The Gender and International Affairs Conference has become a major Fletcher event since its inaugural 2015 edition. This student-organized conclave has featured past keynote speakers including Samantha Power and Jamille Bigio, and this year’s edition (the 8th!) promises to be just as exciting.
Read MoreHappy summer, everyone! I initially was looking forward to some well-deserved relaxation, only to get exactly 12 hours off between turning in my last final and beginning my full-time job. This summer will probably not be that relaxing but will be extremely eventful.
Read MoreWe admissions types often hear some version of a comment about how things must slow down in the summer with no students around. It’s understandable that this might seem true from an outside perspective, but there is plenty to keep us occupied in the summer months between on-boarding the class arriving this fall and planning for future classes that will arrive in 2023. Yes, we’re already thinking that far ahead.
Read MoreCongratulations to current students Kathy Huishan Hu (MIB’23), Olivia Luciani (MALD’22), Riya Mehta (MIB’23), and Nino Sakvarelidze (MALD’23) for taking second place in the Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge!
Read MoreToday I’ll wrap up our series of advice for incoming (and future) students with a recommendation that should be easy to follow: Read a book! More generally, make time for whatever non-international affairs pursuit you enjoy in life. As Viv Savage would put it, have a good time…ALL the time.
Read MoreIt’s time to get to the more fun stuff as we continue to dish out advice to incoming students! Knowing your resources and digging into the curriculum are all well and good, but those sound suspiciously like work. Summer is coming, after all, so let’s relax a bit!
Read MoreBlog friends, it is ON. Commencement time!
Read MoreContinuing our series of tips to help incoming students prepare for life at Fletcher, today I’ll focus on another topic that might make you think “well duh.” A reasonable response to my advice to start digging into the Fletcher curriculum is to point out that any student who applied to Fletcher, much less confirmed their plans to attend, surely has done quite a lot of this already. I sure hope so! However, the lens through which you view curricular offerings as an applicant or even an admitted student can be quite different for enrolled students.
Read MoreOver the next week or two I’ll focus on offering advice to incoming students, which I hope will be useful not just for those arriving this fall but also for future students interested in understanding what comes next after confirming enrollment.
Read MoreThe June 10 Map Your Future (MYF) application deadline is fast approaching!
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