Registration as a freshman is tough! All of the classes are new, the system is new, and you’ve never done it before. It can be a lot to take in. It’s important to get to know your tools. The primary sites I’ve used this fall are Degree Works, Schedule Explorer, and Schedule Planner. Degree Works… Read More Freshman Registration: A How-To
Bill Offutt, an Honors College academic advisor, recently hosted an informational session on the upcoming Honors classes for next semester. At this event, the professors from each featured class introduced themselves, gave a brief description of their qualifications, and went over the basics of their course. They talked about how their class relates to different… Read More Get That Class! Honors Courses for Spring 2023
By Evan Altman ‘23 Everyone, including myself, gets nervous when thinking about applying to their first internship. April and May is always a stressful time for students. You have to worry about finding an internship for the summer while also juggling finals. This spring, the Honors Advisory Board hosted an intern panel composed of honors… Read More What I Learned From the Honors Intern Panel
by: Joe St. Pierre ‘25 POV: it’s 1757 and you’re in the thick forests of Pennsylvania, negotiating land claims and secretly plotting to sabotage one of your colleague’s reelection campaigns. Or how about this: it’s June 1968 and you’re protesting the Vietnam War outside the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Or POV: it’s present-day at… Read More Honors Course Highlight: American Reacting to the Past
By Isabella Coraci ‘25 At Pace, every Honors freshman is required to take an Honors learning community if they do not have enough college credits to be considered a transfer student. A learning community is two classes that are paired together with subject matter that is related and the same students take both classes. It… Read More Honors Learning Community Spotlight
By Griffin Lalli ‘24 As an Honors student, I must take one Honors course per semester. As I was looking through the wide array of Honors classes that the Honors College offered last semester, I saw that Dr. Welty was teaching a class called “The Artist as the Activist” and I knew I had to… Read More Honors Course Experience: “The Artist as the Activist”
by Amy Yarygina ‘25 In high school, I was never able to experience working in a laboratory at a college level because my AP Chemistry class was online during the pandemic. Instead, I had to create a project of laboratory protocols and memorize them two weeks before my AP exam. Therefore, I was looking forward… Read More BIO 101 Lab Experience for an Honors Student
By Justin Wong ‘25 Hello, potential future Honors College peers! My name is Justin Wong, and I’m currently a freshman in the Honors College, majoring in Behavioral Neuroscience and minoring in Women & Gender Studies. My pronouns are he/him/his, I’m originally from Basking Ridge, NJ, and am currently tutoring at the NYC Learning Commons in… Read More The Benefits of Being in Honors
by Shadman Rahman ’24 Starting a new semester online gave me flashbacks to my freshman year. After spending my entire first year online and getting a taste of one semester in person, it seemed like a step back to be back online. It was a simple reminder that the pandemic was still ongoing and, at… Read More Starting a New Semester Online and the Transition to In-Person
by Greyson Corley ’23 When deciding what college I wanted to attend I often considered what options would be best to set me on a path of success that I felt was right. I knew that I wanted to do something that involved writing, but I also felt like I would need to do something… Read More Combined Degree Program Experience: Publishing