The Career Center and Integrated Advising at Sewanee

Hi everyone, welcome to the Swanee session tonight. This is Taylor Baird in the office of admissions. So I'm clearly off Camera been chatting with you a little bit and I'm here with Tim Neil. Another counselor hi there. Yes, everyone so you'll hear our voices throughout the evening kind of moderating the chat so don't be alarmed were off screen. But you'll see our names in the chat as well, and you guys have been introducing yourself, which is awesome, so throughout the night. If you have questions. We're going to be covering the Career Center an integrated advising at.

Honey, if you have questions that come up that you didn't think of before hand. We have a couple of those that you submitted when he registered on hand. But if something comes to your mind your you know your thoughts get rolling. Then you can put that in the chat box and we will be moderating those and putting your comments up throughout and kicking those questions to our guests tonight. So I'm going to hand it over to Kim Heitzenrater to introduce yourself.

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I am the director of the center is funny and I'm also graduated slowly and prosecutor animal so appeared at the senior who is graduating in May and then.

At another small private liberal arts college.

Hi everyone, I am Julia not forward. This is my 5th year at Swanee Yeah. I teach in French and French studies and this year. I am Co directing the office of advising and this summer. I'm also directing somewhere registration. And so I'd like to talk to you, a little bit about my job here. what I do, especially about you know, advising you know what is it models integrated advising Max money as well and then I'd like to talk to you about our one foot visors.

People I love working with and then talked about the registration process for this summer. So when we think of integrated advising I think it'll be 3 separate things that are interconnected, though, so there is the academic advising peace. There is a career advising or career readiness. If you like and also let's say.

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When we speak about academic advising we think mostly about maybe transactional self, getting advising pin finding out about deadlines. How could drop a force out of wars how to change. Maybe your language placement. For example, if your place into I don't know Spanish any gravitate Chinese or maybe Russian or Italian or Arabic. Then you know you want to find out how to do that. And so your advisor will walk you through that process OK now there also.

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Would also help you to explore? Maybe different career options. Not let your advisor will tell you which job you get or what you know jobs apply for but help you understand how you're developing life and career competencies through the course you're taking and figure poker regular an extra activities. So we're not just about you know career path. You know just wanted. But what skills are you building in your language classes in your math classes in your side classes.

And then the third piece has to do with best membership piece. I'm going to talk about you know, having discussions informal discussions with goodbyes about you know, maybe different success. Habits things that you should be doing. You know frequently. Maybe happy should avoid perhaps but maybe the coping scaled study skills. How to maybe your schedule and so we want advisors to or you should feel free virus about anything.

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So at the end of this we want to feel as if you're supported in every aspect of your life. It's one that you have someone in your Phone or at least you know you have several people. Of course, but at least one person.

Want to see you.

You're so beautiful for years of college.

And this is where I get to talk about these people. These advisors and I'll take my story quickly. I came to Swanee in 2014 in March. So I mean, springtime in March and you know this, this campus is beautiful as you know.

Flowers are blooming and I just remembered meeting some wonderful people in our faculty and staff members were just so welcoming and so open and so you know supportive and those people sold me on slowly so I'm here because of the interactions. I may do these people. Yeah, and so your advisors will be selected from it. These people acting stuff.

And so you should expect to have a tool advisors at pre major advisor. Yeah, that personal walk you through your first three semesters, now, so don't be surprised at this person.

Nothing about you don't really think you're interested in maybe you know you want to do finance and you happen to have you know a pre measured by the rules in English. You know that's completely fine. You should trust that as advisor is equipped with all the information. He needs to walk. You successfully through the first three semesters, especially as you explore different parts of campus and you fulfill your general education curriculum, so that would be fine to have an advisor premade advisor that's not within your.

Natural discipline some of you may not have a discipline as yet, you may just want to explore the private campus at perfectly straight now in your 4th semester, not in your 4th year in your 4th semester, so you're a sophomore spring term spring semester office on Europe. You will choose your major yeah, and you will declare your major and they also choose your major advisor now our software is just that last week and we had a party with lots of cake.

For them to celebrate now.

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And then you also choose your major advisor and so that person would normally be a faculty member within the academic Department that you're choosing to be a major and so that person will then walk you through the rest of your career and bring it towards regulation, so expect to have 2 advisors pretty major advisor and then I made.

