We are a group of ten juniors and two sophomores who are lucky to have been accepted to be members of the Ivy League Connection (ILC). The ILC gives West Contra Costa Unified School District students the opportunity to attend summer enrichment programs at Ivy League universities.
Through the ILC, the students in our group will be taking courses on either Women and Leadership, International Financial Markets and Investments, or Techniques in DNA-Based Biotechnology at Brown University in the summer of 2010.
Our participation in this program will help prepare us for the rigors of life at selective universities while making us better leaders on our campuses and in our communities.
As we prepare for this adventure, throughout our time at Brown and even after we return we’ll be sharing our experiences and our thoughts through this blog. We hope you can join us and share what we’re going through and learning. Your thoughts and comments will always be welcome and we invite you to add to this blog.
Note: the images used in the above slideshow are from
http://brown.edu/Administration/Photos/photos2.html
and used with the permission of Scott Turner, Director of Web Communications at Brown University.
Megan,
ReplyDeleteYou've already done the hard part: you satisfied the selection board and Brown University that you had the qualifications for this program. From this point forward it's all a piece of cake (this coming from someone who has trouble spelling DNA).
Your class is a cake walk compared to standing in front of a group of 65 strangers and reading your speech in the dark.
You're going to do just fine, Megan, and you're going to have the time of your life.
One time when I was in Colombia, I was so excited for the next day's plane ride back to the U.S. that I literally didn't sleep at all. I was completely miserable the next day while traveling. So at least try to sleep a little...
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