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Planting Seeds
The first rule of farming is to plant the seeds of the crop that you intend to grow. Admittedly, I am not a farmer, and in the interest of full disclosure, I don’t know the first rule of farming. However, if I was writing an idiot’s pamphlet to farming this would be in my top…
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I have an IDEA…
Each year WACAC offers several pre-conferences for admission professionals to address specific topics in more depth during the annual conference. Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA), is one of the pre-conferences. IDEA is designed to create a safe space that encourages and supports the discussion of issues of diversity that are often sensitive and require…
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What the WACAC?
With the conference fast approaching, I figure I would give a breakdown of exactly what the social media themes are for each day of the conference and how you can participate to make @WACAC a better community than it already is. Here is a brief synopsis: Make sure you are tagging #WACAC2014 and are following…
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Inside/Outside
Art education is often so completely underrated. You want to develop grit, or other skills that will help you survive in the workplace after college? Make art (and learn about the process of making it). The majority of my students have trained in the arts; that’s how I market myself, given that I’m someone still…
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Lizzie Bennett
The college process has a lot of fairy tale-like aspects. Like Cinderella, I’ve had to research, visit, and perform all sorts of tedious tasks before being able to show up at the ball, or the Common App. My fairy godmother came in the form of my high school counselor who tirelessly read all my essays…
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Keep Calm and…..either way summer is coming
This is my second to last blog in this series and I thought that I would double back to where I began. The bio Dome. I won’t rehash the whole thing right here because it’s available on this site and you are free to peruse it at your leisure. However, the basic idea is that…
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Reflecting on My “Freshman Year” as a College Counselor
It hasn’t quite been a full year for me as a college counselor, but with the school year drawing to a close (20 school days til graduation!), it’s time to look back on how my ’til “freshman year” on the high school side went. I started in the fall like most actual freshmen do—wide-eyed, optimistic, and…
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Driving Into the Future
My Options Now to explain how I have narrowed down my options I have to explain all of my options. I was accepted to three schools: all Catholic, four-year institutions. Two of them are in-state and one is two states away. Even though only these schools accepted me, I was wait listed at two other…
