Thriving Now & Beyond 2025

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,...

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...

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....

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,...

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,...

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...