The Background Once upon a time, college and university was meant only for the most elite that society had to offer. This typically meant wealth, but that wealth meant a person likely had the best opportunity to learn from people who: A. knew their stuff and B. cared enough about how that stuff got to […]
Author: Tim Fitzmaurice
Why Is This So Difficult: Anxiety in College Essay Writing
It looks like this: You can’t come close to deciding on a topic and so you never get started. You have topics to choose from, but they all seem cliche and cringy. You start to write, but everything comes out sounding like a Hallmark Card or like some overblown diary entry. You want to delete […]
One Size Fits All? The Dilemma of the Undeclared
The Problem: Pressure to know what you want to do with your life in your late teens Like a lot of parents, I used the old adage “You can be anything you want to be” with my daughter before she could even speak. As she got a little bigger and a little more aware, she […]
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