No, I want to talk a little bit about the course selection process. That's happening this summer and now maybe you already very interested in the course that you can take so the way we work is that we can divide summer into 3 parts beginning part middle part and then part then this fall.

So, in the beginning part you know, we should expect to get an email from myself. Yes, to tell you that you are poor selection form is ready, and you go ahead and you will send us a lot of information about your interests. Maybe tell us if you're an athlete.

Your training schedule, he tells about your age courses courses. You could take it a level courses. For example, you know that then you tell us about maybe watch foreign language. You want to take tell us about the things you're interested in your concerned about you know what do you really think you'll struggle with but you know what you passionate about?

This this is some information and then an academic guy die. Faculty member will get that information and will read all that you are? What you said, and select 4 courses that in their professional.

Opinion would be the best combination of courses for universe semester. And so you know, we have a long sheet like this, you can see this.

Have information here and be feeling the full courses here, yeah.

Make sure that you don't have all ATM classes unless you tell us I really, really want to have only which no one says.

But we turn out to have you like you know have a class at 8 and then nothing until maybe 4. You know so we think about your your daily routine that would make sense for you as a person.

So I'm gonna make diet or do they work in the middle of awesome, yeah, and then towards the end of summer, they will choose your advisor based on maybe different interests that you have with your advisors want apps events were in their forces, so if you haven't keeping up words.

Yeah, and then after that, you get a message from your advisor. This is what end of summer.

Say Hey, I'm going by there and looking forward to meeting you.

And so now I'm just looking at the beginning of fall end of summer still arriving campus for orientation and do that first week. You'll have time to say goodbye to her and talk about your schedule if you want to change it.

Adjust your schedule your advisor walking through that process. So you get ample time to ask questions and you know, maybe figure out you know things you like and don't like about your statements don't think that you're being.

Force it into a sort of course, or not, and just you know during the summer. The academic diet would be in touch with you for example, if you send your form that you really, really love psychology, but you haven't listed in psychology courses were asking well. Hey so we see here that you really want to major in Psychology Psychology Falcons. You haven't given us at course in psychology, and you may have a reason for that you may prefer to maybe start.

Call G in your second year and that's fine, but will have different ways of interacting with you and the office of.

Missionally aid will also be able to communicate with you and with us.

Be forced into any.

So that's pretty much what I see. Now about this process, but if you have questions. I could answer right now.

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See I know the question that we had was from Anslee hope I'm pronouncing it correctly beforehand was it seemed pretty general of advising experiences. So I think you went through a lot of that Julianne Uhm. We haven't gotten any so another encouragement to, if you have questions and a lot of this might be new and so we definitely knowledge that you might not even know what questions you have right now. We're what questions to ask so again can't think through that if it pops into your mind we can always circle back.

Mention how would you have a mission statement on our goals on our website so as possible, you know this is the website for integrated advising at 20 and you'll see your mission statement.

He wonderful so I guess camel kick it to you and then again, at questions come up well well address them.

So I want to share some information about this money Career Center and the ways that we work with students every day and over the course of it for years and even into the early years of their careers. So you'll see on the screen. I hope the photo of our staff. We have a staff of 6 and then you'll see on the other half of the screen.

But we are really focused on so that is helping you figure out purpose, helping you navigate the path that you want to explore and then preparing you making sure that you are prepared to succeed and thrive in what you want to try what you wanna do.

So throughout the four years that you are sweating students and we work closely together on this and I've heard mentions.

Covenant keeping skills will be talked about Advisors.

Same play so we are very interested in making sure that you think you're after your experience. How can you develop the career readiness in the competences that you're going to need as you navigate your first job or your graduate or professional school after Swanee.

So you'll see, those on the screen, but employers tell survey people who ask them via survey frequently. These are the things have been looking for in the employee said problem solving skills communication skills. The ability to work in a team and analytical quantitative skills initiative and work ethic and leadership and so.

You are well positioned as Aswani student to develop every single one of these no matter which major in but it just helps to begin with the end in mind, and to think about using all four of your years and offer your summers to develop all of these skills so that you're ready to launch when you reach your senior year.

So I'll go into a little bit about how our students work with the career team, so we are fortunate to be staffed in a way that allows us to provide individualized attention and there are students who come in and meet with us beginning their very first semester and then they meet with us all 4 years and then there are also people who after they graduate will reach out to us and ask us to look over resume when they apply for their second job.

