Thursday
URL Change for Blog
In the immediate future, the URL for this blog will change from http://www.thereddevilsden.com/ to http://thereddevilsden.blogspot.com/.
Friday
Wednesday
Tuesday
The trail to Oregon - Cross-country bikers stop in area
By ANDREW POTTER, TIMES-REPUBLICAN (Marshalltown, IA) POSTED: June 22, 2010 Save
Andre Lekich, left, and Avi Keremidchieva are biking it from Pennsylvania to Oregon to learn more about the country. Both are recent graduates of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Penn. and stopped in Marshalltown Monday in the middle of a 70-day journey.
The ink was barely dry on their diplomas when two recent college graduates started a trip to learn lessons they couldn't find in the classroom.
Andre Lekich and Avi Keremidchieva, graduates of Dickinson College in Carlise, Penn., set out a 3,200-mile bike journey from Pennsylvania to Oregon three on May 28 and made a quick stop in Marshalltown Monday. The friends spent Sunday night in a park in Toledo.
The two both felt they wanted to learn more about the country and its people and see the sights only their bike seat would afford.
"When you cycle you see so much more than when you're in a car," the 23-year-old Keremidchieva said.
They are riding on average 60 miles a day for the 70-day trip. The two often find kind strangers who will let them sleep in their garage or backyard and sometimes breakfast is waiting for them when they wake up.
"What has really surprised me is the generosity of people," Keremidchieva said.
Lekich, 22, said they also want to pass along a message of sustainable transportation and encourage people to ride their bikes more often.
"If you can go across the country on a bike you can go around in your hometown," Lekich said.
Aside from moments of hitting heavy storms, Lekich has enjoyed the calming affect of being out in the nature.
"It's real nice on a country road to stop and have the silence around you," he said.
Both confirmed their goal of learning about the country is being realized through the trip and the people they meet.
"We learn about separate regions and what their industries are," Keremidchieva said. "We get small pieces from every region."
They plan to make it to Portland by Aug. 4 then hope to check their bikes for the flight back to Pennsylvania.
Keremidchieva plans to return to her native Bulgaria after the trip while Lekich, a native of West Chester, Penn., said he has aspirations to land a job in Italy. Both have international business degrees and surprisingly both said they are looking forward to hitting the Rocky Mountains.
Contact Andrew Potter at 641-753-6611 or apotter@timesrepublican.com
Andre Lekich, left, and Avi Keremidchieva are biking it from Pennsylvania to Oregon to learn more about the country. Both are recent graduates of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Penn. and stopped in Marshalltown Monday in the middle of a 70-day journey.
The ink was barely dry on their diplomas when two recent college graduates started a trip to learn lessons they couldn't find in the classroom.
Andre Lekich and Avi Keremidchieva, graduates of Dickinson College in Carlise, Penn., set out a 3,200-mile bike journey from Pennsylvania to Oregon three on May 28 and made a quick stop in Marshalltown Monday. The friends spent Sunday night in a park in Toledo.
The two both felt they wanted to learn more about the country and its people and see the sights only their bike seat would afford.
"When you cycle you see so much more than when you're in a car," the 23-year-old Keremidchieva said.
They are riding on average 60 miles a day for the 70-day trip. The two often find kind strangers who will let them sleep in their garage or backyard and sometimes breakfast is waiting for them when they wake up.
"What has really surprised me is the generosity of people," Keremidchieva said.
Lekich, 22, said they also want to pass along a message of sustainable transportation and encourage people to ride their bikes more often.
"If you can go across the country on a bike you can go around in your hometown," Lekich said.
Aside from moments of hitting heavy storms, Lekich has enjoyed the calming affect of being out in the nature.
"It's real nice on a country road to stop and have the silence around you," he said.
Both confirmed their goal of learning about the country is being realized through the trip and the people they meet.
"We learn about separate regions and what their industries are," Keremidchieva said. "We get small pieces from every region."
They plan to make it to Portland by Aug. 4 then hope to check their bikes for the flight back to Pennsylvania.
Keremidchieva plans to return to her native Bulgaria after the trip while Lekich, a native of West Chester, Penn., said he has aspirations to land a job in Italy. Both have international business degrees and surprisingly both said they are looking forward to hitting the Rocky Mountains.
Contact Andrew Potter at 641-753-6611 or apotter@timesrepublican.com
Wednesday
Dickinson College - Iceland Volcano
Talk about an education. Read more about the experience of a lifetime for several Dickinson students studying abroad.
