Advising and Lifting Up

 


After two weeks of a heavy, oppressive workload and some bad news about the death of a mentor, I needed a day like the 183rd day of 2022.  I spent a lot of 7/2/2022 on Zoom.  But, Adam (you say), that sounds like what you do every day.  But today was different.  None of these were work meetings, they were five advising sessions for my advisees in the Class of 2026 at Penn.  Looking at my spreadsheet, I only have three more to go and, you know what, that makes me a little sad.  No, not really, but I DO have to say that speaking with students about their plans and helping them navigate Penn and its systems and practices does lift me up.  My Two for 2022 is Advising and Lifting Up.  I am so happy that the College allows me to be a Pre-Major advisor and I am so grateful for my advisees' questions, candor, and just downright inquisitiveness.  In a world where hope is hard to find sometimes, I am glad to be talking to young people who have their whole world ahead of them, and are filled with hope.  They lift me up.

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