Or when they apply for WordPress with professional school after they graduated college or they're reading from their first city to their second city so we're here for them throughout throughout this years.

And also working working with us you have access to the creators and opportunities for jobs and internships and access to this money network so every single tag in our office. We teach students how to access the Swanee Network and I would say at least every week. There are some students who are reaching out to members of the swimmingly for career guidance and advice for help getting.

Put the door getting dinner.

I'm happy for you, that learning you know what it is about that organization, culture that they need to know.

Students.

Love to reach out to someone he loves and they also love and value seeing that help provide them.

So also, if you're out the year in working with our team, we sponsor or cosponsor multiple career fixed events all year long and so we launch soon after the academic year begins and then we go through the end of April with events and so those can be everything. Here are some examples, so an alarm is on campus and this is going to happen actually next week so.

Analog, who graduating class of 95.

The corporate communications with Goldman Sachs in New York and he was going to be in the area of business and reached out to us to say, I can spend the day like? What would you have me do so.

You're going to have a networking luncheon so students are going to be able to meet with him here, but his career get his advice on their career and.

Just have some time with a professional right here.

So you know it ranges everything from that to planned events that we have. We have an event in fall that we partner with the basket Center for global colors on for careers in banking consulting admin in the fall. We also partner with office.

Health and medical advising the health medical programs an in sponsored event that brings the ones back to campus for students interested in all range of.

Health careers in medical careers. We had our largest event of the year in January for teens and seniors called beyond the gates that is also staffed by loves and we're going to launch in the fall and event just for 1st and 2nd year. Students that will bring along that campus to help them think about shaping there for years and their summers and then networking connected with.

First semester.

And we also provide a really supported team that is prepared to coach to succeed and we know that what you need throughout your 4 years is going to change you may come in.

Thinking that you might be interested in one area and then you might take a course that completely changes. Your mind or having experienced. It changes your mind and makes you think you'd like to explore different path. So we can help you navigate that transition and change or you may come in knowing that you don't know what it feels like the right career area and we can help you determine that and figure that out, we help you prepare whether you are submitting documents to apply for something or preparing for your first interview or even 3rd interview. But it's really important to you.

Um and again networking, he said whatever it is that you need to add it. We're there could she threw.

So I'm bigger now just to point out some of the opportunities and outcomes that our students have available to them and they achieve so you probably are aware of the Swanee pledge, but that you know guarantees that you will graduate in 4 years with your academic advisor will have a role in helping you with that. It also guarantees portability of a study abroad and then the part that our office is most focused on is the funding that's guaranteed for an internship for research opportunity should you need it.

And I will point out that 97% of our students engaged with our office by the time they graduate so being in and out of our office and knowing who are staff members are is part of the culture like this is the waistline students operate and so we see that.

Dance and you know they like just today. I left one meeting was walking through building and ran into a senior who said, You know guess? Why remember that job, I told you that I got it and I found it on handshake, which is our platform and I got the offer today, so you know, we're there.

Conversation she said, I want to come in and talk with you about it. Before I decide if I'm going to accept the offer or not, and just talk that through so you know, we're we're around on campus and so we see students out where they are, and they come see us where we are. This is just very much a natural part of experience.

And then by the time our students graduate, maybe ironically, maybe not. Ironically, 97% of the by the time. We finished collecting the data on where they planted are either employed or graduated professional school usually in the program of their toys or in a fellowship or service opportunity of the monetary and we believe that the preparation that we help them have throughout their time here helps that she needs. This outcomes that they desire and then I'll just point out and limited humblebrag. Maybe not so humble I don't know.

But we're really excited this fall in August.

Dillard, the Princeton Review had named this number 19 on their list of Top 20 best career services offices and then just in February. This earlier this month, they had a second guy, but maybe best value or something for colleges and in that guy, they listed US #15 festival for internships and #20.

So all the things that I've been saying about connecting with the network to get really is true in our loans are an incredible resource for our students.

So this is the things that I wanted to make sure that we shared and so we can now turn to your questions and feel free to ask us questions about either area, or other things that CrossFit Cross. Both areas that we might know about we can share information with.

Wonderful so I know Maya had asked a man you kind of mentioned it at the same time do we use an on line platform to search for internships so timbs linked handshake. But if you want to maybe expand on that, so we just.

