engaging with them on an extracurricular level, or about pursuing the 5-year combined degree program with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. The other open house will be on the Fenway campus at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, and will cover information on both the 5-year combined degree program and the BFA program. Learn more here, and register by clicking the date you are interested in below.
Arts Open House 2016 dates:
October 7th (on the Medford/Somerville Campus)
October 28th (on the Fenway Campus)
Engineering Open Houses: Tufts hosts special open houses for high school juniors and seniors who are considering applying to the Tufts School of Engineering. Click through for more information on the Engineering Open House and the Women in Engineering at Tufts program. To register, click the date you are interested in attending below. Engineering Open House 2016 dates:
September 16th
October 21st
Women in Engineering Open House 2016 date:
October 7th
STEM Open Houses: Tufts is on the cutting edge of the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, starting at the very top, with President Anthony Monaco, a renowned geneticist. Our students thrive in the classroom and in the lab. Join us for the STEM Open House, a half day program where prospective students interested in science, technology, engineering, and math can meet Tufts professors, tour campus and laboratory spaces, eat lunch in the dining halls, and talk with current students about their research and internship experiences. Learn more. To register, click the date you are interested in attending below.
STEM Open House 2016 dates:
September 30th
October 14th
Miami University of Ohio Bridges Program
The Bridges Program is an overnight experience for high-achieving high school seniors form historically underrepresented populations or who have a commitment to promoting a deeper understanding of and appreciation for diversity.
November 13-14
Apply at miamioh.edu/bridges - Deadline is September 19, 2016
Hamilton College Saturdays
September 10, 17, 24
October 1, 8, 22, 29
November 5, 12
See schedule online at hamilton.edu/saturdays
Call 800-843-2655 to schedule your interview for a Hamilton Saturday
Trinity College Preview Weekend
Overnight program November 13-14, designed to give seniors in high school an opportunity to explore both the academic and social aspects of the Trinity community, with a focus on the experiences of our students of color.
www.trincoll.edu/admissions/campusvisit/pages/preview.aspx
Apply by October 14, 2016
Villanova University College of Nursing Undergraduate Open House
Sunday September 11, 2016
To register and find directions, visit www.villanova.edu/nursing
UCONN School of Engineering - Women in Engineering Day
October 13, 2016, 9:00am (Registration begins at 8am)
Register at wie.uconn.edu by September 8, 2016
Any questions email ugprograms@engr.uconn.edu
Skidmore College Open Houses
General Campus: Monday October 10 and Friday November 11
Dance OH: Saturday, October 8
Studio Art OH: Saturday October 8
Science/Math OH: Sunday October 23
Theater OH: Saturday October 29
Find more information at skidmore.edu
Plymouth State University Open Houses
Monday, October 10
Saturday, October 29
Saturday, November 5
Saturday, November 12
Bucknell University
Saturday October 1
Saturday October 29 - STEM Open House
Monday November 7
Find more options and register online at bucknell.edu/visit
Syracuse University School of Information Studies
The ITgirls Overnight Retreat
October 9-10
Apply online: itgirls.ischool.syr.edu
theitgirls@syr.edu
Smith College Women of Distinction
October 14-16
To learn more and apply, go to www.smith.edu/admission/wod
Seton Hall University
October 16
November 20
February 19
April 23
www.shu.edu/visiting
Northeastern University’s Marine and Environmental Sciences Department
Marine Science Center Open House in Nahant on October 1st (rain date October 15th). This event is free and open to the public. Visitors will see our state of the art labs, meet many of our faculty and researchers, and see what they do. There will be many opportunities to ask questions and explore interests. Students may also learn more about our undergraduate programs – including Marine Biology – at the following link: http://www.northeastern.edu/cos/mes/welcome-prospective-students
Fall 2016 Information Sessions
Carnegie Mellon University
Sunday, September 11
2pm
Boston Marriott Newton
2345 Commonwealth Ave, Newton, MA 02466
Sunday, October 9
2pm
Hartford Marriott Farmington
15 Farm Springs Rd., Farmington, CT 06032
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
September 11, 2016
2pm
Kresge Auditorium, Building W16
84 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
September 27, 2016
6:30pm
The Wheeler School
Gilder Center for the Arts: Isenberg Auditorium
216 Hope Street
Providence, RI 02906
Middlesex Community College Transition Program
Bedford Campus Center
Thursday October 6
9:00 am - 11:00am
Find more information by searching The Transition Program at www.middlesex.mass.edu
Register by contacting Dyan Darcey at 781-280-3630
Thursday, June 16, 2016
Villanova University College of Nursing Open House
Villanova University will host a College of Nursing Open House for high school seniors on
Sunday, September 11, 2016.
This is a wonderful opportunity for high school seniors to meet our Dean, faculty, and nursing students and to learn more about what it means to "Be a Villanova Nurse"! Online registration is required www.villanova.edu/nursing and will be available sometime in July.
Sunday, September 11, 2016.
This is a wonderful opportunity for high school seniors to meet our Dean, faculty, and nursing students and to learn more about what it means to "Be a Villanova Nurse"! Online registration is required www.villanova.edu/nursing and will be available sometime in July.
Friday, June 3, 2016
10 Things Every High School Graduate Should Hear
Some helpful advice from a guy who has been there, done that.
Amherst, NH
Grab that diploma, throw that cap in the air and prepare for a bumpy ride.
High schools across the state are celebrating the accomplishments of their students as they prepare to graduate. Students, decked in the ever-fashionable black robes, will finally leave the K-12 school system and embark on the next steps in their journeys.
Proud. Excited. Relieved. Petrified. Just some of the many words buzzing through the heads of these soon-to-be graduates.