Dickinson College - Iceland Volcano
Dickinson College - Iceland Volcano
Thursday
Founding of Dickinson College Enhances the Status of Carlisle......
Carlisle was found in 1751 as a county seat of the newly-created Cumberland County. Both the town and the county were intended by the colonial General Assembly and the Penn family in Philadelphia to be the opening of the frontier west of the Susquehanna River. This meant a fiery and violent era of frontier drama for over ten years. World wars swept over the town and county and brought such figures as Benjamin Franklin, Hugh Mercer, Henry Bouquet, and John Forbes to the square of Carlisle.
The French and Indian War of the 1750s and the 1760s trained a generation of leaders for the American Revolution in the 1770s and the 1780s. The first battalion of what became the United States Army was raised here. The town was home to three signers of the Declaration of Independence. Men and women from the town went off to war and returned with fame and rank that lifted Carlisle to new distinction. Part of the recognition of the new status was the founding of Dickinson College in 1783, the first college chartered in the new nation.
To read the full article, click on the link below:
The French and Indian War of the 1750s and the 1760s trained a generation of leaders for the American Revolution in the 1770s and the 1780s. The first battalion of what became the United States Army was raised here. The town was home to three signers of the Declaration of Independence. Men and women from the town went off to war and returned with fame and rank that lifted Carlisle to new distinction. Part of the recognition of the new status was the founding of Dickinson College in 1783, the first college chartered in the new nation.
To read the full article, click on the link below:
Monday
A Campus Highlight We Often Took For Granted.......
Remember walking through campus or just "hanging out" on the lawn. The campus has always been blessed with wonderful shade trees of many sizes, shapes and varieties. Well - here's your chance to learn a little more about those trees. Follow the link at the bottom of this post to learn more. Thanks for sharing this with us Dickinson.
Friday
Dickinson on iTunes
Amazing what the world of technology offers today. Check this out. Great source of info for students, alum, prospective students and the community at large.....
Tuesday
Dickinson College U-Turn
A tip of this alumnus's hat to the students at D'son for conducting the program described below. Nice job!
Turn your second hand into someone’s second chance!
What is U-Turn?
U-Turn is a Student Senate initiative designed to benefit The United Way. At the end of the spring semester, large bins for donations will be placed in residence areas. While you are packing up to leave for the summer, we ask that you donate items that you don’t want to take home. You can place these items in the bins marked for U-Turn. These items will be collected by volunteers and donated to United Way. Food donations will be given to Project Share. United Way will then hold a large yard sale in June for the Carlisle area. All proceeds of this event benefit United Way.
Turn your second hand into someone’s second chance!
What is U-Turn?
U-Turn is a Student Senate initiative designed to benefit The United Way. At the end of the spring semester, large bins for donations will be placed in residence areas. While you are packing up to leave for the summer, we ask that you donate items that you don’t want to take home. You can place these items in the bins marked for U-Turn. These items will be collected by volunteers and donated to United Way. Food donations will be given to Project Share. United Way will then hold a large yard sale in June for the Carlisle area. All proceeds of this event benefit United Way.
Thursday
Warhol at the Trout Gallery, Dickinson College
Interesting exhibit of Polaroid portraits by Andy Warhol
Monday
Friday
Former Michael Jackson Choreographer to Speak at Dickinson
Director and choreographer Vincent Paterson will return to his alma mater Dickinson College to talk about his career in the entertainment business with a lecture at 7 p.m. March 31 in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium on West Louther Street. The event, titled “The Man Behind the Thrones and Then Some,” is free and open to the public.
Paterson, who graduated from Dickinson in 1972, directed and choreographed Madonna’s “Blond Ambition” tour and Michael Jackson’s “Bad” tour. He also choreographed Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” music videos.
Paterson is returning to the college as a Metzger-Conway fellow. The program is sponsored by The Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues. For more information, visit http://www.clarkeforum.org/ or call 245-1875
Paterson, who graduated from Dickinson in 1972, directed and choreographed Madonna’s “Blond Ambition” tour and Michael Jackson’s “Bad” tour. He also choreographed Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” music videos.
Paterson is returning to the college as a Metzger-Conway fellow. The program is sponsored by The Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues. For more information, visit http://www.clarkeforum.org/ or call 245-1875
Thursday
Thinking Outside the Bird Box
From the Carlisle Sentinel
Opinion: An idea that's for the birds
By Rich Lewis, Sentinel Columnist, March 18, 2010
Imagine a 24-foot-high wooden monument rising just off one of Carlisle’s main streets intended to commemorate a long-time relationship, preserve a bit of history and celebrate the virtues of recycling.