It's a pretty new platform. I think the company is only 5 years old and they do have an open platform. Now that made him check open to all students across the country. Even if they do not attend a partner school. But we are a partner school and so I would say dozens of employers daily reach out to us to connect and then to post.

Dozens and dozens of jobs and that they want to offer to our students and it's a really easy platform to navigate you can put the app on your phone. And so you can see in the algorithm works like the more information you get it in the algorithm will send you openings and opportunities and so students can use it to find and apply for jobs and internships. They can see all the events that we offer but also employers will.

Push events to us for us to forward to our students instead.

You know there are nation internationally known will household name. Employers even will offer say online. Info sessions for our students can log into in a tendon connect with employer virtually even if they don't come to our campus.

So interested to jobs and then and then the third thing is it's funny. Students can make an appointment with a number of our team, and they can do that just via the app or their desktop and our students have been really happy that we switch taken shake and it really appreciated it as soon. I met with today is a sophomore.

And she said to me, you know, usually you don't like your email getting blown up with things and you don't want to have anything but today.

Mail saying here's your intertech opportunity. You might like and she said. Every single one of them was spot on with something that she is going to apply so it's kind of.

Yeah, I was gonna say my impression of just hearing students talk about it is. It seems kind of like a nice intro into how to look for and make those connections. It kind of takes a little bit scary pressure off I've had a navigate that.

In August when you get it.

And she will give you some homework to do for your I'm actually at MoD Pizza.

On homework, I guess is free to sign up for handshake and also work engage and ages over online.

Maybe find.

All the things you know different clubs over at meetings, so check your email in August from advisor and it.

Add that we really have raked up just in the past year, alot of things that were offering via technology, so few other things off .2.

And the market is a platform that we are an early adopter of among liberal arts colleges. It started in the Business School environment in his now navigated to the collegiate environment. And so be mark allows you to upload a PDF of your resume in. In 30 seconds using AI. It gives you actual feedback to strengthen and tailor your resume so students have really loved what they've gotten from another platform.

Students are enjoying using is.

Public interview that allows you to practice your interview skills.

Questions it gives you a limited time to respond and say you really can get used to that pace and slow answering any questions.

I'm trying to think of the other things that we've added. Oh, we're launching a new platform for sweating gateway, which is a way that students can and then alarms to loans that students could connect with alumni and so they can look and find it kind of be matched again using an algorithm like they can search but they can also be matched with alarms who are willing to talk with a student and it will point out to those alarms are an initial weighted schedule. The call through the platform have the call either via.

No video or Phone through the platform so it really just it's gonna be so great once you will be launched by the end of this academic year so for sure by the time you get student here. It will be available. That's our son. So we have a question from Emma. She has asked could you describe past internships that seems happen just like a lot. I know Tim is going to share a resource?

Yeah, I would point you to our website because there are frankly just too many. There are so many there's a hardware without again, but I will tell you.

A feature of them so how about that. I'll compromise in that way. So what temple link is to our website and there are a couple of things I point out one? Is there's a document that lists all of the internships that are swimming. Students did last summer and so you'll be able to see that we awarded on that document over 618 thousand dollars in funding. Our students went to remembering the numbers correctly 15 countries. In 21 states to do this internships and they covered a wide range of fields.

So you'll see on that list that name ace at the end of some of the names and those indicate internships that are offered by a lone parent or friend just for a 20 student there holding a spot and some of those are paid in those have an asterisk and others are unpaid. But every student listed on that sheet received funding from Saloni.

That's one thing I would point out, but then if you want to go deeper and learn will work. I hope maybe 2 could also post the link to this internship reports and so we have been going back for years and students who receive funding have to write a reflective report at the end of the summer and it's just a two page report. But it they answer questions and so, if you see something on the list. And think wonder what that was about what they do you can read their report and see if I have them at their internship but the thing that I will say the hallmark of the.

At least that are offered through our office and pasted on handshake is that the alones really value. Having a student they are. They look forward to having this one student in their organization or company every single year office and so the mentorship that happens between the alarm and student is great and just helps connect students to swimming at work and we make sure.

It is.

The internships are substantive like you're getting.

A real world experience you're not just making coffee copies and we're not going to pay you for that. So we want you to have a real experience is going to help you grow and help you build skills and help prepare you for what comes next.

Said one of my favorite stories that anybody who's met me and talk about internships is probably hard is that there's a Swanee now graduate who's not practicing law. Martha and she waited for a little while to law school. But once she did, she knocked it out of park and she got down to choosing between going to Harvard and Yale to jail and she turned in her first briefer paper or whatever. They call it in law school and the faculty member responded.

