Next week marks the beginning of Summer/Fall registration, so the better-prepared of my advisees have been honoring my request for advising appointments. At these meetings, we discuss their academic futures and, more pressing, their upcoming semester schedules. These talks are also beneficial in that I get to have informal chats with my advisees (some of whom come chat regularly anyway) and therefore get to know them quite well. In fact, last semester my Biology colleagues and I invited all of our freshmen advisees out for pizza, as we were each granted money from the College of Arts and Sciences to have a social gathering with these students. It was great to have so many new students together with the faculty in such a laid back setting. We really got to know eachother!
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Judging by your "pizza-based" advisory meetings and student orientations, it seems that you, your students and your university are a tad more concerned about education than the typical "kegger-based" universities. What a novel concept.
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