Tips to prevent Senioritis. Never wait by the mailbox for admission decisions!

You’ve worked difficult, you have applied to college, and maybe you’ve already received some college acceptance letters. Congratulations! Because exciting as it may to life after high school, now is not the time for you slack down.

Sure, it’s semester that is second summer may feel it’s right around the part. But even if you had a stellar autumn semester academically, the school you wind up attending will review your spring grades also when you’ve been admitted. If your grades decline from the time you were admitted, there is a opportunity that your admission could be rescinded. And no one wants to cope with that.

Here are tips on how best to avoid senioritis:

Do enjoy yourself! You’re just a school that is high as soon as. Locate a balance between hanging away with friends, going to high school events, and buckling right down to study for AP exams classes.

Do not let your grades slip. You’ve worked hard for far too long to stop caring and start slacking. Colleges will take notice of a downward trend in grades.

Do keep your eyes on the reward: university. You realize that saying that college will be the best years of your life? Imagine how far more you’ll enjoy it knowing that you worked difficult in highschool to obtain what your location is as a university student.

Don’t let others peer pressure you into not caring about your classes. Maybe some of one’s classmates have already been admitted towards the college of these aspirations and believe that now is a time that is great celebrate and relax. As I mentioned earlier in the day, universities will examine your final school that is high, that may affect your offer of admission.

Do remain positive! This might be a time that is stressful waiting to get admission decisions, wanting to decide where you can spend the following four several years of your life are not simple things to handle. Focus on your academics and involvements and spend time with family and friends rather than driving yourself crazy waiting by the computer or mailbox for college admission decisions.

It’s likely that you ‘re going to possess some fantastic college choices. Celebrate your victories. Continue to work hard. And above all? Have a breath that is deep. Your senior 12 months is what you make of it.

A Valentine’s Day Tale of Two Trojans

Valentine’s Day is upon us, and what better method to celebrate than by sharing a love story that is near and dear to our hearts.

It had been Fall of 1986, and our esteemed Director of Admission, Kirk Brennan, was just a mere freshman studying Cinema at USC. Kirk lived on the ‘Cinema Interest’ floor associated with the dorm, mostly inhabited by other movie guys and only a few girls (in those times, the School of Cinematic Arts possessed a male shmoop.pro majority). Certainly one of those girls ended up being Julie- or ‘Bubbles’ as her friends affectionately called her because of her big, bubbly personality.

Kirk and Julie had one class together at USC- a Geography program. Kirk says certainly one of his favorite memories at USC involved this course: He stayed up so late working on his ‘480’ film project which he slept through the due date of the big Geography lab! He begged the TA to accept his belated homework and to his relief, she complied. Thankfully, Julie never heard about Kirk’s tardiness!

One time, Kirk and his friends decided it could be fun to have a party that is screening and fortunately for them, Julie offered to host the party at her Dad’s house in Santa Monica. Julie, a cook that is excellent whipped up some fried chicken for the hungry teens, and based on Kirk, that’s as he knew he previously to ask her down: ‘When I saw her cooking that chicken, I thought she was pretty sweet!’

A couple weeks later, on September 19th, 1986, Kirk invited Julie to a fraternity rush party, which will turned out to be known as their very first date. One date is all it took- Kirk and Julie ‘decided to get together’ after that and six years later, Kirk got down on one knee and asked Julie to be his wife night.

And now for the proposal…

When Kirk’s friend told him that he ended up being moving and wanted to have a goodbye party, Kirk saw a way to ask friends and household over and pop the question ‘under the guise of a house cooling party.’ Kirk rented a camera that is video Blockbuster (apparently you could do that in the nineties) to ensure the day would live in perpetuity. Too bad the Trojan Marching Band had beenn’t there to serenade!

Kirk asked Julie to marry him, and in June, they are going to commemorate 2 full decades of marriage. As Kirk states, ‘marriage ain’t easy, but it is beneficial!’

Day from the Trojan Family to yours, Happy Valentine’s!