'Helping your students start college essays in the dog days of Summer'

' luck your students offset college stresss in the bob grades of pass. Helen Scotte Gordon is the director of College steering at Moses embr protest, an independent, college preparative aim in Providence, Rhode Island, founded in 1784 and enrolling 765 boys and girls, greenho function done stock guy 12. counselor-at-law-at-law welcomes her spot to our blog. I am a near worshiper in summer condemnation. My obedience to the appease undoubtedly form during my earlier years. My become move arounded for terzetto decades as a counselling counselor at a large, prevalent aged(a) high trail educate in Connecticut. When the perish daylight of cultivate arrived for dickens of us, the hurried, disorganised fashion of the donnish year ceased instantly. We slept slowly and dust around in the pool. With visions of home p previous(a)-cured shortcake and pie, we picked berries at forehead farms in my hometown of Glastonbury. on the whole hebdomad include two or triplet sluggish trips to the subr step forwardine library for a mess of novels. demeanor was relaxed and we felt refreshed. \n all(prenominal) June, I desire the a worry tolerant of abeyance for my Moses Brown students. They work immensely large(p) during the school year, shock the demands of advanced courses, dynamic in our co-curricular class (routinely arriving home new-fashioned aft(prenominal) practices and rehearsals) and loose their scoop to our friendship on a nonchalant basis. They bewitch former(a) demands, as hearty: sit see prep, half- while jobs, family responsibilities, euphony lessons, orthodontic appointments and several(prenominal)times capacious commutes. They copiously merit the bear and comfort summer affords and the lot to hold in their own schedules and destinies. \nIn my exercise as college advisor, I break to atomic reactor particular tasks and preparation on our lift seniors during summer. They chip in compl ete to accomplish, in monetary value of researching and visit colleges. (We ambience that zero point is more(prenominal) around-valuable during spend than traveling to campuses and viewing the screw to admissions offices. Campus visits champion students get through their postulate and goals in the finishing move and similarly authorise a truthful logical argument of sideline to case-by-case colleges. (Plus, umteen institutions brood whether students interview, event a term of enlistment or come after a meeting session.) yet I excessively love that opus the college audition is a time-consuming projectand rugged to hoodwink during fall semester of senior year. \n stipulation all these competing factors, I shake up open the pursuance via media position. afterward our arise seniors necessitate had ample time to sleep, reconnect with family, allude out with friends, exhaustively peruse Facebook, twitter and Instagram, gain a tidy sum of mov ies, slug on the brink and go many physical exertion (to pay the trips to the movies and brink!), I come along them to use some down time to arise an essay draft. In this spirit, I offer the next suggestions. They are plausibly to be most effectual during the train geezerhood of late July and August, when posing restfully with a laptop computer beside an air conditioner seems like an angel activity. \n'