Think that idea is for the birds?
Well, actually, you’d be right — because that’s part of it, too.
In fact, it’s going to be named the “Curtilage Birdhouse,” and it will soon be up on the Dickinson College campus.
Now, as a backyard bird-fancier myself, I must say that when I first heard about it, I was totally charmed by the idea of a gigantic birdhouse gracing the local landscape. So I called college President Bill Durden to ask who thought this up.
“You’re talking to him,” he replied.
Durden and some other college officials were on a tour of the new Lewis Katz Hall at the Penn State Dickinson School of Law, down the street from the college, when he spotted on the ground the huge cupola that used to sit atop the Levinson Curtilage, the law school dorm demolished to make way for the new building.
The law school people said they didn’t know what they were going to do with it, so Durden pulled aside Ken Shultes, the college’s head of campus operations, and said, “Why don’t you just ask them if we can have it.”
Shultes did, and, “They said, sure, take it.”
Now, I collect junk. I’ve got a basement and barn full of it. But I’m not sure even I would be tempted by a 3,500-pound steeple made of rotting, water-stained wood and shedding old paint like dandruff. What in the world did Durden plan to do with this white elephant?
“A birdhouse,” he replied. “That emerged immediately in my head.”
The Levinson Curtilage and its crowning cupola were built in 1953 and, as Durden explained, “It’s not a piece of art. It’s actually a little building. It was just, well, I said to myself, ‘That’s a birdhouse.’”
See what a lifetime in academia will do to you? It makes you.... ummm.... think creatively.
Curtilage, by the way, is an old British term for an enclosed area outside a dwelling. That’s also what a lifetime in academia will do to you — make you look things up.
Durden’s vision had elements beyond chickadees and sparrows. Although the two schools have never had a formal relationship, many of the college’s graduates went on to study at the law school. So, Durden says, “I got the wild idea of dedicating this birdhouse to the generations of dual degree holders from both the college and the law school.”
He’s been planning a fall dedication ceremony with federal judge John Jones, who gained national attention presiding over the “intelligent design” trial in the Dover School District — and who happens to be one of those dual-degree holders.
Durden also sees the structure as expressing “the continuity of history,” and illustrating “how you can have a bit of fun with recycling things.” Add in the birds and, “It’s all part of our environmental movement.”
Of course, the guy at the top gets paid to come up with the big ideas — but it’s the guy below who has to figure out how to implement them.
In this case, that’s Shultes.
First, he had to hire a crane to move the cupola to the college’s facilities building. Next he’ll set a crew to work fixing it up.
“We have extremely skilled in-house craftsmen. They’ll repair it, paint it and then we’ll prep the site,” he says.
The site is a rocky field near Morgan Hall, a Dickinson dorm, right off High Street.
I asked Shultes exactly how a cupola is turned into a birdhouse.
“That is an excellent question,” he replied. “Put some perches on it and some bird food, I guess.”
I wondered if Shultes was worried if the occasionally exuberant Dickinson students might develop other plans for the structure, which looks eminently climbable and sports a copper dome topped with a pointy spike. He said no, that his biggest concern is another large group of campus residents: “We have to find a way to invite the birds in and keep the squirrels out.”
Transforming a massive roof ornament into a birdhouse isn’t your typical maintenance project, and I asked Shultes where it ranks among the unusual things he’s been asked to do over the years.
“Oh man, it ranks right at the top,” he said. “Probably only Bruce the Shark came close.”
Bruce is a huge fiberglass shark that lives in the pond outside the college’s gym. At least it doesn’t need to be fed.
As for Durden, he says the birdhouse “ranks right up there” with his best brainstorms. “I’m truly proud of this. I like these spontaneous ideas.”
Besides, he says, “I like birds. As a kid, I raised chickens. And I had ducks for pets.”
Thank goodness it wasn’t goats and alligators.
But I love this idea. Some guy in Louisiana once claimed to be in the Guinness World Records for having the world’s largest birdhouse.
It was 8 feet tall and weighed 1,000 pounds.
Pish. You want to see a really big birdhouse — come to Carlisle, Pa.
Opinion: An idea that's for the birds
By Rich Lewis, Sentinel Columnist, March 18, 2010
Imagine a 24-foot-high wooden monument rising just off one of Carlisle’s main streets intended to commemorate a long-time relationship, preserve a bit of history and celebrate the virtues of recycling.