I have no comments to make have you done this before and she turned around and read her internship sponsor from Swanee and said thanks to you. I had done this before, and they are in such close contact that he then of course, we're probably let us know that.

I'm not from her so that's just the kind of experience in our students path so here's a little bit about it. Yeah, I think that kind of anecdote is a perfect example of To me when I think about Swanee internships, especially the ace internships. It's not just the work you're doing 9 to 5. It's like you said the mentorship of where should I live in the city or what do I do after 5:00 PM like? How do I network 'cause I think that's something we don't always connect at 17 years old of what is that going to look like?

We're piloting this summer in Nashville and now that I sent you all I have to make it as we're piloting the summer of that or network and so we're going to recruit her of her of alumni someone who graduated younger than 15 years ago with someone who graduated older than 15 years ago.

For a cohort of students to provide mentorship throughout the summer and then we hope to add a second wave.

In August or September? Where are graduates who moved to Nashville and had throughout the year just a nice touch point of mentorship throughout their first year graduate from Swanee and there's also a new semester in New York study away program. It's going to involve an internship and I want to replicate the mentor network model there too.

So I'm gonna pull a question from the topics that were.

Um given to us during registration, so I actually think this is Emma again. But this might be a shorter answer. It's which academic year. Demo students have internships and so the links probably help with that, but so if you look at that list you will see that.

Are internships is rising seniors and then the next large percentage would be a rising juniors. But we figured out that last year 2722. Twenty Seven 1125 first year students did internships during their first summer.

And so there are some students who will do internships already summers. There other students who will be internships. Only their final somewhere and there are some people do it for their final 2 summers.

But that sort of work. It backwards that way. We really hope that final summer that you are doing something that is group focused so that when you come back to school senior here. You are ready to go. You know exactly what you want to apply for you know what you want to pursue and you are ready to use that appear to be ready to launch successfully after graduation. Whether that's a job or a graduate or professional school.

So I mean?

Students will probably go broad in their fall semester in junior year back in time to start internships.

So yeah, that's a very busy year.

Yeah, so drilling will kick it to you for a couple of questions. So Natasha was wondering does your advisor help you with your life. It's funny in general or are they specifically helping kind of support your academic career.

And yes, you know.

We're not discussing with industry.

And it's true that most advisors want to be seen as vendors as well. Yes, so there's this professional piece nowhere in the office. You were assigned to lend visor that personally know needs to sign papers themselves, but that person can also and also wants to hear about other things are happening outside of class so if you know.

You find it difficult to maybe yeah, you know concentrate or there's something happening.

Cortana with your roommate for example, you know you can tell your advice about that and you guys will have the resources on hand to help you only tell you well with whom you should speak to your problem, so there's only just separate the advisor from event or both can be found in the same person and it's true that you could have several managers on campus. Pyramid tours are great just maybe by happenstance Finder people in Kansas.

You know just really get along with and you wanted to be a mentor. You know that's fine and that person laser. So yes, I will tell you do not think of your advisor as someone who cannot be mentored.

Countries that person is there any corner careful with many, many things just today actually one of my colleagues send a message to one of his advisers say. Hey, I know that you're having a hard time concentrating you know are just finding enough time to work. I'll be in my office working from 1:00 to 5:00. Today come sit in my office. So we could work together. You know, I think that's and that's what you find your money?

Those interactions that or I don't know very, very important, and very impactful I would say.

That's wonderful, yeah, I think we oftentimes think of just like your academic professor. You want to talk about a class but to have just said general conversation about your pathway, so Maya has a question kind of back to the form where your listing classes.

So I hope I do this question justice so from the list of the four courses chosen by faculty. That's kind of what you come in with. She was asking you to confirm those during your first meeting like do you walk through those so I think when you?

So when there are available, so they can see online courses that were chosen for them and they can decide at that point, OK, you know like 3 of them before.

And there's a special time in the 1st week of Easter and orientation for course adjustments, yeah, so I think it's in the last year was Tuesday at 7:30 PM to jump in and give you advising Pentagon change reports and swap force out or maybe add something up something. So yes, you have the final say. In all of this, I would say as a student you're in charge of your.

