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Commitment and Creativity: Investing Ourselves in What Matters to Us

Wed Feb 15, 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

BSC, 5 Linden Street

 

with Ariel Phillips and Sheila Reindl

Consider where you devote yourself and your resources in the face of pressures to spread yourself too thin rather than commit your creative intelligence to what deeply matters to you. Register here.

If you need special accommodations, please contact the BSC at least two weeks prior to a workshop.

 

Definitions of Success through Cultural Lenses

Thu Mar 30, 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Lehman Hall (Dudley House), Common Room rm. 201

The Success-Failure Project at the Bureau of Study Counsel will be hosting international student panelists on the discussion on Definitions of Success through a Cultural Lenses. Free and open to the Harvard community. No registration required. 

 

 

Procrastination

Wed Mar 8, 3:00pm to 4:30pm

Location: 

BSC, 5 Linden Street

with Robin Warrington

Explore factors that might lead us to procrastinate, including the wisdom that motivates meaningful digressions. Consider practical and attitudinal approaches we might try when we find ourselves resisting or avoiding our academic work. Register here

If you need special accommodations, please contact the BSC at least two weeks prior to a workshop.

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Learning in the Context of Loss

Wed Nov 16, 2:00pm to 3:30pm

Location: 

BSC, 5 Linden

with Sheila Reindl and SungLim Shin

Consider with other Harvard students who have experienced the death of someone who mattered to them how your experience of learning is influenced by your experience of loss (and how your experience of loss might in turn be influenced by your experience of learning). Click here to register.

If you need special accommodations, please contact the BSC...

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Working While Worrying: Coping with Illness of a Loved One

Mon Oct 17, 1:00pm to 2:30pm

Location: 

BSC, 5 Linden

with Aurora Sanfeliz

Get support and explore strategies to help you focus on your academic work while worried about the health of a family member or close friend. To register, email Aurora Sanfeliz.

If you need special accommodations, please contact the BSC at least two weeks prior to a workshop.

 

What Are You Doing With Your Life

Fri Sep 30, 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

BSC, 5 Linden

 

Weekly 90-minute meetings beginning September 30. For graduate students. A discussion group to explore purpose, passion, potential, conflicts, and challenges. 

This group is closed. If there is sufficient interest, we will form another such group. If you are interested, please call 617-495-2581 to schedule at 30-minute pre-group consultation meeting. You can also address these sorts of concerns in one-on-one meetings with an academic counselor.

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Procrastination

Wed Nov 2, 2:00pm to 3:30pm

Location: 

BSC, 5 Linden

with Robin Warrington

Explore factors that might lead us to procrastinate, including the wisdom that motivates meaningful digressions. Consider practical and attitudinal approaches we might try when we find ourselves resisting or avoiding our academic work. Click here to register.

If you need special accommodations,...

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Commitment and Creativity: Investing Ourselves in What Matters to Us

Wed Oct 12, 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

BSC, 5 Linden

with Ariel Phillips and Sheila Reindl

Consider where and how you devote your energy, time, talent, and savvy in the face of internal and external pressures to spread yourself too thin -- taking a “just get it done” approach that can result in uninspired productivity rather than committing your creative intelligence in the service of what deeply matters to you. Click ...

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Success & Failure: What I Have Learned as a Leader of an Education Organization

Thu Apr 28, 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Are you interested in founding or leading an education organization? CEOs and leaders of three education organizations, the KIPP, Education Modified, and IvyMinded, will join us and share their stories. You can hear from them how they define success in their current roles, what kinds of mistakes and failures they have experienced, and how they responded to them. Facilitated by Sangwoo Lee, IEP Candidate, and Ariel Phillips, Ed.D., Bureau of Study Counsel.

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