Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
On our fifth and final day of the Foxes Go to College Intensive Learning group, we reviewed each of the colleges this week by completing college scorecard charts and reviewing with our groups. The first few hours of our day consisted of filling out the scorecard sheets we’ve been slowly working on throughout this...
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Today, on this very sunny and hot day, the Foxes visited Lafayette College. Lafayette College is a small liberal arts school with about 2700 students (10:1 student to teacher ratio). During our visit, we were accompanied by Lafayette alum and expert: Chris LaTempa. When we first arrived on campus we were surprised to find...
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After a long bus ride to Haverford College, we started our day with the info session, where we learned a lot about life as a student at Haverford and what the university has to offer. Students were pleasantly surprised to learn that dorm rooms were about 70% singles. In addition to learning about the...
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Today, on this sunny day, we visited Thomas Jefferson University. Our tour was an enriching and memorable experience that exceeded our expectations. From the moment we arrived on campus, the energy was palpable, and our tour guide was informative yet lively. So as we walked around the campus, we saw the unique architecture, which...
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By: Nolan, Delaney, Maya, and Shiv Although the week started off rainy and bleak, the MFS Foxes brought the sunshine to the campus of Rowan University. Meeting up in Ms. Slocum’s room to prepare for the day, we discussed plans for our campus visit and learned about different aspects of Rowan, ranging from the...
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Sadly, today is the last day of our Intensive Learning. We concluded our thoughts about the schools we went to and did a small recap/reflection of our IL experience. 1 – Ranking Colleges We started by ranking the colleges/universities we had visited this past week based on our own criteria, such as campus appearance,...
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Touring Haverford and exploring the aspects of student life and general environment was a great way for us to close our collegiate exploration during this Intensive Learning experience. Although we’re all sad this is our last stop, it certainly doesn’t mark the end of Thriving Now and Beyond. We’ve still got one more day...
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By Zahra and Jaden Today on Thriving Now and Beyond, we visited Swarthmore College, a liberal arts college located in Pennsylvania! We ended up really enjoying this particular college visit because we could spend the entire day within the campus, fitting in an info session, campus tour and lunch at the Swarthmore Dining Hall....
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Hello, and welcome to day three of Thriving Now and Beyond! Today was probably the busiest day yet, so there’s a lot to cover. Without further ado, let’s begin! We began our day by “touring” The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), however, we only did a self-guided tour in addition to an info session,...
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By Matthew and Jayden Today was a Monday, but also our second day of Thriving Now and Beyond! There’s a lot to go over, from rain to colleges to even more rain! So, without further ado, let’s begin! Drexel University We began our day at the visitors center of Drexel University in Philadelphia. There,...
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By Nolan and Zahra The morning began with some silent queries on what interested us on college visits and our student traits ranging from strengths to weaknesses. Then we moved on to our first task of the day: completing strength inventory surveys to reflect internally before touring colleges. These surveys took an hour to...
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