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Coming up the week of Oct. 17 is Longwood’s Career Week. It’s a week full of helpful job search-related workshops, opportunities to network with alumni and a career fair.

I was surprised to hear in a meeting this week that many students wait until deep into the spring semester of their senior year to start their job searches.

I’m hoping you can encourage your student to be proactive and take advantage of Career Week. And consider passing along this message from Longwood’s Career Services: “The most successful and least stressful job searches start early!”

Career Week is the perfect time for students to get a head start on writing a killer resume and cover letter, honing their job interview skills, making connections with Longwood alumni working in areas they’re interested in, and finding out what they can do now to get the kind of experience and skills that will land the job they want when they graduate.

Also, please let your student know they can get FREE business cards as part of Career Week. Here’s the order form. The last day to order cards is Oct. 14.

And finally, if your student is home this weekend, it’s a good time for them to grab some business casual/professional clothing to bring to campus for the career fair and networking event.

Details of Career Week are below. No registration is required for students for any of the workshops or other activities.

Monday, October 17, 2022

Walk-in Mock Interviews
9 a.m. – 4 p.m. | Maugans Alumni Center, G04
To make the most of Career Week, students should come to the Office of Alumni and Career Services to practice their answers to common interview questions. These will be first-come, first-serve and will take roughly 30-45 minutes.

Resume and Cover Letter Workshop
4 p.m. | Allen Hall, Room 101
Join us for a Resume and Cover Letter Workshop to prepare yourself to network with alumni and employers during the Career fair on Oct. 20. We will be covering current standards in formatting, appearance, and content, as well as how to highlight your skills and abilities to fit the jobs you want.

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Walk-in Mock Interviews
9 a.m. – 4 p.m. | Maugans Alumni Center, G04
To make the most of Career Week, students should come to the Office of Alumni and Career Services to practice their answers to common interview questions. These will be first-come, first-serve and will take roughly 30-45 minutes.

LinkedIn and Networking Workshop
4 p.m. | Allen Hall, Room 101
Increase your employer visibility and marketability by building a professional, updated, and engaging LinkedIn profile using advice and feedback from industry professionals.

Graduate School Preparation Workshop
6 p.m. | Allen Hall, Room 101
Learn more about how to research and choose a program; get application tips and advice, and assistance in crafting strong personal statements; and gain insight into what graduate school admissions boards are looking for.

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Minority Student and Alumni Networking Session
5-6 p.m. | Rotunda
Longwood Career Services would like to invite all minority students to attend a networking session with fellow alumni and career leaders to learn about their career paths and advice, build relationships and develop their professional network. Following this special session, we will move to the general networking session in the Colonnades from 6-8 p.m.

Alumni, Student, and Employer Networking Event
6-8 p.m. | Colonnades
Build your professional network by connecting with alums across dozens of fields and industries at our student, alumni, employer networking event. A professional cocktail-party style will help you feel comfortable at events in the future as alumni help you build toward your career goals.

Thursday, October 20, 2022

Career, Internship and Engagement Fair
1-4 p.m. | Maugans Alumni Center, Blackwell Ballroom
Join alumni, employers and graduate school representatives at our Career Expo to learn more about how to get the career you want, what top industry players are looking for in new hires, and how you can get a step ahead of other applicants. You’ll be able to take a professional headshot for your LinkedIn profile, develop your professional network and enjoy learning more about companies that want to #HireLancers.

Events and locations are subject to change. For the latest and most up-to-date information, visit the Career Week website: http://go.longwood.edu/careerweek

—Sabrina Brown

It’s important to enjoy real life and not just through social media. Many people are not getting enough real human contact too because they believe they just socialize through apps. Even dating apps can decrease motivation for adults to talk to each other because they believe they can just connect through apps at first. Its important to connect with people in person and not just through online social media.

