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Some of them are under the cut, the rest of them are here!!!

Our friend @maryland-officially (or one of the other 100 Maryland blogs lol) is very good at explaining systems and has a bunch of resources! (like this one for how endogenic systems form!) So if you have any questions, POLITELY ask them!

This blog is gonna be for everyone running around in my head! this post will update a lot lmao

@fnaf-answers has most of the fnaf dudes in the intro post #mike, #william, #jeremyF, #vanessa, #Lizzy, #Cass, #henry, #Charlie, #gregory (some have not talked yet, more of them on the fnaf blog)

@theposttaster has some non-fnaf dudes on the intro post there #ash, #kai, #jeremy2, #sam, #violet (They RARELY talk on here, more of them on their blog)

Jinx (host w/Mike): They/it #jinx

I lost count of how old I was when I hit 200

Shapeshifter.

Can be anything but it always has a shifting galaxy print! (mostly just a blob)

can be a frog, a dragon, or a humanoid!

My parents were the highest-ranked Euclidans on the planet.

I was basically royalty.

The kids I thought I had were just my younger siblings that I had to take care of.

Used to be friends with Bill but the bill in the system is not the same one.

Bill erased my memories of my younger siblings after the fire so we got into a bad fight.

I still don't remember what I looked like back then because I haven't been in that form since the fire.

Constantly tired as the host with Mike.

#Jinx

Mike (Host w/Jinx) He/him #Mike

I was one of the first (and am more connected with Jinx for some odd reason

I'm 56

I'm married to Jeremy Fitzgerald (from the FNaF blog)

Gregory is my son

I have a weird relationship with William

I take care of most of the kids while Jinx makes sure the Adults don't fight.

Shift triggers:

Positive:

Jinx and Mike front to be obsessed w/fnaf

Bill and Jinx front when there is chaos to be created

Dipper or Violet front when there are codes to be cracked

Ford fronts when science Stolas fronts to go apeshit about stars

Negative:

Mike is affected by the sad and more gruesome parts of FNaF lore (It's 50/50 on whether we receive it as positive or negative)

Chara fronts when we need to get away from a dangerous situation or when we are nauseous.

Jax or Blitz front when we need to be an asshole.

Flowey or Kris show up when we need to be detached.

Anyone could be fronting for drama. Even the "nice ones" (there are no nice ones lol)

Zaerrug: An interdimensional Plague Doctor. Jinx's first friend after the argument with Bill. They/them.

#Zaerrug

Chara: Mischievous. NOT EVIL. They have neater hair than Frisk because they were taken care of by Toriel and were royalty. They/them #chara

Kris: Quiet. They are very deadpan when talking to or about anyone or anything other than their friends. Friends with Chara, Frisk, and Susie. Close with Spamton. They/them #kris

Cyn: Creepy... She Has the same voice. It is far too active and keeps trying to physically hurt us. She/it #cyn

Uzi: WON'T STOP FUCKING SCREAMING AND SWEARING. She misses N. HATES CYN. Sarcastic. She/they #uzi

Kinger: A little kooky but bc most of our time is spent in the dark in our room, he has sense sometimes. He misses his wife, tails /ref. He/him. #kinger

Lolbit: Constantly laughing. Very comedic. think the fanmade ucn voicelines. They/them #lolbit

Frisk: Only knows the pacifist route. Friends with Chara and Kris. The soul is separate, like with Kris, but they didn't want it removed because it helped in their route. Genderfluid. Any pronouns #frisk

Azzy: Asriel. small child. Loves Chara so so so so much. He/him #Azzy

Flowey: Same as in the game. not asriel. We don't know where he came from. #Flowey

Sans: So tired he didn't add an intro. Jinx had to. Knows what you did. Has the coolest bro. Has a... complicated relationship with Gaster. He/him (tried to find art he liked of himself but OH GOD) #sans or #UTsans/#UT sans

Deltarune Sans is a different person. He doesn't know nearly as much but is in contact with UT Sans. #sans or #DRsans/#DR sans

Susie: Same as in the game mostly, just a bit less aggressive to most. Has a soft spot for Kris and Lancer. She/they #susie

Jevil: Same as in the game. CHAOS CHAOS! Hates spamton. they/it. #jevil

Spamton: Doesn't have a typing quirk. Acts pretty canon. Knows about snowgrave. Hates Jevil. Close with Kris. He/it #spamton

