Mar 31, 2017
This week, I cover:
- 6 Ways That Most Workshops Fail in the First Five Minutes (aka 6 Terrible Ways to Start a Workshop)
- 9 Tips for Leading a Workshop of Any Size
- 5 Potentially Life-Changing Workshop Moments
- Bee tea dubs: These are essentially three of the modules from the Essay Workshop in a Box--there are 29 total,...
Mar 31, 2017
Curious how to make the most of your upcoming summer? There's a lot you can do (and they don't all cost money.) This episode, we cover:
- Great questions to ask when it comes to planning a summer
- The 2014 National Pre-College Summer Survey, which Jill and her co-author put together based on asking 50 colleges: What...
Mar 29, 2017
Ever wonder what you should include in an appeal letter? This week, Jodi and I cover:
- Who should make the call to a financial aid office: the student or parent?
- What to literally say to a financial aid officer when you call them to appeal
- Why you maybe shouldn’t start off the conversation by mentioning a financial...
Mar 28, 2017
I chat with Dr. Aliza Gilbert about how to support undocumented students. We chat about:
- What terms to use (and not use) when working with undocumented students
- What the Dream Act is and why not all students love the term “Dreamers”
- What percent of kids born right now are born to undocumented parents
- Whether or not...
Mar 25, 2017
I chat with current Harvard student Daishi Tanaka. We chat about:
- What a typical day is like for a Harvard student
- What it might mean for him and 700,000+ other undocumented students if the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy is repealed
- What Daishi wrote his college essay about and why
- What he felt...