Planning for the future one college visit at a time

Serena Bettis • October 2, 2015

20151002_130206 — Posters and brochures for upcoming college visits are always posted outside the Career Center. Photo Credit: Serena Bettis

Representatives from thirty-nine different colleges from all across the nation are coming to Fossil the week of October 5. The Career Center, a busy place most weeks, is going to be full of college reps all throughout the week who are in town for college fairs and eager to speak with prospective attendees of the colleges they represent. College reps are great for help with postgraduate planning and can answer students’ questions about why they should go to a certain college, and what it takes to get into that college.

The annual Colorado Western Slope College Fair in Aspen, Colorado is on Sunday, October 4, and with it are about 250 college admissions officers from out of state, and even the country. There is also an Out of State College Fair at Poudre High School on October 6. College reps try to visit as many high schools as possible while they are here for these big events, which is why thirty-nine representatives are visiting Fossil within a single week.

Scheduling thirty-nine visits within one week is challenging, but Mrs. Nye, the secretary in the Career Center, knows how to stagger times and places so that everything runs smoothly. Reps will be speaking in the Career Center, Roundhouse, Front Office Conference Room, and open classrooms, sometimes only thirty minutes apart. If students cannot make it to one of the meetings, the college fair at Poudre is free and open to everyone, and over 180 colleges will be there. To register for the fair students can go to www.gotocollegefairs.com Even if a student knows where they want to go to school, reps are helpful in answering questions about campus life, scholarship opportunities, and anything else students want to know about a college.

The college visits for October 5-9 are:

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Monday, October 5:
Antioch College – 8:00 AM
University of British Columbia – 10:30 AM
University of Redlands – 11:45 AM
Samford University – 1:00 AM
University of Utah – 1:15 AM

Tuesday, October 6:
Clarkson University – 9:00 AM
Iowa State University – 9:00 AM
Landmark College – 9:00 AM
Boise State University – 10:00 AM
Harvey Mudd College – 10:30 AM
Arizona State University – 11:00 AM
Montana Tech – 11:00 AM
Carleton College – 11:00 AM
Westmont College – 11:15 AM
Portland State University – 11:30 AM
Washington State University – 11:30 AM
UC Davis – 12:00 PM
UC Santa Cruz – 12:00 PM
Worcester Polytechnic Institute -12:00 PM
Coe College – 12:30 PM
Sonoma State University – 1:00 PM
Texas Tech University – 1:00 PM
DePauw University – 1:30 PM
Arcadia University – 2:00 PM

Wednesday, October 7:
Soka University – 9:00 AM
Illinois Wesleyan University -9:30 AM
Pacific Lutheran University – 9:30 AM
University of Minnesota, Morris – 10:00 AM
American University -11:00 AM
Tulane University -11:00 AM
Denison University – 12:00 PM
Hendrix College – 1:30 PM
Eckerd College – 2:00 PM
Grinnell College – 2:30 PM

Friday, October 9:
University of Hawaii at Manoa – 10:00 AM
University of Minnesota, Morris -11:00 AM
St. Olaf College – 1:15 PM
Butler University – 2:00 PM

An official list with the location of each visit will be posted in front of the Career Center on the morning of October 5.

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Serena Bettis, Editor-in-Chief

Serena Bettis, senior, is entering into her third year on the Etched in Stone staff as this year’s Editor-in-Chief. A four year journalism student, she has high hopes for Etched in Stone this school year, and wants to be able to guide the staff in achieving their goals as much as possible. While Bettis has become a much more outspoken person than she was when she started at Fossil Ridge High School, she still finds discomfort speaking in front of large groups of people (“large” being defined anywhere from 6 to 30), but is more than ready to grow in that aspect of leadership over the course of the year. Most of her journalistic goals for the year are not personal, but rather involve the entire program. She aims to further improve upon the look of the Etched in Stone website, which she spent countless hours on her junior year, enough for it to win awards before she graduates.

Aside from Etched in Stone, Bettis takes part in the school marching, jazz, and concert bands as a flute player, volunteers with Key Club, and is the Historian for the National Honor Society. She has also held a part-time job at TCBY for over a year, and now knows more than she needs to about the sugar content in frozen yogurt. In her spare time, which is often hard to come by, Bettis can be found reading for fun, lamenting about how none of the new Young Adult romance novels she used to love so much are good anymore, working on making the perfect French macaron, or binge watching her recent addiction, Game of Thrones. Music is a large part of her life, and her favorite genre is difficult to describe because she listens to many different bands. Some of her favorites include twenty one pilots, All Time Low, and Halsey, more alternative bands such as Issues and SWMRS, pop artists including Carly Rae Jepsen (“she’s so much more than “Call Me Maybe””), and Little Mix, and various songs by Spanish singers.

She is more than ready for graduation, and aspires to be attending college in Chicago by this time next year. Bettis knows that she wants to double major in journalism and foreign languages, with a potential minor in music, though she is undecided on what specific occupation she wants after college. Her best advice to someone who does not know what they are interested in is to simply join different activities and see what happens from there. “Eventually, sometime during sophomore year, journalism became the only class I wanted to go to, and even now I love it more than I used to love band, so that’s when it hit me that this was what I wanted to be involved in for most of my life,” she said. Another somewhat undecided goal of hers is to join the Peace Corps either during or after college, and she hopes that an experience in a different country with complete strangers might help her figure out what exactly she wants to do with her life.