the encouragement lounge: Coming soon -- reader contribution week!

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Coming soon -- reader contribution week!

Share your ideas! Later this month I will publish guest posts from readers. What are your strategies for time management, stress management, overcoming procrastination? What are the approaches that help you succeed in school and other endeavors?

Please send your idea to me at harrietschwartz14@gmail.com no later than June 20. Let me know how I should list your name (first name only, first name and home city, full name, etc.). Also, if you have a blog and would like me to link to it, please include your blog address. Finally, feel free to send a photo to accompany your post, or suggestions for a photo (if you don't do this, I'll add a photo that I think works well).

I look forward to hearing YOUR ideas!

cheers

Harriet

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Working adult students, on my mind...

I hope this blog will be helpful to friends and others involved in a variety of endeavors. However, I created the blog with students in mind and continue to develop it with that specific group as my focus.

I believe that with the increase in evening, weekend, and low-residency programs, students are working more and more in isolation. If we were all full-time students on campus, we would have the informal support that comes with being able to go down the hall and talk with a colleague, etc. But instead, we are working late nights and weekends at home in front of the laptop.

With that in mind, I hope the encouragement lounge provides brief moments of respite and energizing connection. This does not at all replace valuable face-to-face contact. Many aspects of the academic journey can only be addressed via in-depth conversations with colleagues and teachers. And I would always rather sit down and talk with someone than to communicate online. Nonetheless, my aim is to give you one more channel for quick hits of support.