Mark your calendars! Join the Graduate School and Career Center for “Ready to Resume: Resumes That Get The Job” workshop on Wednesday June 11, 2014 in the Career Center. Please be in your seat by NOON. The workshop will walk students through effective resume styles; teach them how to maximizing their work experiences and highlight unique skill sets…
Category Archives: Environmental Studies
10 Lessons I Learned In My First Year about Graduate School
10 Lessons I Learned In My First Year Of Grad School 1. I might be able to still pull all-nighters but I do not nearly enjoy them as much. In undergrad, I’d have a genuine sense of accomplishment after I pulled an all-nighter. And I pulled several to the point it was the norm, not…
Library Improvement Summer Project 2014
Please take note of the important dates and associated activities as the library undergoes a significant improvements this summer. IMPORTANT DATES: 5/3/14 – 2nd & 3rd Floors closed. Special Collections closed. Book Stacks unavailable until August 18. Faculty Resource Room closed. 8/18/14 – Estimated completion date. All floors open, all collections available, all departments open…
New Years Resolutions for Graduate Students
The most popular New Year’s resolutions aren’t always practical for graduate students. Often we need to set the bar a little lower to accommodate our unusual lifestyles. Plus, many of the most common resolutions just can’t be top priority until we get a life we’ve moved on with our lives. For the moment, we’ve…
Life at Versailles: A day in the life of Whitney Adams
During my last semester in the English Graduate Program at the College of Charleston, I applied for and was awarded the Versailles Fellowship. Although I would be pushing my graduation date forward an extra year, spending a year teaching in France outweighed any apprehension I had about graduating late. Yes, thats me at the…
Three CofC Peace Corps Volunteers Survive Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) in Philippines
College of Charleston Peace Corps Masters International graduate students Laura Mudge, Andrew Wynne and Tyler Hassig survived one of the strongest Typhoons (we call them hurricanes) ever to hit land. The three are part of an innovative Peace Corps program in which the students take advanced courses first at the College, and then pursue a…
ExCel Awards
So many times in an effort to make everyone feel special, we overlook the need to recognize those among us who go that extra mile, who make it a point to be there for those around them, who frankly make our lives a little brighter and better. The College of Charleston offers a program that…
Studying Abroad in Morocco
Salam wa lakum and thank you College of Charleston for allowing me to share my experiences as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar to Morocco. I want to let readers know how study abroad is not just for undergraduates, we can achieve things that we would never in a million years imagine ourselves doing. BE READY TO…
Graduate Student Creates First High-Res Maps of Deep Sea Reefs
Matthew Rittinghouse, a Master of Environmental Studies (MES) student at the College of Charleston, is spending part of his summer creating the first-ever high-resolution map of deep reefs near the island of Roatan in Honduras. Dr. Peter Etnoyer, a marine ecologist at NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, directed Rittinghouse and the crew…
The Graduate School Fall Orientation 2013
BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND. Graduate Orientation is that place where newly admitted Graduate Cougars start their careers by receiving comprehensive introduction to CofC. Orientation is open to all graduate students admitted for the Fall 2013 semester. As new students, you will take the first step to Master your Future during orientation, where you…