Silly Phrases

Returning Students: Schedule your end of year meeting with me in Scholar, now please.

Ok, the one phrase I never understood was “were you born in a barn” and how that relates to leaving the door open or leaving chairs untucked (I get the mess reference).  I didn’t work the farm, but my family lived on a farm for several years when I was a child. During that time I explored & got to know farm life every well. The one thing you never do in a barn is leave the door open or un-tuck something.  Cows have no (and I mean NO) sense to them; they will wonder where ever they can & shouldn’t be. The reason my parents have a Christmas tree farm instead of a cow farm … trees don’t wonder!

Anyway, I’ve come to accept this phrase the way people use it. With that in mind I have to ask; were you born in a barn?  No.  Then push in your chairs when you leave a table & clean up after yourself.

☺Please & Thank you.  

It shows respect for your environment, the people you are with and yourself.

Senior Reminders

1. Ask your parents to respond to the Graduation Reception Invitation
2. If you haven't done so, you should schedule your Exit Interview with Dr. Clark now

 Important Dates

• Saturday, April 20: Web Drop/Add for fall 2013 begins
• Friday, May 3: Last day to apply for W grade
• Wednesday, May 8: Last day of classes
• Friday, May 17: Web Drop/Add for fall 2013 closes
• Tuesday, May 28: Summer I classes begin

Helpful Tools

After these last 8 days of classes are you going to cram for exams?  You and I both know that cramming doesn’t work neither does staying up all night.  Instead of employing those bad techniques try to begin studying as soon as possible, a little at a time.  Staying up all night will deprive your brain of long term memory … something you need for a test.

Look here for 10 traps of studying that can & may have already gotten you into trouble. http://www.collegeatlas.org/traps-of-studying.html.

Random 

Made up of approximately 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) neurons and 1,000,000,000,000,000 (1 quadrillion) synapses the human brain weighs about 3 pounds.

Ut Prosim

Usually, I share ways for you to sever. But today I want to give a bit of gratitude to those that serve us. One Tuesday, 4 Blackhawks (& obviously their crew members) visited VT to spend time with VTCC.  This is a link to some of the pictures that were taken during their visit.

http://imgur.com/a/NFuMS

Thank you for your service.

Sandbox

My Schedule 

In Scholar under the MSE Undergraduate Advising Tab use the sign-in tool to select a meeting time. Please know it will be necessary to click on “expand all recurring meetings” to see all available dates, then click on the date you would like to schedule a meeting and the available times will show. Currently, meeting times are available through May 8.