Hunter: Obsessed with Willow. Mostly the same as the show. He/him #hunter

Amity: LOVES COSPLAYERS and anyone who looks like her because it's so cool! Obsessed with Luz. considers Alador and Darius her parents. She/her #amity

Bill: Same as the show. Aroace (platonic billford but flirty). It/its #bill

Ford: MONSTERFUCKER. Ace (platonic billford but flirty) He/him #Ford

Stan: Exactly like he is in the show lmao. Dating fiddleford, Pansexual. He/him #Stan

Current Fiddleford: A little kooky, VERY VERY GAY, dating Stan, hates Bill, hated his marriage, He/him #Fiddleford

Past fiddleford: Simps so hard for stan (and Ford before that), is jealous of Bill, Ford just went missing, was working with stan to get him back but gave up. Closeted. He/him #fiddleford P

Pomni: Very panicky, has no idea what's going on, Imminently started touching my face when she appeared. dating Ragatha and sees Kinger as her father figure. She has a plushie from Ragatha (not pictured) She/her #Pomni

Ragatha: GAY GAY HOMOSEXUAL GAY (pansexual). dating pomni. Will kill a hoe for the ppl she cares about. Has been so aggressive sometimes that Jax better be grateful he can't die. Necklace is from ponmi. She/her #ragatha

Jax: Asshole. He/him (secretly liked kaufmo and the bracelets are from him) #jax

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Why every toothbrush you used is probably still around somewhere

It’s easy to leave environmental protection up to governments and businesses and keep environmental activism down to signing angry Facebook petitions about recycling. While signing petitions and putting pressure on companies is incredibly important, and the only way to protect our world and our climate is when governments and companies see this as their responsibility (which is only really likely to happen through civil activism), it is also key that during the meantime, we rethink our habits and their impacts. Small steps make big differences. 

I figured since we were speaking about the issues of plastic consumption in relation to plastic bottles in the last post, I would highlight another huge plastic waste producer which needs to disappear from our daily habits: the plastic toothbrush. 

As mentioned last time, it is easy to - and often supported by the narrative that surrounds us - assume that everything we throw in the bin (especially if it’s in a recycling bin) just simply disappears. This is not the case. It is important to rethink our daily habits - and I know exactly how easy it is to overlook things, or think as them as harmless as they occupy only such a small part of our life. It is difficult to see these things as having the potential to create the huge environmental threat that they do in fact create.

Imma gonna try and keep this short as y’all can guess what a girl is trying to achieve: (use it until it’s finished and then) chuck you plastic toothbrush away and swap it for a sustainable alternative. Why? Because your toothbrush is basically indestructible. A normal plastic toothbrush contains a combination of various different plastics, which are incredibly hard to separate to enable a recycling process. Along with that, your toothbrush also contains a little metal plaque - mostly aluminium and steel - to hold the bristles, which are made out of nylon, onto the plastic. The mess of this materials all melted together is really hard to separate, but for them to be recycled, each of these components must be processed separately. Long story short, the costs of doing this is so high, that most companies and municipalities simply don’t. It is then very simple to follow through and realise that if every human throws away a toothbrush every 1-2 months, and they all end up in landfills to stay there forever, this is creating a huge environmental disaster. 

Now, there are a few alternatives. If you do live in the US, Colgate has a brilliant system where you can send your Colgate products (toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes etc) in a box for them for free and they will dismantle and recycle these products. Earth911 is also an amazing recycling companies, which recycles those things which are usually non-recyclable. However, this does come to a cost. A small box to fill your toothbrushes with costs more than 70 quid. Seeing the effort they put into their recycling schemes and the huge positive impact this has, I do think it’s worth the money, but as a 19 year old starting university in a few months, it is just simply not in the budget.

It is also important to keep in mind that, as amazing as those recycling efforts are, recycling always costs money, energy and resources. It is not the best solution. It is better to not create waste in the first place. So, I just went for the most simple solution, and the cheapest one: I bought myself a bamboo toothbrush that will fully decompose after I am finished with her. (The one I got is this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bamboobrush-Ecological-Toothbrush-sustainable-Biodegradable/dp/B01M19339E/ref=sr_1_2_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1494948890&sr=8-2&keywords=wood%2Btoothbrush&th=1). It feels a bit odd in the beginning but you get used to it! And even the bristles are 100% natural. So is the packaging. It will only decompose away, causing no harm to our planet and those around us. Small swap, huge difference.

