Practicing Gratitude

It’s that time of year again. We’re all getting back into the swing of things, creating schedules and committing to after school activities and tutoring sessions and sports and hobbies and plans for academic excellence and being Better-Than-We’ve-Ever-Been-Before. It’s an aspirational season! And yet, it’s also a season when we can become Human Doings instead of Human Beings. For me, the month of September is simultaneously one of the most exciting and most upsetting months of the year to be mentoring our students…

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Elisabeth Gray
Success in Admissions

It’s been several weeks since we’ve snapped into a different tempo from the summer; it’s late fall, the early admissions deadline for colleges having come and gone and Thanksgiving’s around the corner.

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Elisabeth Gray
A Note on Mindfulness

It’s that time of year again. We’re all getting back into the swing of things, creating schedules and committing to after school activities and tutoring sessions and sports and hobbies and plans for academic excellence and being Better-Than-We’ve-Ever-Been-Before. It’s an aspirational season! And yet, it’s also a season when we can become Human Doings instead of Human Beings. For me, the month of September is simultaneously one of the most exciting and most upsetting months of the year to be mentoring our students…

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Elisabeth Gray