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Picture this – you're a struggling young design engineer with a couple of hot ideas up your sleeve. One evening, you're out for a stroll on the beach when you bump right into Paul Comey, Vice President of Environmental Affairs for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters.  Excited by this lucky turn of events, you tell him about your concept for machine that disassembles K-Cup coffee containers for easy recycling. Not only does he love the idea, but he wants you to present a prototype at the next company board meeting.
Only trouble is, that's just five short days away.

“You Can’t Judge A Book By It’s Cover”
While this cliché can be applied to a great number of situations in life, it shouldn’t necessarily be applied to the experience of visiting a college campus. Even still, you may arrive at a campus and feel that you are being forced into just “judging the cover” of the campus, especially when going on a guided, preplanned tour. Here are a few ways to make this best of this sort of situation.

Major: History
Year: Senior, Class of 2008
Hometown: Castleton
Honors: Editor-in-Chief, The Vermont Cynic; Honors College; John Dewey Honors Program
NU:What does a typical day look like for you?
ED: I usually wake up around 10 a.m. And then my day always starts with a big cup of coffee – always. Beyond that? There's the usual assortment of email-checking and facebooking, classes, time at the newspaper office – usually too much time – and I keep odd hours so I start my homework and reading around 10 p.m. I'm usually asleep by 2 a.m.

Going to college can create a lot of opportunities for you that may not have been available otherwise. New friends, new knowledge, new experiences, a degree –– they all put you in contact with more of the world than you could ever imagine.
Maybe you have had your heart set on college since you were a little kid and maybe you haven’t, but either way putting yourself in place to make it an option will be a move that changes your life. It’s going to require good, hard work, but the payoff will be tremendous.

These days, the stress around applying for college can be overwhelming.
As a college-bound student, you are required to take standardized tests, think about what college you might want to attend, what you want study there, make sure you fill out all of the application paperwork correctly and then, figure out how to pay for it all. Whew!

Why Foreign Languages Are Important
More jobs than you may think consider foreign languages a great skill to have and that number is increasing every day. What does that mean for you?? Your high school French or Spanish could turn into valuable $$$.
Past-perfect versus imperfect.
Direct or indirect object pronouns.
Hambre or hombre? Schon or schön? Mon ami or ma ami?
If you’ve ever struggled with learning a foreign language, take heart: you are not alone.

If you thought the fundamentals of Calculus would never show you the world outside the classroom, you’ve probably never heard of Essex’s Colin Sandon.

Are you starting to feel the pressure of the college search? Take a deep breath...there's a school out there for you, including many great options in Vermont, public and private. Here are seven tips from UVM admissions counselors to help you successfully negotiate the admissions process and find the right match.

Focus on your transcript. Your GPA and overall academic record are the most important factors in the admissions decision – at UVM and many other schools. So focus on your grades – and be sure they're on an upward trend, especially over the last two years.

by Thomas Leavitt (President  & CEO of Northfield Savings Bank) and John Pelletier (Director, Center for Financial Literacy at Champlain College)

Is high school the best time of your life? Some adults think so. That’s probably because when we graduate, many of us leave home to live on our own and start taking on new responsibilities. 

by Michelle Szabo, Instruction Program Manager, Stern Center for Language and Learning

The NEW SAT arrived in March 2016 – are you ready? There have been a number of substantial changes and revisions to the SAT, and it goes well beyond the kinds of questions asked and how the test is scored. While there may be fewer overall questions asked, the depth of each section is significantly greater.