We are so excited to welcome our new Fletcher community members! A piece of advice I always share with new students is to take full advantage of the summer before your first semester to read for personal enjoyment.
Read MoreToday we’ll check in with Henry, who urges incoming students to do whatever it takes to set aside some time for themselves before the start of the fall semester.
Read MoreAs promised, I’m turning things over to my Admissions colleagues for their advice to incoming students. Take it away, Rita!
Read MoreIt’s been a while since I’ve deputized my Admissions colleagues to assemble in the blogatorium, and this is a natural time of year to turn to my co-conspirators for some words of wisdom. While much of our attention is now pivoting toward assembling the next Fletcher class (for 2022 matriculation, crazy as that sounds), there’s still quite a lot of work we’re doing with incoming students.
Read MoreHaving a beautiful spring day for this year’s virtual commencement ceremonies didn’t technically matter, but it somehow made the screen-mediated festivities feel slightly closer to how they should be observed. While it might be cold comfort to this year’s graduates, the added knowledge that we’re quickly approaching a return to “normalcy” lent a buoyancy to the ceremony that the occasion deserves.
Read MoreWith classes and finals officially over it’s starting to feel like the early days of summer in earnest. There’s a bittersweet quality to the end of every academic year, though this year the sense of mixed emotions seems more pronounced than usual.
Read MoreMid-May is a time for a lot of celebrations in these parts, beyond just the (relatively) permanent arrival of beautiful spring weather. The Honos Civicus Society of Tufts’ Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life announces its annual awardees around this time each year, and it’s always such a pleasure to see a healthy crop of Fletcher students included in the list.
Read MoreRegular blog readers may be surprised to see a deadline-related post at this point in the year. It’s approaching mid-May, after all, the time of year in which your focus understandably may be more on the dubious playoff prospects of the Celtics or the surprising start of the spunky Red Sox. For current college seniors, though, the June 10 Map Your Future (MYF) application deadline is one to bear in mind.
Read MoreIt’s time to check in with 2nd-year MALD student Mohit. Longtime readers know Mohit to be a particularly busy student, between his work as a development entrepreneur and the demands of finishing his studies (and, of course, as a regular blog contributor!). He nonetheless recently found some time to reflect back on his final semester, and his larger experience at Fletcher.
Read MoreCommencement likely still feels a ways off for students who are wrapping up classes and prepping for finals, but the three weeks between now and then will go quickly. The virtual festivities – hopefully the last virtual Commencement – will take place on May 23, and will feature United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi as the keynote speaker.
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