It’s September in your Senior year, and there are approximately one million tasks to complete this semester as you apply to college or university. This post will serve as your guide to navigate this semester (and hopefully help relieve some stress!).

As an education company, it could be easy to assume that we are only focused on what happens in the classroom, that we want the student to walk away with an “A” and that’s it — our work is done. However, we focus on so much more than that. Of course we love to see quantitative improvement in a student’s score, but we also love giving students opportunities to understand that school is simply an opportunity to grow and develop them for the future. But if we are being honest, it can be hard to see that sometimes.

I’ve always dreamt of being a confident person in every aspect of my life but never thought it was possible. However, living with the growth mindset for the past year has gradually changed my life. What other people say about who I am doesn’t affect what I believe about myself anymore…

From the time I was in my upperclassman years in high school and throughout college, I was very often asked this dreaded question: What are you going to major in at college? It was a question that brought about anxiety and self-doubt. I had no idea. The pressure to have your entire educational and professional career planned out by the time you graduate high school is real. It’s easy to look around and see how everyone else (seemingly) has their life all figured out.