Think that idea is for the birds?
Well, actually, you’d be right — because that’s part of it, too.
In fact, it’s going to be named the “Curtilage Birdhouse,” and it will soon be up on the Dickinson College campus.
Now, as a backyard bird-fancier myself, I must say that when I first heard about it, I was totally charmed by the idea of a gigantic birdhouse gracing the local landscape. So I called college President Bill Durden to ask who thought this up.
“You’re talking to him,” he replied.
Durden and some other college officials were on a tour of the new Lewis Katz Hall at the Penn State Dickinson School of Law, down the street from the college, when he spotted on the ground the huge cupola that used to sit atop the Levinson Curtilage, the law school dorm demolished to make way for the new building.
The law school people said they didn’t know what they were going to do with it, so Durden pulled aside Ken Shultes, the college’s head of campus operations, and said, “Why don’t you just ask them if we can have it.”
Shultes did, and, “They said, sure, take it.”
Now, I collect junk. I’ve got a basement and barn full of it. But I’m not sure even I would be tempted by a 3,500-pound steeple made of rotting, water-stained wood and shedding old paint like dandruff. What in the world did Durden plan to do with this white elephant?
“A birdhouse,” he replied. “That emerged immediately in my head.”
The Levinson Curtilage and its crowning cupola were built in 1953 and, as Durden explained, “It’s not a piece of art. It’s actually a little building. It was just, well, I said to myself, ‘That’s a birdhouse.’”
See what a lifetime in academia will do to you? It makes you.... ummm.... think creatively.
Curtilage, by the way, is an old British term for an enclosed area outside a dwelling. That’s also what a lifetime in academia will do to you — make you look things up.
Durden’s vision had elements beyond chickadees and sparrows. Although the two schools have never had a formal relationship, many of the college’s graduates went on to study at the law school. So, Durden says, “I got the wild idea of dedicating this birdhouse to the generations of dual degree holders from both the college and the law school.”
He’s been planning a fall dedication ceremony with federal judge John Jones, who gained national attention presiding over the “intelligent design” trial in the Dover School District — and who happens to be one of those dual-degree holders.
Durden also sees the structure as expressing “the continuity of history,” and illustrating “how you can have a bit of fun with recycling things.” Add in the birds and, “It’s all part of our environmental movement.”
Of course, the guy at the top gets paid to come up with the big ideas — but it’s the guy below who has to figure out how to implement them.
In this case, that’s Shultes.
First, he had to hire a crane to move the cupola to the college’s facilities building. Next he’ll set a crew to work fixing it up.
“We have extremely skilled in-house craftsmen. They’ll repair it, paint it and then we’ll prep the site,” he says.
The site is a rocky field near Morgan Hall, a Dickinson dorm, right off High Street.
I asked Shultes exactly how a cupola is turned into a birdhouse.
“That is an excellent question,” he replied. “Put some perches on it and some bird food, I guess.”
I wondered if Shultes was worried if the occasionally exuberant Dickinson students might develop other plans for the structure, which looks eminently climbable and sports a copper dome topped with a pointy spike. He said no, that his biggest concern is another large group of campus residents: “We have to find a way to invite the birds in and keep the squirrels out.”
Transforming a massive roof ornament into a birdhouse isn’t your typical maintenance project, and I asked Shultes where it ranks among the unusual things he’s been asked to do over the years.
“Oh man, it ranks right at the top,” he said. “Probably only Bruce the Shark came close.”
Bruce is a huge fiberglass shark that lives in the pond outside the college’s gym. At least it doesn’t need to be fed.
As for Durden, he says the birdhouse “ranks right up there” with his best brainstorms. “I’m truly proud of this. I like these spontaneous ideas.”
Besides, he says, “I like birds. As a kid, I raised chickens. And I had ducks for pets.”
Thank goodness it wasn’t goats and alligators.
But I love this idea. Some guy in Louisiana once claimed to be in the Guinness World Records for having the world’s largest birdhouse.
It was 8 feet tall and weighed 1,000 pounds.
Pish. You want to see a really big birdhouse — come to Carlisle, Pa.
Wednesday
Tuesday
Sunday
Another Yearbook on the Auction Block
I'm not "getting this" guys. Why would someone sell their yearbook? And who would buy it? This is the second one in less than a week that's gone up on ebay? What's up with this? And sorry - but I don't get the reference to "Cornell Songs".........
