a trial, with your peers

First off, Laura brilliantly beat me to this (see below, we’re posting nearly simultaneously tonight, because GREAT MINDS), but : it is registration time around here, so if anyone has BURNING questions (or any other kind, I suppose) please feel free to reach out and let us know.  We are happy to help.
On that note, [...]

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Registration

It’s only November but as students know, we’ve been registering for Spring semester this week. I’m kind of having trouble believing it really will be my last semester at Milano, but it’s also very exciting to think about what will come after. I am registered for 3 classes including my Advanced Seminar in Nonprofit Management [...]

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a kind of blue…

Last Saturday was the first (hopefully) annual Milano Cares Day, an event which dispatched teams, SWARMS, of us all over New York City in a volunteer effort to assist all sorts of nonprofit organizations with various needs.  There were projects working with seniors, local community development groups, and doing everything from talking to kids about career [...]

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Update on Community Development Practicum a.k.a. The Chase Class

Have we really been in class for 10 weeks now?? Time sure flies by when you’re having fun… or are too busy to even remember what day it is. The Chase class has hit full-steam, since we are turning our proposal over to the Parsons designers on Monday. We are now on official Draft #7 [...]

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thoughts from a student in exile (a/k/a, New Jersey)

I guess we’re back to business as usual at The New School—at least in some quarters.  I’ll come back to that in a moment.  Also? I am so excited to hear more from Laura as she works on the NOLA project. Kudos!
I had some shuffling to do thus far this fall term.  First, the shuffling [...]

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New School, New Orleans & NENA

Today is the start of the 4th week of the Fall semester and my 3rd here at Milano. This time last year I was having anxiety about how I would  ever finish all of my readings for Making a Difference and if I could even understand Economics. Man, am I glad that is all over! [...]

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Orientation Week

Welcome to all of the incoming Milano students!
I was lucky enough to help out this week with new student orientation. Thanks to many of my fellow classmates (Tanya, Johanna, Julian, Rachel, Galina, Amy, Eugene, Tushar, Steve, Marie, Eric, Shana, Sally, Evelyn, Analia, Dania, Bryan, Christine, Ritu, Helen, Vicki and others) all new students who were [...]

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it’s time to get this party started!

…would be what some MIGHT say about the beginning of a new school year.  I’m interrupting my electronic “unplugged” week today to do a bit of housekeeping here and there, but will largely be offline for the rest of the last week of summer vacation.  One reason I opted for this “unplugged” week is that [...]

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Winding Down

For those of you counting down the days until the Fall semester starts, there are 13 days. Lucky ol’ 13. Somehow I feel like I’m already behind in my classes though… I have intermittently been working on some “summer assignments” but I’ve been busy interning full-time at a nonprofit consulting firm until recently. Two of [...]

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shameless teaser post: antici…pation

Forgive that Rocky Horror Picture Show reference, please, although if you’re not familiar owing to youth or if campy midnight audience-participation films are not your cup of tea, I apologize.  I know my casual American pop-culture references might make for some undesired confusion, but the fact that I speak in these metaphors actually types me quite [...]

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