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Being a Retriever Completer
How to Finish Your Degree in 4 Years (or thereabouts)!
Finishing your bachelor’s degree in four years (or a bit longer if your program is extensive) is a worthy goal for many reasons. Here are five of the most compelling: Long-term economic...
October 21, 2014 · 1:19 PM
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A Recipe for Great Letters of Recommendation
There are seven main ingredients! Read on!
Strong letters of recommendation are very important to a student’s likelihood of landing internships, scholarships, admission to graduate and professional schools, and even jobs. But it takes...
October 16, 2014 · 11:23 AM
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NOW is the Right Time to Start Your Resume
Many students mistakenly delay starting their resumes because they believe that they don’t have "real" or so-called "professional" experience. This can be a costly oversight, as many organizations...
October 1, 2014 · 12:15 PM
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Getting to Know Your Academic Advisor
Some Tips, Tricks, and Common Sense Suggestions!
Your academic advisor is a vital member of your support team at UMBC. Often your advisor is a professor in your major department, but could be a professional advisor (full-time advisor).  If you...
September 22, 2014 · 9:39 AM
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Sizing Things Up Over the Summer
Combine summer fun with planning and regrouping!
If you go to a State Fair this summer, like the one in Indiana pictured with this article, have a ball experiencing centrifugal force.  This may even qualify as “experiential learning” of Physics!...
May 20, 2014 · 7:11 PM
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Academic Achievement is Prized at UMBC
Learn the many ways UMBC acknowledges your academic success!
Part of UMBC's campus culture is to give credit and acknowledge outstanding contributions by students at all levels. While recognition takes place throughout the year, there is a special Student...
May 7, 2014 · 3:56 PM
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Opportunity Cost – Not Just for Econ Majors!
How and Why Your Decisions About Money Are Important
According to the Economist on line, opportunity cost is:  "The true cost of something is what you give up to get it.  This includes not only the money spent in buying (or doing) the something,...
April 18, 2014 · 9:06 AM
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Adding Tools to the Toolbox
Tips to Build a Network
Why is networking important? Networking is all about making connections and sustaining mutually beneficial relationships.  Have you ever heard the saying, it's not what you know but who you...
April 17, 2014 · 1:33 PM
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Leap Into Action!
Experiential Learning Empowers Students to Scale New Heights
Experiential learning plays a huge role in the preparation and training of a Navy SEAL (like the 70 foot rappelling challenge depicted here). “Learning by doing” is the primary way these...
March 3, 2014 · 2:37 PM
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The Five Best and Five Worst Ways to Use Social Media
HINT: Facebook is not the only or the best game in town!
Privacy experts say that anything you post digitally to the internet lives forever in some form. Does that thought concern you?  If so, read on! We all know that it’s probably not a good idea...
February 12, 2014 · 3:00 PM
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