OMSA Graduate and Professional School Application Workshop Part 1: Ease Some Stress Out of Your Life

A 1966 Time Magazine article explored the "graduate school squeeze," a colorful illustration of the sudden necessity for students to pursue graduate studies in order to remain competitive members in an American Society. The impetus resulted from some problems that today's students don't necessarily have to face: an insurgence of baby boomers flooding into undergraduate schools, the "threat" of Selective Service, and an increase in vocational expectations in lieu of shaping students ready to compete in a globalized economy--but there is one common denominator that always seems to transcend time, and that is that unholy entity-- stress.

Decades ago, applying to Graduate School was just as daunting:

• "My fate depends on a couple of people sitting in an office 2,000 miles away," says a Yale senior. Vanderbilt Senior Robert Thiel worked three days on his application to Yale, including a five-page essay and translation of a long English paragraph into German and French, got a one-sentence rejection. He spent five hours on his Stanford application, got a two-paragraph form rejection."
  
• "I really don't feel prepared to do anything with this liberal arts education," says one Yale senior who has applied at law schools. "You've just got to go to graduate school." Another contends that "the pressure is parental—and it almost killed me." He finally said "To hell with it" and joined the Peace Corps. "
  
• "Harvard also took the applicant who pleaded in the margin: "Help me!"...He dropped out after one term."

You don't have to cry for help, or join the Peace Corps (unless you really want to) OMSA's got you covered.

Graduate School and Professional School Application Workshop

5710 S. Woodlawn Ave. January 20th, 2011
5:00pm - 7:00pm

Let's help the article written about Graduate Students 50 years from now be a little less dismal. Shall we?

-Aaron Talley
-Class of 2013, 5710 Student Intern

Black Hertiage Celebration Book Review!

Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Trumpet of Conscience

January is the beginning of the University of Chicago’s Black Heritage Celebration. The celebration kicks off with the annual MLK Commemoration Service (http://mlk.uchicago.edu/) Friday, January 14th, 2011 at 3:30pm at Rockfeller Chapel.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the one of the biggest advocates in the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize. If you are interested in some of Dr. King’s work you can check out some of our resources in our collection at 5710 Woodlawn, including King’s book The Trumpet of Conscience.

One of King’s five books The Trumpet of Conscience, which features a Forward by Coretta Scott King, was a call for a nonviolent revolution and his final statement on racism, poverty, and war. Just before his death, Martin Luther King realized that no threat to human dignity anywhere in the world could be excluded from his crusade. He committed himself to battle all facets of the enemy—racism, poverty, and war. In this, his final statement, the issues remain vital—the impasse in race relations, the neglect of inner cities, the moral deterioration of our society through the war, the corruption of our values by acts of destruction. King argues that protest marches and sit-ins are not powerful enough to uproot entrenched evil and that mass civil disobedience must be the next tactic to force profound and necessary change.

MLK Commemoration Service 2011!

Begin the University of Chicago’s Black Heritage Celebration with the MLK Commemoration Service!



The University of Chicago will be commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with several on campus events. The speaker for this year’s activities will be Judith Jameson, American dancer, Choreographer, and Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.



Judith Jameson is a legendary icon in the world of performing arts. Ms. Jameson began her dance efforts at the age of 6 and began her education at Fisk University at the age 15. In 1965 Jamison moved to NYC to join the Alvin Ailey Company where she became a principal dancer for the company. Ms. Jameson was appointed Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater in 1989 at the request of her mentor, Alvin Ailey, who personally chose her to succeed him. In her two decades at the helm of one of the most respected dance companies in America, Ms. Jameson has successfully kept the Alvin Ailey brand alive.

Weekly Schedule: January 10 - 16

Friday, January 10

Winter Career Fair
Presented by: Career Advising & Planning Services
12:00 – 4:00 PM
Cloister Club of Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th Street

What it’s Like to be an Associate Editor in Publishing: A conversation with Anna deVries, Associate Editor at Scribner
Presented by: Career Advising & Planning Services
2:00 – 4:00 PM
Room 203, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th Street

Monday, January 13

Kuvia Winter Festival Day 1
All day
2nd floor, Henry Crown Field House, 5550 South University Avenue

Interview Prep
Presented by: Career Advising & Planning Services
4:30 – 5:30 PM
East Lounge of Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th Street

GradUCon Conference Deadline Monday, January 10!

The deadline for GradUCon will be Monday, January 10. Register online here.

GradUCon is THE conference designed for current graduate students in the arts and sciences, and recent alumni of graduate programs at the University of Chicago. This conference includes expert panels on a variety of topics related to graduate student life, as well as personal and professional development.

The GradUCon conference will take place on Friday, January 21. Learn more about GradUCon here.