K.I.S.S. your Graduation Day HELLO!
Keep it simple students: Important things to know about your Big Day
The Commencement Countdown is March 10th & 11th in Pilla from 12 – 6 PM
1. Be sure to meet all of your financial obligations by April 15th. If not, you won’t be able to participate in the upcoming commencement ceremonies. This means - - pay your fees and tuition in full, handle deferred tuitions (UCAP and Main campus students) and handle loans (including Schell Loans), financial aid forms, aid, and library fines.
2. *There will be seminars scheduled, between November 28th through November 30th for exit interviews; if you have not received your notification regarding this, please stop by the Student Service Center, in Mullen 203, prior to November 19th to turn in your date.
3. Did you know that there is a $100 graduation processing fee? Yes! And it is not built into your tuition. So, if it is not paid you can not participate in the ceremonies; this is regardless if you walk across the stage or not.
4. Keep in mind that it is your responsibility, as a student, to make sure all of your financial aid forms are completed and returned, so that Financial Aid can post the information properly to your account in a timely fashion.
5. Look out for upcoming information on Jostens and the Campus Bookstore regarding rings and cap/gowns. Jostens will be here on October 31, 2007 from 11 AM – 2 PM in Wasmer. May grads are welcome to order rings, as well. Jostens will be back in the early spring and our bookstore will gladly accommodate sizing if anyone misses the date. Caps/Gowns are approximately priced at $60-$75.
6. *Be sure to stay in contact with your advisor. They will be able to let you know if you have met your audit course and GPA requirements for graduation.
7. Sue Kramer will let graduates know if anything appears to be missing on transcripts if anyone was transferred in or have taken courses off campus.
8. Critical information for May graduates: *There is a deadline of December 1st to complete the graduation audit with advisors and to turn in the graduation application. The forms are online.
If you have any questions regarding your responsibility as a student graduating, please be sure to stop in Mullen 203/One Stop, your advisor’s office, financial aid, and the library.
In keeping with our tradition and in the motivational words of noted scientist, journalist and author, Roger Lewin, “Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve.” This is your Big Day! And, your best resource is YOU! I can give you limited information and the rest is up to YOU. Good Luck and Congratulations!!
Kimberley H.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007
Priceless
Dear Ursuline,
I truly hope that your week has been as productive as mine and that you were able to take advantage of the many opportunities that were available on our campus. The fashion exhibits, SNUC fundraiser, and Busy Student Retreat are just a few of the spectacular events that were on hand for our community.
I had the unique pleasure of being involved in the Busy Student Retreat and found it to be enlightening. I was able to spend some time with a spiritual companion, reflect on finding peace in every moment of my life, and discovered that there was a definite need for me to stop running in circles. I believe that this past week was spent getting to know Kimberley a little better.
I am not going to make this blog very long because I need to work on something special for all of you for our next week blog. However, keeping up with our tradition, I would like to leave you with a very special thought: “We are made up of little pieces that must be brought together with love.” So, as you complete homework assignments, attend volleyball games (Go Arrows!) and, spend time with your friends and loved ones this weekend, try to remember that those little pieces are like seeds that need water, sunshine, and nourishment to grow into a healthy human being. Love yourself first and blog on!
Kimberley H.
I truly hope that your week has been as productive as mine and that you were able to take advantage of the many opportunities that were available on our campus. The fashion exhibits, SNUC fundraiser, and Busy Student Retreat are just a few of the spectacular events that were on hand for our community.
I had the unique pleasure of being involved in the Busy Student Retreat and found it to be enlightening. I was able to spend some time with a spiritual companion, reflect on finding peace in every moment of my life, and discovered that there was a definite need for me to stop running in circles. I believe that this past week was spent getting to know Kimberley a little better.
I am not going to make this blog very long because I need to work on something special for all of you for our next week blog. However, keeping up with our tradition, I would like to leave you with a very special thought: “We are made up of little pieces that must be brought together with love.” So, as you complete homework assignments, attend volleyball games (Go Arrows!) and, spend time with your friends and loved ones this weekend, try to remember that those little pieces are like seeds that need water, sunshine, and nourishment to grow into a healthy human being. Love yourself first and blog on!
Kimberley H.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Masquerade
Welcome back Ursuline!
I hope that the mid-term break was relaxing and that you found time to catch-up on studying, friends, family, and Y-O-U! Now that we are back on campus, we can enjoy Lake Elissa, spend time in class together, and await our next break during Thanksgiving. I personally, am looking forward to finishing up this semester with a fresh perspective on my life as a ministry student and my pending graduation in May, 2008.
