Monthly Archives: March 2010
Student Open Forum
The University of Michigan-Flint will be hosting a Student Open Forum tomorrow.
As a student, I absolutely love that we do this. It gives students the opportunity to voice their opinions. It also brings up a lot of topics that are extremely important to students that those in charge of the University may not even realize.
Welcome to It’sMILife
Welcome to It’s MI Life, a non-profit site designed to help students in Michigan get their questions about college. There are lots of ways to get involved. Become a blogger, show your multimedia skills and research Michigan schools. Ask questions. … Continue reading
“R – T – P”
"R T P" is a famous quote — well, famous within our family anyway — a pronouncement made many times by my Dad, which I and my brothers and sisters mightily mocked. It stands for "READ THE PROBLEM."
Now, this might seem like a simple and obvious statement. Right? But in fact, it is one of the most crucial pieces of advice I can pass on to a student, to someone interviewing for a job, or to anyone answering an email!
Losing faith
I have found and often times seen during my High School and Junior High career is that often time’s students lose sight of their goals. Take me for example, almost every school year, I start the year off with good grades, I get my homework done, and I’m able to balance school and extra-circulars. But then second quarter came and I started slacking off, and my grades reflected my effort. I didn’t feel I needed to try anymore, and that spending time with friends and what not was more important than my academics. Continue reading
The First School Formal – Mardi Gras Masquerade
Okay, so Saturday was my schools first dance ever, well formal dance. The schools been up for two years now, and we decided to have our first formal dance. Many students’ expectations weren’t very high because we didn’t know what it’d be like. There was a dance committee, but you didn’t get to volunteer for it or anything, so the rest of the student body was pretty much left out of the mix. We were asked a couple of times what kind of dance we wanted and the overall decision came to a Mardi Gras Masquerade. Continue reading