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Gearing up

Updated: Feb 24, 2020

...and getting excited for our launch event: a free College Essay Workshop next Saturday, May 11, 11 am - 1 pm in Glen Cove. We have a fantastic group of students and volunteers signed up—there are only a (very) few spaces left! We'll have snacks, beverages, pens, pencils, and notebooks on hand; students are welcome to bring laptops.


No need to prepare in advance, but if you want to start thinking or jotting down ideas to bring with you, here's a question to mull over:


What would have to tell someone about yourself for them to know the real you?


Grab a piece of paper and write down any memories, phrases, and best of all images (you can draw them!) that come to mind. Try to remember in words and/or pictures through all the senses: sights, sounds, tastes, touch, smell, and feeling (the sixth sense).



Follow up questions:


Has there been an experience or event so important to you that you think of your life "before" and "after" it?


What makes you different from a lot of other people—maybe even from your closest friends?


What's the biggest mistake you've made so far?


What's the toughest problem you've ever solved?

 
 
 

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LONG ISLAND SCHOLARS is a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit in Glen Cove, NY, dedicated to leveling the college and career access playing fields for motivated, under-resourced public high school students on Long Island and in Brooklyn and Queens. LONG ISLAND SCHOLARS is a member of the Glen Cove, NY Chamber of Commerce.

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Dr. Shawn Marie Garrett

Co-founder and Director of Educational Consulting for Long Island Scholars and for GPS Academy Great Neck (a private global educational consulting firm).

Associate Member, Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA)

20 years' service on teaching faculties at Yale University (Theater, English); Barnard College, Columbia University (Theater) ; Stony Brook University (Writing and Rhetoric); and in private secondary education.

D.F.A., M.F.A., Yale University

B.A., Duke University

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