- Vanessa Terschluse

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Somehow decided that one of my first projects of the year would be a bit of a character line up of my main fandoms and stories, them being Invader Zim, Osmosis Jones, Songweaver, and Starward Passage, as well as a sort of major story verse belonging to a buddy of mine. So, to start off, IZ, even if I haven't really done much with IZ as of late save for one or two exceptions. (And in no particular order really) Tried to sort of maintain a sense of height difference between each other and mildly body-types and faces. Otherwise, sort of classic IZ heads because I felt better to go with the semi-cheeb look.

Sound [Fandom centered, now semi-retired] Singer and classical musician of sorts. Music ref: Haley Westenra, Lindsey Stirling. Kaleo [Fandom centered, now semi-retired] Talent agent and Sound's manager as well as cousin. Multi-talented and got sass too. Sasha [Crossover] Really eccentric fashion designer. Responsible for designing the elaborate dresses for Sound. Shalimar [Fandom centered, now semi-retired] Information broker as well as head of a ring of Ghost informants. Zephyr [Fandom centered, now semi-retired] Optimistic treasure hunter/explorer and adrenaline junky/daredevil. Bihaan [Fandom centered] Geologist and consultant for multiple resource organizations. Mineral collector too. Lahti [Fandom centered] Informant, generally wanders about while working for Shalimar. Codename Spectre. Coreign [Crossover] Classy hitman working under his adoptive father. Excellent marksman especially. Sonata [Fandom centered] ...People suggested Sound to have a rival. Loves the high life and excitement. Music ref: Vanessa Mae. Ariasia [Crossover] Captain of the Starship Constellation. Does her own thing. Glass [Crossover] Engineered soldier and loyal bodyguard/sentry. Sylliene [Fandom centered] Freelance Detective that works independent and/or elaborate crime cases. Izzie [Crossover] Young child adopted by Kurt(belonging to @cudsandhugs) with potential for music. Raziel [Crossover] Vigilante sort of guy, who handles corruption and bigger crimes. Older brother to Senzo(belonging to Thotoh) Isabelle [Crossover] Profiler and psychologist, works as an independent specialist. Sehkmetir [Crossover] Brother to Ariasia. Works as a bounty hunter, using animals to help him capture said bounties. Noah [Crossover] Serves and lives under Blue(Belonging to @projecthalfbreed) while being best friends with Kid(Belonging to @projecthalfbreed) Renaiya [Crossover] Mother to Noah. Lived as a consort, sort of, before being freed and allowed to find her son again. Kaeden [Crossover] Thieving lil shit. Aggressively defensive, but means well. Wanders about stealing for a living. Rhys [Crossover] Cool bartender and owner of a club. Uses the club as a low-key information ring. He's blind too. Leodis [Crossover] Mercenary for hire, specializes in kidnapping, weaponry, and strategic planning.

*Key: 'Fandom-centered' means they were originally made as a fan characters. 'Semi-Retired' meaning they're active but not in IZ or just not quite active at the moment. 'Crossover' means they aren't originally fancharacters and were drawn for IZ for one reason or another.

*Note: Little tidbits seen here, especially for some crossovers, are within this universe and can vary in other AUs/Stories. Differences make things interesting I'd say!

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YCBK 127: The End of Colleges as We Knew It?

In this episode you will hear:

(11:36) In this week’s news segment, an article from The New York Times, “The End of College as We Knew It”, by Frank Bruni.  The public is skeptical that courses of study like the humanities and social sciences lead to jobs. This is making colleges drop these courses because the demand is just not there. We discuss the deleterious impact this will have on society because these subjects are foundational for us to live in a more humane society where we understand each other.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-college-humanities.html

  (30:39) We are in Chapter 127 of 171 Answers and we discuss whether paying for college is the student’s responsibility or the parent’s.

  (49:20) This week’s question from a college counselor in North Carolina and she wants to know how Mark advises his students to answer the new question on the common application about COVID-19.

  (01:07:53) Mark concludes his interview with Vanessa Didyk, CEO of Zeemee, a company that let’s students share their stories and connect with college communities.

