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Seniors find useful tips for life after PLU
May 04, 2007
Last week’s “Senior DisOrientation” seminar provided graduating seniors with some practical advice about how to survive in the world beyond the Lutedome.
Organized by the Student Alumni Association and the South Hall community assistants, the event was comprised of 20-minute presentations by PLU staff members and recent alumni. The presentations covered a range of topics, from money management and dealing with landlords and leases to staying fit, moving to a new city and finding an unadvertised job.
The seminar marked the conclusion of a series of programming focused on helping seniors make a successful transition from life at PLU to life in the “real world,” said senior Shannon Murphy, a South Hall community assistant. While most of the programming focused on reflection, last week’s event gave students useful, basic information.
“We’re giving students the tools, the resource tools to enable them to go out and take on the world,” Murphy said.
During the last four years, the Class of 2007 has been engrossed in the Wild Hope Project, the vocation focused program that asks students, “What will you do with your one wild and precious life?”
Senior Kaarin Praxel, president of SAA, said that while Wild Hope has encouraged students to ask themselves some tough questions, it doesn’t give students concrete tools to survive day-to-day in the real world.
“The one thing that has been jumping around in people’s minds is, ‘How does this translate to the real world?’” she explained. “This event gave practical advice.”
That practical advice included information about the benefits of being a PLU alumnus, basic career advice, what to look for in a rental lease and traveling after graduation. The seminar also focused on how to get an unadvertised job, budget your money, adjust to life in a new city and choose the right health insurance plan. The alumni office offers a short-term medial insurance coverage for recent graduates who may be temporarily without coverage. Learn more at here.
The programming series was inspired by PLU’s First Year Experience program, a series of courses, seminars, excursions and retreats aimed to ease the transition to PLU for first year students. PLU does a great job orienting first years to campus, but it doesn’t do as well orienting graduating seniors to life after PLU, Murphy said.
After serving as EXPLORE! leaders, several of the South Hall community assistants decided to develop a program similar to the First Year Experience for graduating seniors. The students named the program South Hall Upperclassmen Residential Experience, or SURE, because the program aims to help seniors be “sure” about their future, Murphy said.
“We wanted to get the resources and questioning the first years were getting,” Murphy explained.
Packets of information containing the information presented at the seminar and a list of additional resources are available from SURE. To learn more about the program or request more information, visit www.plu.edu/~south/sure-program-1/home.html.
Photo by Brett Patterson.
The seminar marked the conclusion of a series of programming focused on helping seniors make a successful transition from life at PLU to life in the “real world,” said senior Shannon Murphy, a South Hall community assistant. While most of the programming focused on reflection, last week’s event gave students useful, basic information.
“We’re giving students the tools, the resource tools to enable them to go out and take on the world,” Murphy said.
During the last four years, the Class of 2007 has been engrossed in the Wild Hope Project, the vocation focused program that asks students, “What will you do with your one wild and precious life?”
Senior Kaarin Praxel, president of SAA, said that while Wild Hope has encouraged students to ask themselves some tough questions, it doesn’t give students concrete tools to survive day-to-day in the real world.
“The one thing that has been jumping around in people’s minds is, ‘How does this translate to the real world?’” she explained. “This event gave practical advice.”
That practical advice included information about the benefits of being a PLU alumnus, basic career advice, what to look for in a rental lease and traveling after graduation. The seminar also focused on how to get an unadvertised job, budget your money, adjust to life in a new city and choose the right health insurance plan. The alumni office offers a short-term medial insurance coverage for recent graduates who may be temporarily without coverage. Learn more at here.
The programming series was inspired by PLU’s First Year Experience program, a series of courses, seminars, excursions and retreats aimed to ease the transition to PLU for first year students. PLU does a great job orienting first years to campus, but it doesn’t do as well orienting graduating seniors to life after PLU, Murphy said.
After serving as EXPLORE! leaders, several of the South Hall community assistants decided to develop a program similar to the First Year Experience for graduating seniors. The students named the program South Hall Upperclassmen Residential Experience, or SURE, because the program aims to help seniors be “sure” about their future, Murphy said.
“We wanted to get the resources and questioning the first years were getting,” Murphy explained.
Packets of information containing the information presented at the seminar and a list of additional resources are available from SURE. To learn more about the program or request more information, visit www.plu.edu/~south/sure-program-1/home.html.
Photo by Brett Patterson.