Poor schedule, I would say, and your experiences here, you can watch it on that and so you have all the agency in the world to manipulate your schedule and work for you with your advisor will make sure you're reflecting on anything.

Yes, it just due to dive you ever subjected to make sure that you're not overlooking something for example, and then I'm going to use this opportunity to plug on for all of you who have gone through the application process.

You are you remember your applicant status page. You might be checking that regularly or you might not have logged in in a couple of days or weeks. But that will really transition. If you say, I'm coming to Swanee and you paid your deposit that really becomes more of an enrollment checklist and so a few of you have probably already seen some forms loading or again, you decide that Swannies home, you'll see a new form show up and that is where the academic inventory where you list. Those initial 12 will show up so definitely for deposited students you're coming to Swanee.

Watch for those and kind of get in the habit of reviewing that checklist.

So I this might be both but probably more directed to Cam. Silas is asking um, but to entry level jobs look like after graduation side on that probably comes up in advising of entry level. So I think tackling that broadly and then Silas was particularly winning about politics or the International Global Studies.

So much like my answer to the internship question. There are so many ways to answer this, so I will ask him to link to 2 different things. One is and they both turned you can get there at the perspective. Students link and then on that page and maybe can navigate it home. If you're in front of a laptop on that page. There are 2 things that I'd like to point out one is a link to a summary like to page PDF.

Of where the class of 2018 landed.

And so on that page you will see the industries that they went into by number and by percentage and then on the second page. You'll see a list of some of the employers. But there just are so many that we can't get them all on that page.

And so there's a second link on that page that goes to a Google sheet that is back to the Class 2010 and it's listed by major so if you're wondering well? What do people who major in politics? Do after they graduate complaining that data is all there, you can see if they went to work, where that was if they went to Graduate School, where they went to Graduate School and then if you're thinking about the international global studies major than you can find that whole section on that Google sheet and see where they went.

So that information is all out there thanks to navigating in linking yes and I'm gonna well had a similar question about sports management. So I'm going to point him in that direction as well so well. I'm going to put your question in here and that made me think him of just you know it's not Swanee specific but I think it's something we do well. But kind of built into the liberal arts that your major doesn't always equate career so that kind of is you know this whole conversation, especially with both of you that it can be.

Bye.

Think of it now, especially the.

The first two years meeting different people from different walks of life, having different discussions with different books. Different authors different instructors. And just really finding your passion as you find your place on your passion outside and I notice it's daunting, though, because I mean, there's some people to show up and they know exactly what they want to do and obviously.

We know anything about what they want to do I want to say that both people are in the right place you know, and

campus and eventually you know figure out where you feel most passionate enerji in yourself.

Time that you guys are is there to inhabit session with you while you're after every semester with his time to reflect goodbye as well.

People ask Mister would you take from last semester into this semester who you want to see again when you want to talk to again and usually the people want to see again. You know, usually there in one discipline or maybe you'll decide maybe a double major.

No so don't worry too much about not having.

In answer to the question what you want to major in.

I would love to.

Is the spot in your minds? Which is that these 4 years and 3. Summers are preparing you for the next 40 that you don't have to make a 40 year choice when you're 22.

The great thing, there are jobs that exist now that did not exist. When we graduated from college and there are jobs that are going to exist and develop in the economy.

That no one's even thought of yet and they won't have thought up when you graduate from college. So so you're going to be prepared to pin it and even change throughout your career that you don't have to have a 40 year plan on your terms here.

And even if you do right like it that's probably gonna shift.

And we just want you to help me make the first best choice and then based on that first best choice like you're gonna grow you're going to learn about yourself.

Opportunities will come because you're going to work hard and do the job anyway.

Kind of

the things are going to change and evolve that you're gonna be prepared to make those changes and put its throughout your career.

So this might be.

Related in some way I think as you trying to figure that out, so there are a couple of questions. I know Craig had one that he put uhm in registration about you know what are some suggestions for students who are still trying to figure it out so I think we've we've addressed that you're not in that alone. We hope that you're figuring out so developing career pathways. Or maybe like strings Finder streets quest identifying things that you might not even know is a strength for you? How can the cursor help with that.

One thing I would point out is that we are really.

I would say good at asking questions and listening and then helping you think through things that you might not have together like asking you what you're enjoying in class asking you what you're doing all this.