There is so much to do before that day. Keep my GPA up, find an experiential experience in my major, and petition for graduation. I had not really thought much about it all until I received an E-mail from my advisor letting me know that I had to petition for graduation. I quickly became nervous and then the realization hit me that I was actually going to finally obtain my BA and move on to a lifelong dream. I have waited so long for this day to come and when I filled out that paperwork I was shaking. Has anyone out there ever felt this way? If so, please let me know because not only am I nervous about the petition for graduation, but I am having a difficult time filling out my graduate applications. I get them in the mail, fill out the basic stuff: name, address, date of birth, and then I freeze. I begin to question myself, “Am I ready to go on to an even higher education?” “Will I be successful in graduate school?” “Will I walk around feeling like an imposter, inadequate and unprepared for this next step in my life?”
These are genuine concerns that I think a lot of us are feeling. Speak up Ursuline and blog! Other students, just like you and me are in need of your hearing your voice. This is an important time in our lives where we are moving on and we should lean on one another for support. I am encouraging you to be there and listen to one another.
This moment of reflection led me to talk to professors, friends and family and has brought me to where I am right now. I will be okay! I can move onto graduate school because I know that Ursuline has prepared me with the foundation for success. And, in keeping with our new tradition with one another, some inspirational words from Judy Garland, “Always be a first-rate version of your self, instead of a second-rate version of someone else.” Blog on!
Your friend,
Kimberley H.
I hope that the mid-term break was relaxing and that you found time to catch-up on studying, friends, family, and Y-O-U! Now that we are back on campus, we can enjoy Lake Elissa, spend time in class together, and await our next break during Thanksgiving. I personally, am looking forward to finishing up this semester with a fresh perspective on my life as a ministry student and my pending graduation in May, 2008.
There is so much to do before that day. Keep my GPA up, find an experiential experience in my major, and petition for graduation. I had not really thought much about it all until I received an E-mail from my advisor letting me know that I had to petition for graduation. I quickly became nervous and then the realization hit me that I was actually going to finally obtain my BA and move on to a lifelong dream. I have waited so long for this day to come and when I filled out that paperwork I was shaking. Has anyone out there ever felt this way? If so, please let me know because not only am I nervous about the petition for graduation, but I am having a difficult time filling out my graduate applications. I get them in the mail, fill out the basic stuff: name, address, date of birth, and then I freeze. I begin to question myself, “Am I ready to go on to an even higher education?” “Will I be successful in graduate school?” “Will I walk around feeling like an imposter, inadequate and unprepared for this next step in my life?”
These are genuine concerns that I think a lot of us are feeling. Speak up Ursuline and blog! Other students, just like you and me are in need of your hearing your voice. This is an important time in our lives where we are moving on and we should lean on one another for support. I am encouraging you to be there and listen to one another.
This moment of reflection led me to talk to professors, friends and family and has brought me to where I am right now. I will be okay! I can move onto graduate school because I know that Ursuline has prepared me with the foundation for success. And, in keeping with our new tradition with one another, some inspirational words from Judy Garland, “Always be a first-rate version of your self, instead of a second-rate version of someone else.” Blog on!
Your friend,
Kimberley H.
Friday, October 12, 2007
Busy Bee
Hello Ursuline,
I hope that everyone is relaxing and enjoying the mid-term break. I actually miss the hustle and bustle of our classes. Being surrounded by my fellow students allows me to learn and develop a lifetime of valuable, interpersonal relationships. And, although we are a part from one another I have come to realize that I need to reflect on who I am becoming this semester. My classes are challenging, there are a lot of responsibilities weighing heavy upon me, and time is of the essence to accomplish each and every task with careful consideration, because each one deserves my full and undivided attention. This can turn out to be quite overwhelming.
This break was like no other for me. I spent time taking care of everyone else and somewhere in the tunnel, on my way to wisdom, I came to realize that I may be doing too much. This is a first for me because I have always thought that I function better when under pressure. I keep busy and things get done. However, being too busy can confuse things and cause the important people, and things, to suffer from lack of my attention.
Let me show you just a small glimpse of my mid-term break world:
1. My daughter’s first sleepover, on my 40th birthday during our break.
2. My birthday spent entertaining 4, high energy, little girls whose only mission was to stay up all night and giggle.
3. Attending to my hospice patients throughout the next day with only 2 hours of sleep after my daughter’s party.
4. Organizing my newly developed Girl Scout troop.
5. And, finally attempting to catch up to all of my homework.
Wow!! What a break, huh? Well not really, because I never made time for me.
I have learned something different about myself during this break. I now know that there is more to life then keeping busy; I have to take time to reflect on the important things and not make everything so critical and urgent. Things do not need to be done right now. I have to find a 3rd alternative to the bumps on my road to success. Not a compromise, yet a solution to making things work for everyone’s happiness; mine, my children’s, and my studies. I believe that there is one out there that will not necessarily be my choice, but the right choice.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great philosopher, poet, and author once said, “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” I can not be so busy with my past or my future that it takes away from who I really am and who I am growing up to be. Blog on!