Having proper nutrition during pregnancy is extremely important for the baby’s growth and survival, but many mothers do not know what nutrients are needed during pregnancy to create a thriving environment for the growing baby. Through this website, I hope to help provide accurate information to what prenatal nutrition should look like along with practical and affordable ways to implement prenatal nutrition in one’s lifestyle. In order to have a healthy pregnancy, women should have an intake of about 300 more calories than normal per day. The calories a pregnant woman gets should be a balance of proteins, fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. These types of foods that provide vitamin A, vitamin D, calcium, potassium, proteins, iron, and folic acid all play a role in the baby’s fetal development, and proving the body with these nutrients helps reduce birth defects, maintain a healthy birth weight, and facilitate good brain development in the baby. Maintaining a healthy diet while pregnant not only gives the baby the necessary nutrients but also may help reduce some pregnancy symptoms for the mother such as nausea, anemia, and constipation. Along with maintaining healthy food choices, it is very important for pregnant women to maintain a fluid intake by drinking lots of water; hydration is especially important for pregnant women because dehydration can put strain on the body and the baby. Prenatal vitamins are also helpful in providing the baby with what it needs to grow and develop, but prenatal vitamins work in addition to a nutritious diet and are not a replacement for a nutritious diet. An example of a nutrient that is especially important during pregnancy is folic acid. Women should be consuming folic acid even before becoming pregnant because folic acid plays a role in reducing neural tube defects, but since neural tube defects occur in the first 28 days after conception, women should be maintaining their folic acid intakes because many mothers are not even aware that they are pregnant in the first 28 days. Folic acid is important in the beginning and throughout the pregnancy, and it is easily found in prenatal vitamins along with some leafy green vegetables, berries, nuts, beans, citrus fruits, and fortified breakfast cereals. Folic acid is just one example of a necessary nutrient in a pregnant woman’s diet, and this along with many other components make up healthy prenatal nutrition and allow the growing baby to thrive in the womb and start its life healthy and happy.

Vulnerability- Teen boys have  shown to have more aggression physically, teen girls have shown to be excluding their peers and saying hurtful comments towards one another. Social media is the perfect place for others to let out their aggression and dislike for one another without the belief of having many consequences. 

Social media can also give a sense of a false reality which only highlights the best of people’s lives and does not show what they truly go through and do throughout their daily life. Many people who are exposed to the ‘lavish life’ people portray on social media, will oftentimes compare their own lives to the lives that are displayed on social media. 

Many teenagers, especially women, often create a false idea of what beauty is based on what they see on social media. This is because social media is filled with people who try to portray the best version of themselves, and they are exposed to people who use photoshop and facetune in order to get the look they want. This then causes a representation of beauty that is unattainable by many, or all people, then creating people to develop body issues, low self-esteem, and sometimes bigger issues such as eating disorders. 

It is also important to know that teens will start using social media around the time they start to become more invested in their peers. Due to social media causing people to feel as if they have a higher social life and others using it as a main form of communication, causing them to pay more attention to how the people they are surrounded by live their lives and what they say or how they communicate. Having the power and the ability to post anything, good or bad, is not the power teens should have because they are too vulnerable to false information and negativity. 

• Get a new hobbies
• Use it as a positive reward
• Avoid sleeping with your phone
• Delete social media apps
• Remove people off the apps that aren’t truly your friends.

Teenage alcohol abuse is on the rise and many people don’t seem to realize how bad it’s getting. I’ve seen kids in elementary school shotgunning beers. Kids, I know middle schoolers who brag about how much they drink. I know many high schoolers freshmen to seniors who are becoming or have become alcoholics. My goal for this website is not to eliminate high schoolers having fun because it is beneficial to learn to drink when you’re a teenager however I want to bring awareness to kids about the dangers of alcohol so that they don’t develop problems or help parents understand the issue so they can try to intervene before their child develops a problem.

I also think it would be good to clarify that I am speaking out about alcohol abuse and binge drinking. I can’t stress enough I want teens to be able to understand safe drinking before being given too much freedom and developing bad drinking habits. I also think if we try to just teach kids not to drink once they start they’re going to develop bad habits. My goal is to help teach teens the dangers of addiction and how to tell you might be developing a problem before it becomes an actual health issue for them.