Figuring out

we have a nice range of questions to help you learn more about yourself and you know, there are theories out there. Anyone theory for chaos theory like just apply for a bunch of things see what happens and then see where that takes you. I mean that's one aspect. Another aspect is really good listen and think and reflect on what your values are what you want to explore and then try something that's related to that.

News about having 3 Summers is that you really can try different things. and I have seen students who came in Swanee Newey thought thought they knew exactly what they were going to pursue and then had internship in it, and came back. Speaking this senior year and said I don't know what I was thinking. That's horrible like that, so bad for me, I can't do it in like within a month.

Helps listened to what they said, and giving them ideas to explore and.

Figure out what he did Wanna pursue and then he got a job at it by January so.

That's not unusual.

And I would just I mean, so I went to Swanee and I think just even in that 5 year span or 10 years from when I came in as a student. I you know just echoing that's funny. As always adapting and and changing that process and using new resources that the advising process and the Career Center has grown since I'm a student so I think to know that you're coming into a school that it's going to be ever evolving. and I think having that conversation. We're not perfect, but you know, I think we're serving students and always adjusting is really awesome.

So we had one question that's kind of a hybrid. I think of you know, kind of getting more into the local community. So we have a question of how does Swanee connect with the local community in organizations so maybe into civic engagement? Can now he's if we can expand on that.

Well, we do have the longest colors, yeah, and so, if you're a part of their you know.

Existence actually is to you know be plugged into different projects often off the mountain and maybe colon or

and so as.

No summer died we have to make sure that you know this humans have enough time in your schedule like a good chunk of time to leave before you know.

Service projects and also just know you know within a classroom. I feel so different instructors. You know, do a good job of bringing their students out of the classroom with different service projects on the mountain. Oregon inviting people in from this from you know just the local area to talk about what it's like.

You are happening.

Maybe so they can get you.

The 10 maybe demanda linked to this office of civic engagement page, which if I already did, but I'll show all of these things.

Are all housed under the umbrella of the office of civic engagement and it is it? Is a powerhouse but it has so many opportunities for service in our kind of 3 County area, but then also provides opportunities for service in world off the mountain during breaks, but there are students who are engaged in the community every single day.

So there's some students who are concerned about food insecurity there. Others who want to look at children. There are others who want to work with.

You are older than 60.

Access to health care, I mean, it's amazing there other students. You help students who helped membership in file their tax returns. I mean, there are so many ways that students can get engaged and really.

Understand what's going on?

Truly.

Yeah, I think that's

you know that's why we call it study away like for one example instead of just study abroad because a lot of those opportunities are but our purpose is just that you're out of Swanee. So you're here. I think this is a really intentional community. But you're not supposed to live in a bubble for 4 years. You know, and so that can be 20 minutes away or it could be truly abroad and or in an internship experience so I think if you're opting in for a small liberal arts school. You know that you're not going to be isolated here, we don't want that to happen.

I think in 2 weeks.

What about Davis is going to Ecuador actually?

I'm not always going to Costa Rica.

So the voting their spring break, 2 service projects, which is really, really.

So we have about 8 minutes, so we're not in a huge rush. But I did want to plant the seed. I know Kim you. Guys have been doing a lot of like meet and greets and social media engagement. So I mean, maybe set it more broadly of what do you think for serious students can do to set themselves up for success and like engaging in that sense, it might that be an easy way. Yeah.

And.

Every day.

I'm sorry that's a basic, Yeah, but like go to class every day don't miss class like you gotta be there. Another thing it would take to set yourself up for success is take advantage of all the tools that you have so you mentioned engage in handshake.

You can learn about so many different things that are going on. On campus and there is something amazing coming every day.

Facebook chatter going on in like people who teach him work here to say there are so many things that we want to do to get support students with their night. You know just gotta be with our kids or whatever, so I can't wait to be retired for one day so I can go to all the things so like there is something amazing to do every day and so, if you were on engaged drop handshake. If you are reading your email. Then you will know about this opportunities and you'll have the chance. So I would say make something. Once a week to go to that you might not have thought you were interested in.

And see what she wondered.

Setting up for success tests.

It's something I actually heard from another currently.

Grainger on story pretty much you know you want me to be proactive about experiences that you have here you know, not maybe having them happen to you, or you know, having people tell you what how we should experience.

And part of that is, you know being engaged in your classes, yes, but also your classes.

Learning about different maybe different cultures different different world. Interacting with you know different speakers are brought here. Liberty Mills is you know, there are lots of things happening.