  (01:15:44) Recommended resource: The Book; Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions.” Jeffrey Selingo

  (01:25:44) College spotlight: Morehouse College

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The Opinion Pages | OP-ED COLUMNIST Lifting Kids to College Frank Bruni APRIL 26, 2017 Continue reading the main storyShare This Page Share Tweet Email More Save 44 Photo Sierra Williams, a student at University of Southern California, was enrolled in the Neighborhood Academic Initiative. Credit Brad Torchia for The New York Times LOS ANGELES — If you go by the odds, Sierra Williams shouldn’t be in college, let alone at a highly selective school like the University of Southern California. Many kids in her low-income neighborhood here don’t get to or through the 12th grade. Her single mother isn’t college-educated. Neither are Sierra’s two brothers, one of whom is in prison. Her sister has only a two-year associate degree. But when Sierra was in the sixth grade, teachers spotted her potential and enrolled her in the Neighborhood Academic Initiative, or N.A.I., a program through which U.S.C. prepares underprivileged kids who live relatively near its South Los Angeles campus for higher education. She repeatedly visited U.S.C., so she could envision herself in such an environment and reach for it. She took advanced classes. Her mother, like the parents or guardians of all students in the N.A.I., got counseling on turning college into a reality for her child. Sierra, 20, just finished her junior year at U.S.C. An engineering major, she’s already enrolled in a master’s program. “My end goal is to get my Ph.D.,” she told me when I met her recently. She wants to be a professor and, through her example as a black woman in engineering, correct the paucity of minorities in the field. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story It’s now some two decades since the first class of seniors in the N.A.I. graduated from high school and went on to college. More than 900 kids have used the N.A.I. as an on ramp to higher education — more than a third of them ended up at U.S.C. — and that number is growing quickly as the N.A.I. expands. Photo More than 900 kids, including Vanessa Zelaya, center, have used the N.A.I. as an on ramp to higher education, and more than a third of them ended up at U.S.C. Credit Brad Torchia for The New York Times The public school that many N.A.I. enrollees attend, the Foshay Learning Center, was responsible for more new arrivals on the U.S.C. campus last fall than any other public or private high school in America. Nineteen N.A.I. alumni started as freshmen; 11 more transferred from other colleges. And N.A.I. doesn’t even represent the whole of U.S.C.’s efforts to address inadequate socioeconomic diversity at the country’s most celebrated colleges. Although U.S.C. has often been caricatured as a rich kids’ playground — its nickname in some quarters is the University of Spoiled Children — it outpaces most of its peers in trying to lift disadvantaged kids to better lives. Those peers should learn from its example. According to a recently published study whose data was just a few years old, 38 of America’s top colleges, including five from the Ivy League, had more students from families in the top 1 percent of income earners (about $630,000 annually and above) than from those in the bottom 60 percent ($65,000 and below). There are many reasons, principally a failure to identify and recruit disadvantaged kids whose abilities and accomplishments make them perfectly eligible for elite colleges with low acceptance rates. (U.S.C.’s is now about 16.5 percent.) But we also don’t make enough disadvantaged kids eligible in the first place. We don’t guide them through elementary, middle and high school so that they have the necessary grades, scores, skills and mind-sets. This is the problem that U.S.C. has been focusing on: University administrators figure that they can’t just wait for public education to improve and should use some of their considerable resources to chip in themselves somehow. “We’re not doing a good job in K-12 schools,” C. L. Max Nikias, the president of U.S.C., said to me recently. “The pipeline is not there. I feel that puts more responsibility on our shoulders to improve the raw material for us.” Photo At N.A.I., the first class every day is taught in a room on U.S.C.’s campus, so that college is demystified for students like Jessica Hernandez-Flores, center. Credit Brad Torchia for The New York Times At an event in Washington on Wednesday, he plans to urge more colleges to form partnerships with K-12 schools. “I don’t know what is holding them back,” he said. Many are already doing at least a bit of work along those lines, and the importance of continuing these projects, expanding them and exporting them to colleges that lag behind can’t be overstated. Some schools host summer programs for disadvantaged kids. Some send their students and even their faculty members into the communities around them to teach, tutor or mentor needy kids. Some have been instrumental in the establishment of community centers for those kids. But what U.S.C. has done stands out. In addition to the N.A.I., it has been involved in the establishment of three charter high schools serving low-income neighborhoods in its general geographic area. The first of these, U.S.C. Hybrid High, was set in motion by the U.S.C. Rossier School of Education. Last year’s seniors were Hybrid High’s first graduating class. All 84 were accepted into four-year colleges. The second charter, U.S.C. East College Prep, is in its second year, so it has only freshmen and sophomores. The third, U.S.C. College Prep Santa Ana, has only freshmen. Meantime there are hundreds of kids from the sixth through 12th grades in the N.A.I. During high school, their first class every day is taught in a room on U.S.C.’s campus, so that college is demystified and becomes a fixed part of their vocabularies. They head back to campus on Saturdays for special classes and enrichment activities. And they must have a parent or guardian willing to come to campus for separate sessions. Photo An N.A.I. class on the campus of U.S.C. Credit Brad Torchia for The New York Times One recent weekday morning I sat in on an A.P. English class that a Foshay Learning Center teacher was holding in a room at U.S.C. Her 31 students were all in the N.A.I. All were minorities. Almost all spoke up readily and repeatedly as they discussed aspects of the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” including themes that connected it to another book they’d recently read, “Middlemarch.” Sign Up for the Opinion Today Newsletter Every weekday, get thought-provoking commentary from Op-Ed columnists, the Times editorial board and contributing writers from around the world. Sign Up Receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. SEE SAMPLE MANAGE EMAIL PREFERENCES PRIVACY POLICY “Freedom means … what?” said the teacher, Jacqueline Barrios, and in this instance she answered her own question. “The ability to have a voice. To think for yourself.” Photo Sergio Lopez, a student at N.A.I., will be the first among his parents and siblings to finish high school. Credit Brad Torchia for The New York Times ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story During a pause, I asked the students how many had a parent who had graduated from college. Only four hands went up. I asked how many would be the first in their families, including siblings, to enroll in college. Eighteen of the kids raised their hands. One was Sergio Lopez, 17. He later told me that he’d be the first among his parents and siblings even to finish high school. His dad, a mechanic, immigrated from Guatemala and his mom, a homemaker, from Honduras. 44 COMMENTS Sergio was just accepted into U.S.C. and will head there next fall, joining a student body that isn’t as lopsided with the 1 percent as many other elite colleges are. According to that study, 13.9 percent of U.S.C.’s students are in that bracket, while 21.9 percent are from the bottom 60 percent of family incomes. He told me that any nerves he might have felt about college, especially as a first-generation college student, are allayed by how familiar U.S.C.’s environs have become. “It got comfortable,” he said, adding that an N.A.I.-assigned mentor at U.S.C. has given him tips on how best to study: Ditch the dorm for the library, which has fewer distractions. That may be a no-brainer for some kids. For others, nothing about college is obvious — or inevitable.

