Do the risky and opposite if you want to be amazing

college search process
How? It’s safe to follow the tried and true advice. Now ask yourself, “How did my college dining hall experience amaze me?”

 

i’m proposing High Schoolers begin their right-fit college search using “Best College Cafeterias in the Country“.

Organize your time and energy around quality of life, starting with food.

If a University can nail their dining hall experience, when so many others can’t, think of the odds of them getting many other things right also.

Here’s the thing, what happens when you share this strategy with anyone involved in the college admissions process?

Be bold.

Go.

 

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Radical innovation

Goucher College Library
Goucher College Library last night after dinner.

 

Apple Store Towson
Apple Store Towson last night after cheese match (i lost btw).

 

Replace college essay with a two-minute video application.

Throw out all our traditional methods for submitting a Goucher application. Christopher was sitting next to the President when this topic came up.

It helped win them an Innovation award.

 

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Road trip to Goucher 5/5

Boarding pass on watch
Right now. About to scan my boarding pass and walk down the jetway.

 

Southwest airlines
We all have a story worth sharing.

 

Here’s to hoping the college we are visiting has an awesome cafeteria.

 

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Like we were back in college

Highland Trail hike
Wow.

 

Highland Trail hike
The easy part was ridiculously easy.

 

Highland Trail hike
Sun is going down.

 

Highland Trail hike
Sun still illuminating the 9k+ foot Reynolds Mountain.

 

Highland Trail hike
Looking East, Logan Pass parking lot is almost empty at 8pm.

 

Two Dog Flats
Brief drive just past Rising Sun to Two Dog Flats for a quick try at bear spotting.

 

Dinner at Logan Pass last night included leftovers from lunch (at Swiftcurrent) and other items we purchased the day we arrived but hadn’t yet touched. It was nice to have the spontaneity to improvise. This wouldn’t have happened had we not been decently organized.

 

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Now that’s one helluva dream if we got a do-over at college

Recently watched some end-of-the-College-year packing up as the school year cameo an end and students are preparing for their drive home. It was different watching it this time for some reason. i witnessed so many trips from their apartments to their cars. So much stuff.

i was that person. You may have been too.

Most college students go through this ritual.

But what if?

What if all we needed was a Macbook (or iPad), iPhone, headphones, and a few clothing essentials – a pair of good running shoes, two pairs of jeans, two pairs of jean shorts, seven t-shirts, one sweatshirt. Five pairs of running shorts and five pairs of socks. Toiletries. A frisbee. A small backpack for campus, and a larger backpack to carry everything home and back to school. Two washable water bottles. First aid kit. Lighter.

Our books could be digital.

Our meals could be provided.

Our snacks wouldn’t require cooking (or cooking utensils).

Travel light.

Now that’s one helluva dream if we got a do-over at college, knowing then what we now now.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

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