lesscollegestress
- Nov 30, 2020
Denial, Deferral, Anything but Rejection
I post a version of this every year because the language we use impacts our emotions as well as our actions. While I've always believed that, the idea really resonated with me a few years ago. A teacher in my Spinning continuing education course said, "Never tell students to raise their 'tension! Say 'Turn up your resistance' instead." We all laughed and got her message. Why would I want to add tension to someone's workout when they were already increasing the workload to th
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lesscollegestress
- Nov 23, 2020
Happy Thanksgiving! Just Keep College Out of It
In this stranger than strange year with its own unique brand of stress, the stress of waiting to hear from colleges is only exacerbated for our seniors. Please be mindful of conversations you have with your smaller gatherings or at a Zoom Thanksgiving. I post this on my Less College Stress Consulting Facebook page each year. It's great advice. As I congratulate my students who contact me with news of acceptances, I share their happiness (even if the college is not a top choic
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lesscollegestress
- Nov 23, 2020
Professional Tutor Recommendations (Among Other Benefits)
Belonging to four professional organizations carries benefits I am always glad to extend to my students and families. Want to talk to a current student at a college that isn’t offering tours at the moment? No problem--even if I haven’t had a student attend that school in 6 or 7 years, someone in my network has and will happily contact that student to let them know you’ll be in touch. Parents: want to connect with a parent of a student? Done. Is there a new accelerated Master’
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Pamela Kwartler, Certified Educational Planner
- Nov 16, 2020
Churchill on 'Brevity' Before Writing
"...the discipline of setting out the real points concisely will prove an aid to clearer thinking," Churchill advises. I recently read Erik Larson’s “The Splendid and the Vile,” which focuses on how Winston Churchill managed the stress of keeping people calm and carrying on throughout the Battle of Britain while trying to convince FDR that only U.S. support could defeat Hitler. The last thing Americans wanted was another foreign war. On August 9, 1940, with the Battle of Brit
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Pamela Kwartler, M.A.
- Nov 9, 2020
Considering Pepperdine?
Ranked the second-most beautiful Christian university by christianuniversitiesonline.org, with an idyllic ocean-front campus and impressive art museum and dorms to match. There's great merit aid available, but students earn it by taking a rigorous core curriculum; business, advertising/public relations, psychology, biology, and music are consistently strong programs. Division I Men's Baseball, Volleyball, and Water Polo plus Women's Tennis are consistent winners: ideal weathe
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