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YCBK 126: Colleges Are Deluding Themselves on Safe Reopen

In this episode you will hear:

(06:13) In this week’s news segment, an article from The Atlantic, “Colleges Are Deluding Themselves”, by Michael Sorrell.  The President of Paul Quinn College, Sorrell, makes the case on why colleges should not cloud their judgement on reopening this fall, based on financial and reputational worries.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/colleges-that-reopen-are-making-a-big-mistake/611485/

  (34:33) We are in Chapter 126 of 171 Answers and Mark discusses the repayment options for federal loans and why it is important to communicate with your loan service provider.

  (49:08) This week’s question is from Larissa in Colorado. How important should the salary data for graduates be, when I am evaluating colleges?

  (01:00:46) Mark continues his interview with Vanessa Didyk, CEO of Zeemee, a company that let’s students share their stories and connect with college communities. This is part 3 of 4

  (01:06:50) Recommended resource:  The website: https://joinpack.app/

This website lets you know what the fall re-opening plans are for almost 300 colleges. It is updated multiple times in one day

  (01:17:13) College spotlight:  Virginia Tech University (https://vt.edu/)

  Don't forget to send your questions related to any and every facet of the college process to: questions@yourcollegeboundkid.com

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[markstucker]

YCBK 125: New Evidence Documents that College Degrees Pay Off- By A Lot

In this episode you will hear:

(13:25) In this week’s news segment, an article from Forbes.com, “New Evidence Documents That A College Degree Pays Off – By A Lot”, by Michael Nietzel.  The College Board has published its latest report about the economic benefits of higher education, showing the strong correlation between more education and larger earnings.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2020/01/15/new-evidence-documents-that-a-college-degree-pays-off-by-a-lot/#2e2665863a98

  (31:02) We are in Chapter 125 of 171 Answers and Mark describes the ways in which federal loans are better than private student loans.