Yours truly,
Kimberley H.
I hope that everyone is relaxing and enjoying the mid-term break. I actually miss the hustle and bustle of our classes. Being surrounded by my fellow students allows me to learn and develop a lifetime of valuable, interpersonal relationships. And, although we are a part from one another I have come to realize that I need to reflect on who I am becoming this semester. My classes are challenging, there are a lot of responsibilities weighing heavy upon me, and time is of the essence to accomplish each and every task with careful consideration, because each one deserves my full and undivided attention. This can turn out to be quite overwhelming.
This break was like no other for me. I spent time taking care of everyone else and somewhere in the tunnel, on my way to wisdom, I came to realize that I may be doing too much. This is a first for me because I have always thought that I function better when under pressure. I keep busy and things get done. However, being too busy can confuse things and cause the important people, and things, to suffer from lack of my attention.
Let me show you just a small glimpse of my mid-term break world:
1. My daughter’s first sleepover, on my 40th birthday during our break.
2. My birthday spent entertaining 4, high energy, little girls whose only mission was to stay up all night and giggle.
3. Attending to my hospice patients throughout the next day with only 2 hours of sleep after my daughter’s party.
4. Organizing my newly developed Girl Scout troop.
5. And, finally attempting to catch up to all of my homework.
Wow!! What a break, huh? Well not really, because I never made time for me.
I have learned something different about myself during this break. I now know that there is more to life then keeping busy; I have to take time to reflect on the important things and not make everything so critical and urgent. Things do not need to be done right now. I have to find a 3rd alternative to the bumps on my road to success. Not a compromise, yet a solution to making things work for everyone’s happiness; mine, my children’s, and my studies. I believe that there is one out there that will not necessarily be my choice, but the right choice.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great philosopher, poet, and author once said, “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” I can not be so busy with my past or my future that it takes away from who I really am and who I am growing up to be. Blog on!
Yours truly,
Kimberley H.
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
It is all about Y-O-U!
Hello…is there anyone there? Students, former or current, who can offer any input into what I may possibly be feeling? Values, voice, and vision, right? The opportunity to speak up about the things we are all experiencing and to hopefully help one another. If so, where is the passion for what you believe in or an opinion into what I have said thus far? I want to hear from Y-O-U!
I walk this campus practically everyday and look out into a garden of beautiful minds; women from different walks of life who continuously bloom their individual callings. I sit in classes, amongst our future nurses, politicians, and religious leaders searching for answers to the issues of our time; attempting to resolve them so that our children and their children will have a fighting chance. Yet, when I show-up here on Monday morning and check out my blog for comments, I am disappointed to find none. To be quite honest with you, I find this all too hard to believe because as I sit in Pilla eating breakfast, lunch, and sometimes dinner, walking the labyrinth, and praying with you, I have come to expect more.
Please, open up your eyes and see that we have been given this unique and amazing space to talk about whatever we may be going through? Having a difficult time balancing family and school? Challenging moments in your last few semesters? Or, care to share your plans as you draw closer to graduation? WE want to hear from Y-O-U because there is more than one voice at Ursuline that deserves to be heard, there is value in your thoughts, and this blog encourages your story to be heard.
In the words of journalist, Joseph Pulitzer, “Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, pitcturesquely so they will remember it, and above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.” Reach out and blog…your Ursuline community wants to hear from Y-O-U!
Yours truly,
Kimberley H.
I walk this campus practically everyday and look out into a garden of beautiful minds; women from different walks of life who continuously bloom their individual callings. I sit in classes, amongst our future nurses, politicians, and religious leaders searching for answers to the issues of our time; attempting to resolve them so that our children and their children will have a fighting chance. Yet, when I show-up here on Monday morning and check out my blog for comments, I am disappointed to find none. To be quite honest with you, I find this all too hard to believe because as I sit in Pilla eating breakfast, lunch, and sometimes dinner, walking the labyrinth, and praying with you, I have come to expect more.
Please, open up your eyes and see that we have been given this unique and amazing space to talk about whatever we may be going through? Having a difficult time balancing family and school? Challenging moments in your last few semesters? Or, care to share your plans as you draw closer to graduation? WE want to hear from Y-O-U because there is more than one voice at Ursuline that deserves to be heard, there is value in your thoughts, and this blog encourages your story to be heard.
In the words of journalist, Joseph Pulitzer, “Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, pitcturesquely so they will remember it, and above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.” Reach out and blog…your Ursuline community wants to hear from Y-O-U!
Yours truly,
Kimberley H.
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