Monday, December 11, 2023
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Fielding Questions About Your Future Plans
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Feature by: Career and Community Engagement Center (CCEC)
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Coaches in the CCEC are available during the week after finals and the week before Spring Semester starts. Schedule an appointment in Handshake.
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With winter break just around the corner, perhaps you’ve begun to brace yourself for the inevitable barrage of questions: “What are your plans for the summer? What will you do after graduation? How will you get a job with that major?”
Whatever circumstances you find yourself in, contemplating possible answers to these questions ahead of time can ease stress and help you feel better prepared to discuss them with curious family and friends. The CCEC team has put together our best advice for navigating these challenging questions.
First, a reminder that it is okay—helpful, even!—to field these questions by steering the conversation in a direction that serves your needs. To this end, take a few minutes to consider what you want to talk about. Are there insights you could gather over the holidays that might help with a future step like declaring a major, searching for a summer internship or planning a fellowship project? Did you learn something during the semester that you’d like to explore further via community engagement or collaborative research? If you spend a few minutes pondering how winter-break conversations can help you refine and advance your plans, then you’ll be better prepared to direct conversations where you’d like them to go.
Then, think about how you might respond in ways that will actually elicit helpful information from the people asking questions. If a family member asks what you plan to do after graduation, ask what led them to their current role or organization. If a neighbor asks about your summer plans, ask them what experience is useful or even necessary in their field of work.
You can extend your conversations beyond family and friends by initiating new relationships with Whitman alumni through the Whitman Connect platform. Here, you can start communicating with Whitties who have volunteered and are excited to share insight, advice and encouragement with current students.
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Michelle Janning Presents at Blue Zones Project Event
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Sharon Alker Speaks at Simon Fraser University
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Sharon Alker, the Mary A. Denny Professor of English and General Studies, recently co-presented the 2023 St. Andrew’s and Caledonian Lecture for Simon Fraser University’s Research Centre for Scottish Studies. Alker delivered the lecture, titled “Scots, Siege Warfare and Storytelling,” together with her sister, Holly Faith Nelson, Professor of English and Co-Director of the Gender Studies Institute at Trinity Western University. A video of the lecture is available online.
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Climbing Gym Hours Update
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The Climbing Gym will have modified hours this week—open daily from 5–8 p.m.—and will be closed for the winter break from December 15, 2023 to January 14, 2024.
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Factbook Town Hall on Wednesday
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The annual Whitman Factbook has been released, containing a variety of tables, graphs and statistics about Whitman students, faculty, staff and finances. A Factbook Town Hall event will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 13 at 4 p.m. co-hosted by the Division of Diversity and Inclusion and the Office of Institutional Research.
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Communications Launches New Brand & Identity Guide
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The Office of Communications has published a new online Brand Identity and Usage Guide. Please use this resource to understand and apply Whitman College branding guidelines, whether you’re creating content, representing the college at events or exploring our brand elements. The new site includes information about logos, colors, fonts, stationery, email signatures and more!
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The current exhibit at Stevens Gallery in Reid Campus Center is “Hybrid Beings, 2023” by Fiona Shaughnessy ’23. The correlation between femininity and nature is explored through sculpted figures that each appear somewhere on a spectrum between plant and woman and between fantasy and reality.
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Cleveland Commons, Lizzie Murr Conference Room
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Memorial Building, Room 205
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Reid Campus Center, Young Ballroom
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