  (58:32) It is time again for bonus content and Mark walks us through how to use LinkedIn to search schools and find out where their graduates are being hired. He also shows us what degrees are the most common from each institution. Finally, Mark shows us how you can research a company you are interested in and you can learn where they are hiring from. Mark believes that LinkedIn is a gold mine and that it should be part of the college research that every students and parent does.

  (01:20:29) Mark continues his interview with Vanessa Didyk, CEO of Zeemee, a company that let’s students share their stories and connect with college communities.

  (01:28:42) Recommended resource: A great article by Shannon Insler of Student Loan Hero on the 8 best private student loans.  https://studentloanhero.com/featured/best-private-student-loans/

(01:37:18) College spotlight: Rose Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. (https://www.rose-hulman.edu/)

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Every episode of Your College-Bound Kid will align with a chapter from the book 171 Answers to the Most-Asked College Admission Questions. To get a copy go to Amazon and click: https://smile.amazon.com/171-Answers-Most-Asked-Admission-Questions/dp/0692953477/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=171+answers&qid=1568305805&s=books&sr=1-1

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[markstucker]

YCBK 124: Brown University Cuts 11 of Its Varsity Sports

In this episode you will hear:

(21:49) In this week’s news segment, an article from Providence Journal, “Brown University Will Cut 11 of Its Varsity Sports”, by Bill Koch.  150 student athletes and 7 coaches will be impacted by Brown’s decision to cut 11 of its varsity sports for the 2020-2021 academic year. The decision will result in roughly $500,000 to reallocate to the university’s budget. Mark and Dave discuss multiple reasons why Brown may have been prompted to make this decision.

  https://www.providencejournal.com/sports/20200528/brown-university-will-cut-11-of-its-varsity-sports

  (39:02) We are in Chapter 124 of 171 Answers and Mark gives 15 reasons why the Federal Direct Loan is unquestionably the best loan that almost all students are eligible for. Mark and Anika go one by one and briefly discuss all 15 of these reasons.

  (01:05:15) This week’s question is from Brendan in Atlanta and he wants to know if it ever makes sense to ask a college faculty member at a school that you are applying to, to write a letter of recommendation on your behalf. Mark answers this question but he also shares some other ways to tap into a faculty member you may know at a school you are applying to.

  (01:18:34) Mark kicks off his interview with Vanessa Didyk, CEO of Zeemee, a company that let’s students share their stories and connect with college communities. Zeemee is an incredible service for prospective students and current students.

  (01:29:35) Recommended resource: The book, “The College Stress Test”

(01:38:44) College spotlight: Union College in Schenectady, NY  (https://www.union.edu/)

  Don't forget to send your questions related to any and every facet of the college process to: questions@yourcollegeboundkid.com

If you enjoy our podcast, would you please do us a favor and share our podcast both verbally and on social media? We would be most grateful!

We are excited to give our listeners a chance to play a role in shaping what topics we discuss, so please send us your ideas for college spotlights, articles for discussion and recommended resources. You can let your voice be heard by completing this survey. Just put the following link in your browser and give us your honest feedback. We thank you in advance.

https://tinyurl.com/YourCollegeBoundKid

Every episode of Your College-Bound Kid will align with a chapter from the book 171 Answers to the Most-Asked College Admission Questions. To get a copy go to Amazon and click: https://smile.amazon.com/171-Answers-Most-Asked-Admission-Questions/dp/0692953477/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=171+answers&qid=1568305805&s=books&sr=1-1

  If you want to place a bulk order, you will save money by purchasing this book at 171answers.com. Every penny goes to The Atlanta Mission, a Christian organization that helps over 1000 homeless residents every day.  If you want to see what future episodes will discuss in the book chapter section,  just go to 171answers.com and then click the red button "See exactly what 171 Answers covers"

Check out this episode!