Did you see that so just maybe practice about that also?

Willing to support your comfort zone every now and then? Yeah.

So if you if you like me, you need a little moment. You just help recharge your battery and that's why I believe that every now and then you know.

See what's happening with the new part of campus, you know.

And Yeah, 6 for the moment and and know that all of the space is yours. No one will tell you that OK, you're only supposed to be over here over there or you know, usually this place is reserved for those people that all of this mountain is yours now and so for years explains everything and make the best of it and what I say to my wife. I say you know you probably never have the chance like this again.

On this wonderful mountain, with things like you know, mutual like Castle like buildings. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to make the best of it and then you walk your big cities and you know come back to visit but you know, yeah, this is a 4 years of investment so.

And I would add to that just to follow up on what she said that Rachel shoot just to be intentional.

You have agency and you are you are the author of your end for your story so be intentional, and the other thing I would say is.

Take advantage of the fact that I think Taylor image of this earlier that.

There are mentors everywhere and people who want to connect with the everywhere and will travel to get teary thinking about this. But you know, there if you visit campus. You'll see like now paintings on the walls of the Library of some of the people who work here today and who impacts 2 flights today and those include.

You know an assistant Dean and Danny who will wave to you, every time he sees you from mowing the grass you know so.

Anyway, they just there's a wide range of people who want to care for you and taking the time to reach out to them and to say can we have coffee or should I just come by your office. I want to chat and get to know you like that is the beauty of this community is there people all over campus who want to care for you.

Tell me get take like pick somebody and just think, OK, I'm gonna get to know that this year.

And we have one last question that came in anything is like the perfect one to it. Not so really openended. Probably a lot of ways to tackle it, but Silas wrote in and says what is the Swanee education worth to you?

So I'm worth yeah, we could define that in so many ways.

It's worth a lot actually because you know, my unread experience is very similar to this.

And just know that a small setting reference if I wasn't just a number you know just a random body in the class where people actually cared about my intellect about my present my Constipation. You know it was actually. I don't know it's in terms of worth it made me feel that you know, I was worth something my voice was worth being heard.

I just open my talent for you know language and I want to know acquisition exploring that maybe also try may have a different things as well.

But that's OK, I was given the freedom to explore.

So it.

It's a lot to me.

I want every student to experience that.

Yeah, I know.

My colleagues here and just being able to see how they teach and learn from them again. You know really you know a testified that there are some talented factor comes here.

And then talented staff and So what you just know care for you as I did.

Just really involved in your life in a positive way so.

Thank you.

Yeah, maybe ability to to have these 4 years to study things that you never even knew existed. I mean, I came from a?

Like High School in a small, rural area of southeastern Kentucky and I learned when I came to an experience one experienced a regulated students.

That just happened to choose our history, because, as a subject to go learn more about because.

And discovered.

And that I love Stanning, for 4 years and I've never worked in a museum. The day in the life and never will at this point but I treasure studying something that I didn't know existed when I was a high school student.

In out say that just knowing now 30 years worth of people who graduated from Swanee and even actually.

That.

Resident Birmingham this spring together my son's basketball game and went to church with one of my oldest funny friends who will turn the 100 in October 44 in like you know, so like I have a relationship with someone who took will turn 100 and then have relationships with students who are incoming freshmen this fall, and like to see that Continuum and to see what connects is able to witness buttons on his college experience and to see that what matters to him.

And yet you know, there are so many other things to study now and there was a student here to see the way that the place continuously evolves to be even better and the students get to benefit from that, and yet? What connects is this is the community different ships.

In the community.

What everything

yeah? Well, hopefully you're feeling inspired by that time I can I do my experience all over again getting Sniffle Y? Yeah, um know and I think that's so yeah, genuine an good to hear from folks outside of our office. You know because I think we live in that every day, so I would definitely encourage for students who are still deciding on Swanee. If this Pique some interest to come. How these conversations and you know, not only with our office, but with faculty and staff really encourage you to.

Is it in the spring you know visit before may if you're able to if you can't visit you know just reach out to us virtually through email and say you know, I have a follow-up question about that or not really inspired me and we can try to connect you with a student and faculty yourself number and then our next session, is actually about enrolling atoni so that's going to be on March 4th so Mark your calendar for that. You'll probably be getting lots of emails, but we want to think Julian Kim for joining us. Yes, there.