Letter from the
editors ...
Welcome back Chumz readers!
We hoped that you had a fun and eventful summer and are ready for another productive school year. Many of you said goodbye to your summer jobs and hello to school with little or no down time in between. Then again, many of you are still wondering “ Summer Jobs — Where Did They Run Off To?” One of our writers offers some insights.
No matter how your summer turned out, we’re sure you will relate to “Oh Man... School Again” because few are ready to return to that familiar grind. Meanwhile some of our alumni writers are adapting to an unfamiliar school grind, called college; so be sure and read this sneak preview of how one of our ex-high school turned college writers is faring at SUNY Albany.
Whether you are in high school or college, the workload can seem overwhelming and never ending. However, it is important to leave some time in your busy schedule to re-energize so that you can be a more productive student. Our “Fun Stuff” column offers many ideas for kicking back and relaxing. Enjoy and Study hard!
The Editors
Joselyn Smith-Greene
Clara Lee
We hoped that you had a fun and eventful summer and are ready for another productive school year. Many of you said goodbye to your summer jobs and hello to school with little or no down time in between. Then again, many of you are still wondering “ Summer Jobs — Where Did They Run Off To?” One of our writers offers some insights.
No matter how your summer turned out, we’re sure you will relate to “Oh Man... School Again” because few are ready to return to that familiar grind. Meanwhile some of our alumni writers are adapting to an unfamiliar school grind, called college; so be sure and read this sneak preview of how one of our ex-high school turned college writers is faring at SUNY Albany.
Whether you are in high school or college, the workload can seem overwhelming and never ending. However, it is important to leave some time in your busy schedule to re-energize so that you can be a more productive student. Our “Fun Stuff” column offers many ideas for kicking back and relaxing. Enjoy and Study hard!
The Editors
Joselyn Smith-Greene
Clara Lee
Chumz Announcement
Chumz presents: “Next Step: Your Dream School?”
Stay tuned for our upcoming college panel discussion
on Saturday, October 29th, on the topic of community
college vs ivy league schools! Our panel includes
graduates of both CUNY's and Ivy Leagues, from
different walks of life, who will be sharing their
personal decisions and college experience. For a high
school senior, learn what your next step could mean,
whether it's a CUNY, a SUNY, or Harvard, Princeton, or
Yale!
Time & Place:
Saturday, Oct. 29th, 1:30pm – 4:30pm
346 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011
Summer Jobs — where did they run off to?
Getting a summer job is getting increasingly harder every year and signs of
improvement and are no where sight. For one reason or another the jobs that were once
seen as just for the teen generation are now almost impossible to get. Even the
minimum wage job at Mc Donald’s has competition. Some blame the economy, some
blame their age, but all can agree that the once simple to get summer jobs that we
used to see on TV are gone. READ MORE
Oh man... School AGAIN!
Man, it’s that time of the year again; when the smell of freshly sharpened
pencils meet the crispness of lined pages waiting to be filled with horrid calculus,
Shakespeare, and history. This routine that we go through every September... when
does it ever stop? READ
MORE
A Change of Pace
One of the first things I noticed about college is that the people here are so
different. There have been so many changes that I had to slow down, because trying to
keep up with everything was overwhelming. I thought high school was culturally diverse,
but this campus really mixes everybody together, which is great. This makes for a very
good learning experience; I’ve met people from Sweden to India and from South
America to Asia. READ
MORE
Check out fun stuff happening in the month of October! Movie, Books, CDs, and Hobbies... more to come!