Visiting Barnard College My daughter and I took a tour of Barnard College. These are our takeaways: Small campus across the street from Columbia Barnard students take classes and rush sororities at Columbia Barnard students can eat at Columbia and vice versus Rules at Barnard for overnight guests. Can’t have the same guest three nights…
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Visiting Brown University
Visiting Brown University It’s easy to fall in love with Brown University. Set in gorgeous College Hill right above Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), it’s walking distance to charming shops and restaurants in downtown Providence. The campus is defined with boundaries while still being a part of the city. The proximity to RISD gives…
Learn to Network: Harvard’s Networking 101
I recently attended a Networking 101 event for Harvard undergraduates. As an alum, I was there to help students practice networking, but I was also there to recruit interns for my own company, Aquent. It was a well attended event, with undergraduates from all years and alumni from recent graduates to old timers like myself!…
Visiting Carnegie Mellon University and seeing my father’s doppelgänger
This statue caught my eye when I was visiting Carnegie Mellon University with my daughter. The man looked like my father! I had to learn more. Mao Yisheng was a famous engineer and first Ph.D. recipient at Carnegie Mellon University. Mao came to Pittsburgh, a city of bridges, to learn about bridge construction for his…
Visiting Northwestern University (and happy news!)
My middle daughter fell in love with Northwestern University on September 2, 2017, when we did an impromptu visit as we were already in the area to visit SAIC (School of Art Institute of Chicago) for my oldest. I recorded it here: There was just something visercal about her reaction to the school. It was…
7 Ways Former Helicopter Parents Can Empower Their Soon-To-Be Undergraduate
For some parents, the thought of their children transitioning into college life is equal parts exciting and frightening. Boosting your child’s chances of success depends on your ability to enable their independence— a skill helicopter parents have a habit of overlooking. To ensure optimal long-term and short-term success, future undergraduates should take the lead in…
How To Land a Summer Internship
It’s that time of year when college students need to land a summer internship and in a poor economic environment that’s no easy task. So what to do? I am using my college student daughter as an example (without her permission). How To Land a Summer Internship Step 1: Create Your LinkedIn Profile You probably…