Parents & Family

Year: 2011

  • Gustavus Internships

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    Internships and Career Explorations are fantastic opportunities to learn new skills and apply academic knowledge in a “real-world” work environment. An added bonus is the academic credit you can receive for your work. These experiences are so valuable that over half of Gusties will do at least one during their time on the hill! Finally,…

  • Gustavus Health Professions

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    The Career Center hosts a Health Professions Fair each year. The fair is designed to showcase a variety of career and academic opportunities in the health professions, science and related businesses to Gustavus students.  Students interested in any health profession (Pre-Med, Pre-Vet, Pre-Pharmacy, Pre-Dentistry, Pre-PT/OT, etc) are encouraged to attend.  The fair will be on…

  • Origami Artist Robert Lang at the Science Museum of Minnesota

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    In partnership with the Science Museum of Minnesota, Gustavus invites you to a public lecture on Thursday, March 10, at 7 p.m. at the SMM Auditorium to meet and hear Rydell Professor Robert J. Lang, Ph.D., physicist and one of the foremost origami artists and theorists in the world. His presentation is titled “From Flapping…

  • Athletics Updates

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    Two Gustavus coaches celebrated milestone victories in January. Women’s hockey coach Mike Carroll pick up his 250th career win against St. Ben’s on Jan. 22. On Jan. 29, women’s basketball coach Mickey Haller earned her 200th win. The Gustie women beat Concordia Moorhead 59–53. Congratulations to both coaches!

  • Important Dates and Events

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    Touring Week (no classes) – January 29-February 6 (Residence Halls remain open) Spring Semester Classes begin – February 7 Online housing contracts due to Residential Life for all returning students – February 15 Late Registration Deadline for classes – February 18 Off-campus housing selection – February 15-17 4-person housing selection – March 8-10 Building Bridges…

  • The College Rhythm in January

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    Many students are away from campus for student-teaching, studying abroad, or internships. This may create a sense of loss for students remaining on campus. There is satisfaction and/or disappointment with first-semester grades. Students may feel loneliness for relationships at home or relief to be back at school.  Because students take one class during January, some…

  • Housing Selection Questions

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    Housing selection for next academic year begins in February, with housing selection for double occupancy rooms, the most prevalent of the options, happening in April and May. The placement of students is dependent on priority number. The priority numbers are randomly distributed within each class of students.  (For example, current junior students would have higher…

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Events

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    Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be celebrated on Monday, Jan. 17, with a public lecture by civil rights movement activist Bernard LaFayette Jr. and a performance of African America by Minneapolis’s Mixed Blood Theatre. LaFayette will give the College’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture in Christ Chapel as part of the College’s…

  • Gustavus Wind Orchestra Tour

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    Under the direction of Douglas Nimmo, the Gustavus Wind Orchestra will tour Minnesota and Wisconsin between the January Interim and Spring Semester. All concerts are free and open to the public. Saturday, Jan. 29, 7 p.m. – Tornstrom Auditorium, Brainerd Sunday, Jan 30, 3 p.m. – Central High School Auditorium, Duluth Monday, Jan. 31, 7…

  • Don’t Meet the Parents!

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    It may be every teenager’s worst nightmare- your parent showing up in the middle of school to complete some unimaginably embarrassing task or bring you some cruelly humiliating object.  What could be worse than that, your past teenage self may ask?  Well, try having it happen at a job interview.  As Dan Finnigan puts it…