For this website, I want to share statistics and personal experiences that can shine a light on how to identify alcohol abuse. I will also post videos and links on how to fight and beat alcohol abuse. One trick that is very good to know is understanding we all kick addictions differently. Some people fill their time with healthier habits like working out or cooking. Others like to take it easy and maybe watch movies and read books to focus on something other than drinking. It’s also good to know the 2 types of alcohol addictions. You have alcoholics who can’t go a long time without drinking but, a lot of alcoholics are people who can’t stop drinking once they start. So please take all of this intro information and start trying to look out for friends and family to make sure they don’t develop a problem. 

MY STORY

My first time getting drunk was on a school trip to Guatemala at the end of my freshman year. Over that summer I didn’t drink and I was rarely drinking my sophomore year. However when covid started my friends and I started drinking because there was nothing else to do, and everything was pretty boring since we couldn’t really go anywhere. During my junior year, I would drink a little bit but not an overwhelming amount. During the summer break between my junior year and senior year, I was drinking a lot. If I had to estimate I probably drank about 60% of the days during that break. Most of the time I was by myself. Then during my senior year, I was drinking about twice a month nothing too bad but an increase from my past years. Eventually, people including my parents started to realize how bad my drinking got. Mainly because I was trying to drink my sadness away. My doctor gave me antidepressants and diagnosed me with mild alcohol abuse. My doctor told me I should take a month off from drinking so they could accurately tell how my body reacted to the pills. After that month the pills seemed to be working, I wasn’t feeling as sad as I typically did but it also didn’t stop me from feeling any sadness. However, my life was improving a lot I got to really see how lucky I was at that time. I had a lot to be happy about and realized I was putting people I care about through too much especially my girlfriend of the time. After that month had passed I gave it a little more time but I did know I wanted to start drinking again. When I did I was drinking on more social occasions and I was just happy I wasn’t trying to drown my issues in booze. There are still nights when I might drink too much but I’ve made drastic improvements from where I was. 

I share my story for multiple reasons. One is because of why I’m making these blogs. I want to help people avoid the position I put myself in. It may sound hypocritical since I still drink but I do think it’s good to hear from the perspective of someone who has dealt with a drinking problem. Second I want people to know just because you have a problem doesn’t mean you have to quit forever. Some people are able to relearn safe drinking habits. If you are someone who recognizes you don’t have control and will stay sober forever then good on you’re very self-aware and strong to do that. I just think people should know it’s not black and white when it comes to sobriety. You are the person who knows you best you’re the one who can make the best decision for you, but sometimes it does take the words of our friends and family to help us see what we need more clearly. So remember drinking your problems away will lead to more problems learn to appreciate your life and learn that alcohol is for you to enjoy with your friends.

MY THOUGHTS ON ALCOHOL

I’d like to also make my views on alcohol clear. I feel like with the information I’m presenting I come across as someone who thinks alcohol makes you throw your life away. That is far from the truth. I find alcohol to be a great stress reliever and something fun to do with friends. At the end of the week if you’re stressed and want a break I think drinking with friends is a great way to forget your troubles. However, I’ve also seen the downsides to drinking and it comes when you lose the ability to control your drinking. I’ve been in that situation and at times I still struggle with it. I think alcohol is great but easy to lose control of. I’ve seen many people go from drinking on special occasions to drinking before going to school. The point of this website is not to make alcohol seem like the worst thing in the world but to help people understand it more, especially people who are younger because drinking while your brain is still developing can have really bad effects in the future.

All I am saying is that you have the ability to handle drinking but it is also a substance that is easy to abuse. So be careful when drinking because it can lead down a dangerous road but it can also be helpful in life. Alcohol is like a gamble you can have a very good experience with it but there are many people who can have a very negative outcome from it so be careful. 

From my experience with drinking the best advice, I can give is to drink socially. As basic as it sounds it’s not as easy as it sounds. Its easy to feel in control but being a vigilante is not as simple as it is to be blind to addiction. That is why I preach being smart and vigilant.

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