Hard to believe it’s already October, right? Apparently a pandemic can make all months feel the same in addition to days. Fortunately your Minister of Deadline Reminders and Other Action Items is here to remind you that the application deadline for January enrollment is October 10, a mere ten days away!
Read MoreAspiring Foreign Service Officers, take note! Three major fellowships for those interested in Foreign Service careers have recently announced their upcoming application cycles, and there are some changes afoot to the process and eligibility criteria.
Read MoreEven while conducting the fall 2020 semester remotely, Fletcher makes itself felt on the Tufts campus. It was such a delight to get the recent update that the Tufts cannon has been Fletcherized. The cannon functions as a low-tech message board of sorts for the entire Tufts community, and is repurposed so frequently that it has been covered in an actual ton of paint in the fairly recent past.
Read MoreLast fall it was my great pleasure to write about a pair of Fletcher student teams that dominated an annual cybersecurity simulation event sponsored by The Atlantic Council. FSociety, the team that won that event, is continuing its success with its showing in the National Security Innovation Network’s Dense Urban Environment Challenge.
Read MoreIt’s been a heartbreaking week in the United States. I thought it worth sharing Dean Kyte’s recent statement in its entirety.
Read MoreAt the blog-reading stage, some readers may have a vague familiarity with Liz’s name, but you’d be hard-pressed to find any Fletcher students over the past 7 years who don’t know her well. We’ve been aware for nearly a month that Liz is moving on to an exciting new admissions opportunity, but the reality of her departure is setting in for real as she spends her final days on our team.
Read MoreThings are beginning to slow down a wee bit for Fletcher students. “Starting” is the key word here, as plenty of students aren’t out of the woods of finals quite yet, but most can at least see the finish line at this point. The Ginn Library reading room was as packed as I’ve ever seen it late last week, but this week it’s started looking sparse.
Read MoreReaders, I realize it may seem comically premature of me to start issuing deadline reminders a full month in advance. The January 10th application deadline – the big one, the scholarship priority one, the one that applies to the majority of applicants – is still weeks away. Let’s think about the other things many of you have going on during that time, though. The collective list may include finals, end-of-year workplace budgets, reports, and projects, holiday shopping and planning, travels both near and far, and hopefully a bit of seasonal celebrating and relaxing. That month, which seems to promise loads of available time to work away on your applications, can start looking pretty short pretty quickly.
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