College applications are underway and many students across the country are trying for that last ACT or SAT score increase, hoping it will gain them a berth to a highly selective college. The pressure builds as families stake their hopes on trying to get past the malicious admissions officers who would keep their child out [read more] …
College Admissions
Another Piece of the Career Puzzle
A student’s path to finding a career is too often a hazy trail with many switchbacks. Teens are often encouraged to follow their hearts and take interesting classes, which is true in some degree. But they are rarely challenged to look at the long-term costs of their training, their employability upon college graduation, or where [read more] …
Do Something Your Friends Don’t
The first question most students ask me is how to make themselves stand out from the thousands of other kids who are applying to college. The answer is fairly simple. Do something your friends don’t. It is that easy and that difficult. Instead of participating in something your friend would, do something an adult would [read more] …
Translation Issues
My constant challenge as an art student is to represent a three-dimensional object, person, or scene on a one-dimensional piece of paper. To be successful, I must draw it so that the viewer sees all dimensions even though it is a flat plane. I am, in effect, translating what I see so that others see [read more] …
Context Matters
Students across the country are finishing up their junior year and will soon begin the college application process. They will only have an essay, 8-10 spaces for all their extracurricular activities, maybe a couple of short answer questions, plus recommendations from their counselor and teachers to explain who they are to colleges. So much has [read more] …