Taste of College 2019

January 10, 2019        Hello readers, today was SUCH a fun day, and a very informative day too. We started our day fresh and early by visiting the Houston Hillel, which is a non-profit organization that works towards helping undergraduate college students as well as graduate college students, specifically Jewish students. Houston Hillel specifically works with students from Rice University and University of Houston. This non-profit coordinates things from student charities to hosting Shabbat every Friday. For them it's very important to make the students that work with them like they have a support system and like they can rely on Houston Hillel for whatever they want. They also organize the trip which is called birth-right, which allows people of Jewish descent to have a free 10 day trip to Israel. It was very nice to see that even when we go to college, there are people out there who want us to succeed and will help us in any way that they can. At the end of our...

January 9, 2018 Today our J-term group visited Galveston Community College. I went in to the visit with the idea that I didn’t really have to learn anything from GCC, and why would I want to come to a community college. I was completely wrong, and I can speak for the whole group when I say we were all pleasantly surprised. GCC is in the heart of Galveston, and is a great option for people who either aren’t ready for a full 4 year college experience, or are going to transfer their credits for common core classes, it is also a very affordable way for people to get an education. This community college offers great programs such as nursing classes, culinary classes and applied sciences. They have great facilities and have one of the nicest-looking pottery classes i’ve ever seen (view of the ocean). I’m really glad we got to see a different perspective of institutions, and how a typical college might not be the right investment for everyone. The people who gave us the tour emphasi...

Hello! And welcome to our 2019 J Term blog. This first blog entry was written collaboratively by the entire class to share with our parents, in order to give a broad picture of the structure and expectations of this course. In this J-Term we will be doing several things to further our knowledge about the complicated thing we call "college". This course offers things such as college visits to different types of institutions. We will be visiting colleges such as Rice University, and Southwestern University. We will be doing case studies in order to learn more about certain institutions and see what type of college fits us best. Through our college research, we will learn how to look at colleges and not just look for “flashy colleges.” As we mentioned, during the course we will all be working on a case study project. For this project are paired with another student in the course to research in-depth one of the colleges we are going to visit. In the end we will all be present...