Friday
Where Were You On February 10, 1973?
March Madness 2010 approaches. Last nite I watched Georgetown dismantle powerhouse Syracuse and it brought back memories. Maybe you were there in 1973. If you weren't you missed a bit of Dickinson basketball history.....
Don't Let the Bow Tie Fool You...
Many may not realize it, but our "bow-tied" President has always had a little "edgy" side to him as is demonstrated in his signature on my pledge paddle during the Fall of 1970.......
Wednesday
Bill Durden "Re-ups" as Pres
I was ecstatic to receive the following e-mail announcement this afternoon. I'm especially proud to say I'm a Theta Chi Fraternity Brother of Bill's and proudly maintain my pledge paddle with Bill's "unique" signature. One of these days I'll post a pic of it on here.
Congratulations Bill and congratulations Dickinson - you've both made wise choices.
The Release
March 10, 2010
To the Dickinson Community:
It is with great pleasure that I write to inform you that President Durden, who will complete 11 years of service this June, has agreed to remain as Dickinson College’s president for the foreseeable future. Since Bill became president in 1999, the college has experienced unprecedented progress on virtually every front. During the past decade, Dickinson has developed a distinctive identity and purpose rooted in the vision of our founder, Dr. Benjamin Rush, and fueled by a compelling contemporary narrative that emphasizes the college’s “useful,” pragmatic approach to a liberal-arts education—a liberal-arts education with intentionality.
At least the next six years will be critical as Dickinson seeks to sustain this momentum and advance its contribution to liberal-arts education, particularly in a difficult economy. It is at times such as these that experienced and consistent leadership grow ever more important to an institution. The administrative team assembled by Bill has a proven track record of working collegially to achieve measurable results, and I am confident there is no better individual nor senior management team to lead our college through this next set of challenges. Bill’s energy and commitment to Dickinson is, if anything, stronger than the day he arrived.
When Bill and I discussed the possibility of his remaining as president, he expressed his determination to solidify at the college a culture of institutional transformation and high accomplishment. Where others might see less room for opportunity in these most challenging financial times, Bill sees entrepreneurial possibilities for which Dickinson is distinctively poised. It is precisely this challenge as well as the college’s distinctive mission that inspire Bill’s leadership.
In addition, while the current capital campaign is scheduled to reach its successful conclusion in 2011, we are already envisioning the opportunities that lie beyond through a comprehensive strategic-planning effort that the college community will be given the opportunity to participate in later this year.
Above all, Bill’s decision reflects the personal satisfaction he continues to receive from his responsibilities and, most of all, from being associated with a winner. Shortly after Bill’s arrival, the Wall Street Journal in 2001 asserted that Dickinson College was one of 16 colleges or universities (and only one of four liberal-arts colleges) in the United States “poised” for leadership in the 21st century as it offered its students the knowledge and skills most essential to engage successfully our contemporary, complex world. By all accounts, the college has lived up to the Wall Street Journal’s prediction.
The progress the college has made has convinced us all that we will succeed in our quest to be uniquely Dickinson and fulfill the bold mandate for democracy and education which our founder proposed at our chartering in September 1783. As Bill has reminded us so often, Dr. Rush’s vision was never fully embraced at the college or throughout the nation. Today, however, Dickinson is positioned for even more substantive accomplishment by doing what it does best—educating students through a pragmatic, globally oriented liberal-arts education for a life of professional success, public service and thoughtful intentionality.
There is, however, still work remaining to define a college appropriate for the global economic challenges and responsibilities of the 21st century.
Under Bill’s leadership in the years ahead, Dickinson will be able to:
Adapting the good words of Dr. Benjamin Rush—you just knew that any commentary about Bill had to conclude with a reference to the words of Dr. Rush—the first phase of the assent of our college may be coming to a close, “but the revolution is far from over!”
Sincerely,
Jennifer Ward Reynolds ’77
Chair
Board of Trustees
Congratulations Bill and congratulations Dickinson - you've both made wise choices.
The Release
March 10, 2010
To the Dickinson Community:
It is with great pleasure that I write to inform you that President Durden, who will complete 11 years of service this June, has agreed to remain as Dickinson College’s president for the foreseeable future. Since Bill became president in 1999, the college has experienced unprecedented progress on virtually every front. During the past decade, Dickinson has developed a distinctive identity and purpose rooted in the vision of our founder, Dr. Benjamin Rush, and fueled by a compelling contemporary narrative that emphasizes the college’s “useful,” pragmatic approach to a liberal-arts education—a liberal-arts education with intentionality.
