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Day 4 (MDC Work Day)

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Today we started our morning with our daily meeting where we discussed what we were going to do during the day. Since our group did not have an outing today, we were given time to do some research for our case studies, read and answer some short readings, and finish our chapters in the book The Gatekeepers.  
For our case studies we were all given a college that we had to research and present. We were given a piece of paper with a few questions that we can consider or go off of for our presentations. This came in handy for those who haven't gone to their college yet because it gave us ideas on what is actually important to know about a college. We then did a reading with our group ad were given some questions that we had to answer and discuss once we were finished.
After our discussion we had a break for lunch but before lunch we had to finish a sort of rough draft outline for our case studies. After lunch we had some time to read a prepare for our seminar on the book called The Gatekeepers. During our seminar we go over some questions that we all have on the reading and discuss different perspectives or sides of what we think is happening.    

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