The vast majority of college essays that are focused on a student’s mental health disorders/illness do NOT work well. Often, I do not believe the student is ready to attend a rigorous, academically unforgiving college.
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College applicants. Parents. Counselors. I’ve read many essays so far this cycle where a student talks about their mental health struggles…I’ll spare the sometimes graphic details.
So many students believe they should write about some struggle they have overcome and while that is a prompt, many mental illness/diagnoses can take years of support/help to address and manage, and aren’t really appropriate here. That prompt is not asking for a ‘trauma dump’ as the students call it.
And counselors who write about a student’s mental health disorders but the student said nothing about it in their app? Especially if it’s a strong student/applicant? Why? Just don’t. Please.
Dear neighbors - I’ve used my super cool electric blower to return the leaves your landscaping crew blown onto our driveway back to your yard I assume they did it by accident. You are welcome!
If the Department of Education is eliminated, will that affect colleges? If elite colleges are “heavily taxed” as promised, will available financial aid change? What about loans?
OMG! TURN OFF YOUR HI-BEAMS!!! Seriously are you so oblivious to those coming at you and those you are following that you don’t recognize you are blinding everyone!
My neighbor lost his wallet at the grocery store & someone found it. They then posted a picture of his drivers license on a citywide “happenings” Facebook page, and someone who saw it there shared it to our neighborhood Facebook page. He got it removed eventually, but it was out there for the public to see. Geez, people … think!!!
Well, my tests have been normal until you put me on a statin, so it seemed kinda obvious that maybe I don’t need to be on that much ---- it’s hard to feel good about doctors when I am doing half the work. Yes, let’s change the dose and see what happens, shall we? Anything else you need me to do for you? Chart my results? Good grief, US healthcare is just so … subpar.
My Aunt Eleanor passed away today. Her parents, my mother and my aunt arrived in NYC in October 1939. She was born in 1940–surprise! She spent a huge amount of time with me, my parents, and brothers when we were kids, and I was so jealous of her for my parents’ attention! But we had a tiny family, and we grew very close as I approached middle age and especially after I adopted my daughter from China in 1998.
My aunt had a pretty steep decline over the past few years, but she was able to go to my daughter’s wedding a year ago today and even danced a bit steering her rollator. I stayed in her condo when I was in MA in October for Rosh Hashana. She had around-the-clock caretakers there and passed away during her afternoon nap. She leaves two children and their spouses, and five grandchildren. And I’m the matriarch now.
You are part of the “Covid is just a cold or a flu” crowd.
So you stopped at Urgent Care because you suddenly didn’t feel well on the way home from a funeral. Who would have thought? I don’t think I’ve ever gone to Urgent Care for a cold.
So glad you stayed home for six days, except for going to the grocery store. Um, do you realize you were contagious at the funeral?
Our 11th grader is taking AP Psychology, was studying for a big test, and was telling me about what they learned in class about growth mindset vs fixed mindset. And then she told me that she thinks DH & I have a growth mindset (belief that your abilities & intelligence can grow through your own efforts, learning, etc.; and failures are to be looked at as opportunities to learn & grow). And that she feels like she has a growth mindset, too.
This is so crazy to me - the government asking Costco to have customers destroy 80,000 Pounds of Butter that is perfectly good - because it wasn’t labeled as containing milk.
I guess it’s probably fairly common, but it is so weird to me that my dad thinks I’m a raving liberal and my daughter thinks I’m a crazy conservative. Oh, well.
