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Personal Practices

Getting Started with LinkedIn

Today we are going to set up our LinkedIn account that’s going to be our public-facing social media as we’re applying to colleges, then looking for internships, and hopefully starting a career or moving on to grad school. As we get started on this project, the important thing to remember about LinkedIn is that its […]

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College Selecting

Demonstrating Interest with Intellectual Curiosity

Today we’re going to learn an advanced technique (that is: optional!) for demonstrating interest in (pandering to) a university we want to be admitted to without leaving home, reversing that technique to find more universities to be interested in, and recording this work to make our essay writing more efficient for the next several years. […]

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Personal Practices

Perception Control & Boundary-Setting

We’re going to start some work on actively controlling how other people (in college admissions offices) initially see us and set some boundaries on how they can contact us (so they’re less able to stress us out). Set Your Current Social Media Accounts to be Private (You may have done this already.) What to do: […]