When Bill and I discussed the possibility of his remaining as president, he expressed his determination to solidify at the college a culture of institutional transformation and high accomplishment. Where others might see less room for opportunity in these most challenging financial times, Bill sees entrepreneurial possibilities for which Dickinson is distinctively poised. It is precisely this challenge as well as the college’s distinctive mission that inspire Bill’s leadership.
In addition, while the current capital campaign is scheduled to reach its successful conclusion in 2011, we are already envisioning the opportunities that lie beyond through a comprehensive strategic-planning effort that the college community will be given the opportunity to participate in later this year.
The progress the college has made has convinced us all that we will succeed in our quest to be uniquely Dickinson and fulfill the bold mandate for democracy and education which our founder proposed at our chartering in September 1783. As Bill has reminded us so often, Dr. Rush’s vision was never fully embraced at the college or throughout the nation. Today, however, Dickinson is positioned for even more substantive accomplishment by doing what it does best—educating students through a pragmatic, globally oriented liberal-arts education for a life of professional success, public service and thoughtful intentionality.
There is, however, still work remaining to define a college appropriate for the global economic challenges and responsibilities of the 21st century.
Under Bill’s leadership in the years ahead, Dickinson will be able to:
- maintain the excellence of our faculty
- build upon the effective business-like practices that characterize the current administration
- enhance the support and recognition of our loyal alumni to this college “on the move”
- increase our endowment and other financial resources that are absolutely necessary to achieve our goals
- work with a highly talented team to suggest a model of higher education that is affordable and accessible
- and most important, attract students whose achievements will reflect the excellence and distinctiveness of a Dickinson liberal-arts education.
On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I congratulate Bill for his achievements thus far and applaud both Bill and Elke’s reaffirmation of their incredible commitment to Dickinson College. I ask that you join me in pledging to work with him and his team over the next several years to realize our highest aspirations for our college.
Dickinson College, PO Box 1773, Carlisle, PA 17013, 717-243-5121
Monday
Dickinson College - Dickinson Again Surpasses 5,000 Applications
I don't know about you, but it makes me proud that my alma mater is coveted by so many prospective students. A tip of the hat to those who have helped create this demand. Keep up the good work!
Learn more by clicking this link:
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Saturday
Glad They Didn't Ask Me......
...this "way back when"..... :)
Can You Answer These 13 College Interview Questions?
By Lynn O'Shaughnessy
Feb 25, 2010
When the admission director at Dickinson College was interviewing my daughter four years ago, he tossed her this zinger: What is the most creative thought you’ve ever had?
Caitlin blanked out, but she knew she needed to respond. She blurted out something like this: “I want to learn how to eat with chop sticks left handed because it will impress colleges.”
Was that a crazy answer? Absolutely. The interviewer, however, was apparently so interested in my daughter’s enthusiastic response and her endless supply of stories that her 30-minute interview lasted more than an hour. She ultimately ended up with a Dickinson acceptance letter.
read more at: http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/blog/college-solution/can-you-answer-these-13-college-interview-questions/1584/
Can You Answer These 13 College Interview Questions?
By Lynn O'Shaughnessy
Feb 25, 2010
When the admission director at Dickinson College was interviewing my daughter four years ago, he tossed her this zinger: What is the most creative thought you’ve ever had?
Caitlin blanked out, but she knew she needed to respond. She blurted out something like this: “I want to learn how to eat with chop sticks left handed because it will impress colleges.”
Was that a crazy answer? Absolutely. The interviewer, however, was apparently so interested in my daughter’s enthusiastic response and her endless supply of stories that her 30-minute interview lasted more than an hour. She ultimately ended up with a Dickinson acceptance letter.
read more at: http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/blog/college-solution/can-you-answer-these-13-college-interview-questions/1584/
Friday
Denny Hall on ebay
Dickinson College is everywhere......even on ebay......
still time to bid - no - it's not my posting......
http://cgi.ebay.com/DENNY-HALL-Real-Photo-PC-Carlisle-PA-Dickinson-College_W0QQitemZ310202501810QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20100224?IMSfp=TL100224135005r27437
still time to bid - no - it's not my posting......
http://cgi.ebay.com/DENNY-HALL-Real-Photo-PC-Carlisle-PA-Dickinson-College_W0QQitemZ310202501810QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20100224?IMSfp=TL100224135005r27437
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