Allow me to add some words of wisdom to the mix with some advice every high school graduate should hear:
1. Don’t celebrate just yet
Congratulations. You graduated high school. It is, most likely, no easy feat but things are going to get much more difficult for you.Were you at the top of the class or an all-star athlete in high school? Prepare to face the fact that these titles lose their significance in the post-graduation world. What matters now is the work you put into your life, not what you accomplished in high school. Never be satisfied with your achievements, be prepared to become an over-achiever.
2. Be ready to become the person you always wanted to be
It is true when they say that it doesn’t matter who you were in high school. I have seen the popular kids at my high school dive into the dirt, shy kids come out of their shells and nerds become handsome news editors.College, or the beginning of a career, is a time for transformation. Humans have a hard time breaking out of the personas they choose for themselves, but you are at the perfect age to become whatever you choose. Didn’t like being an under-achiever? Flip that around and become one of the kids you used to always sneer at during award ceremonies. Hated the crowd you hung out with? Find out what you like in people and go find them. Nobody can tell you who to become, that is a choice you make yourself.
3. Make as many friends as possible
We all get comfortable within our little tribe of friends. You will be saying goodbye to many good ones, but plenty more are waiting for you out there. Meet as many of them as possible.The most successful people I know are good at making friends. Join different groups, forge connections and experience people you're unfamiliar with. These people will bring you joy (and may even help you get a job one day.) Not only that, but learning more about others will help you learn more about yourself. Become an extrovert and embrace the complex diversity of the people around you.
4. Never forget your high school friends
You will surely follow my amazing advice and seek out plenty of new friends, but never forget about the ones that have been closest to your heart. These friends have stood by during the childhood years, and they will probably be there during the adult ones.I still have many of my old friends from high school, as well as many new ones from college and post grad. You will change, your friends will change, but there is always a bond there that never wavers. The best of friends will accept the “new you” and walk alongside any path you take. You will be very busy in the classroom or career, but drop them a line once in awhile. You will be glad you did.
5. Be open to new experiences, but also have goals
Just because you are going to school to become a doctor doesn’t mean you have to be using the stethoscope in 8 years. Your transition into adulthood will be filled with many diversions from the course as fate puts all the pieces together.Be ready for change, but also have a set amount of goals you want to accomplish. The most rewarding paths are ones with a prize at the end, even if that road splits or becomes a mountain. Know what you want and have some idea of how you will get there. You may take a different course, but never stop moving forward.
6. The world will be a different place soon. Prepare for it.
Don’t think the job market of today will be the one of tomorrow. Everything is going to change by the time you get out of college, or look for another job. New skills will be needed as society and technology continue to morph themselves.Brace yourself for the future. Think on your feet when changes come and learn to adapt in any situation. Your career path may become obsolete, or some gadget will transform your field forever. Those with their eyes on Yesterday will get smacked in the face by Tomorrow.
7. Alcohol will play a part in your life. Don’t let it become your life.
Sorry to all of your parents. This one cannot be avoided.Alcohol is a major player in our society and a powerful force to deal with at any age. If you are going to college, expect alcohol will try to jam its way into your life. You will have different experiences based on your decision to drink, or not drink. It may change your health, what you do and the people you hang out with.
Looking to drink? I can't stop you. Want to play it sober? Great. Whatever choice you make - don’t let it dominate who you are.
8. Don’t allow yourself to be stupid.
This message certainly applies to drinking, but can be used in all aspects of your future. Never let others convince you that under-achievement and slacking off are “cool” traits. There is nothing cool about being an idiot.Let yourself feel good about learning every day. Don’t be lazy and write off a failure or use it as an excuse to slow down. Dumb people are constantly seeking the easy way out, but the smart ones have quite the different idea. Embrace your talents and the hurdles that you may not be able to overcome right away. If some laugh at your hard work and success, then let them laugh their lives away.
9. Start job searching now
Seriously.Don’t wait until the end of your senior year to hop onto the job search train. I tried that and it made life MUCH harder for the first year of post grad life. If I could go back in time, my resume would have been in the hands of potential employers by junior year.
Make connections. I cannot stress this enough to youngsters in any field of work. You need to build your skills in order to do a job, but a strong connection will make you 80 percent more likely to get it. Get to know the people in your chosen career that interest you and can look up to. Talent rewards talent. I would help out any of my peers from college who proved that they not only knew what to do, but were trustworthy enough to do it right. You will make many more friends this way, and one can never have too many friends.
10. The world is waiting.
Go and get it.Thursday, June 2, 2016
Open Houses - College Visits
University of Pittsburgh: Ready...Set...Pitt!
Learn more about Pitt’s academics, the admissions process, financial aid, and scholarships.
August 12, 2016
http://www.bucknell.edu/ArtsHumanitiesOpenHouse
Walk through campus including residence halls, lecture halls, athletic
facilities, and the Cathedral of Learning with our Pitt Pathfinders and
see Pittsburgh on a bus tour. Meet with representatives from various
academic programs: Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, College of
Business Administration, School of Education, Swanson School of
Engineering, College of General Studies, School of Health and
Rehabilitation Sciences, School of Information Sciences, School of
Nursing, School of Pharmacy, and the School of Social Work.
Discover campus life at our information fair and interact with
Athletics, the Pitt Band, the Pitt Police, Study Abroad counselors,
Student Affairs staff, and others. Morning refreshments, lunch, and
parking are complimentary.
Only four Saturdays this Summer!
- July 9
- July 16
- July 30
- August 6
- Register Online @ oafa.pitt.edu/visit
August 12, 2016
http://www.bucknell.edu/ArtsHumanitiesOpenHouse
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