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ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS
Wide range of options available for new graduates
BY CLAIRE MCINERNY editor@kansan.com
As some seniors are preparing for jobs and planning their lives after school, some students are experiencing a different scenario: the end of college panic.
Four years of classes and one degree later, some students do not know what they want to do post-college, and instead of turning right to the next class.
er. One opportunity that enables students to make that happen is through Teach for America. Teach For America is a program that allows recent college graduates to teach in public schools in low-income communities. The assignment lasts for two years.
Gina Littlejohn, the campus campaign coordinator for Teach For America, said the program accepts people of all majors, and apa way to prolong having to find a job, but rather look at it as a way to find new opportunities and new ways for students to use their passions. She said a lot of politicians who now work in Congress were in the program and are now fighting for education rights.
PEACE CORPS
Like Teach For America, the Peace Corps is another wav for
Wiechman spent his two years in Saint Lucia doing community development. He helped a farmers' cooperative develop a grant proposal to get funding for a composting project from the United Nations and also taught reading and music at a school.
The Peace Corps was an attractive option for Wiechman because he did not have a clear direction for his future at the end of col-
FINALS GUIDE
CAMPUS
The best places to study for finals
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Anschutz Library is one of the popular study spots that fill up during finals week. KU libraries will be open for extended hours during finals week. Anschutz and Spahr libraries will be open 24 hours a day and Watson Library will be open until 3 a.m.
BY KELSEY CIPOLLA editor@kansan.com
In a perfect world, students could study in the comfort of their own rooms without being distracted. In the real world, doing homework
at home means fighting the urge to hang out with roommates, watch TV or simply go to sleep. If that sounds like a battle homework is destined to lose, consider looking for a new study spot on campus.
"I can't study in my room because I have all my stuff to distract me. I usually get up early and take a bus to campus," said Jeff Kitchel, a sophomore from St. Louis.
He avoids group discussion areas, such as the third
floor of Anschutz Library, and looks for relatively empty floors.
sophomore from San Francisco, can focus.
Although a library may seem like an obvious choice, it's the only place that Sabrina Liedke, a
"The fifth floor of Watson is nice because nobody ever wants to go all the way up there, so it's always quiet." Kitchel said.
"I like to study deep, deep into the bowels of Anschutz, in the stacks. You could die down there and nobody would notice. That's how I like to study" Liedtke said.
"I like to study deep, deep into the bowels of Anschutz, in the stacks. You could die down there and nobody would notice."
SABRINA LIEDTKE
Sophomore from San Fransisco
Liedtke said that even the clicking of a pen
it even the clicking of a pen can distract her, so she prefers to go to the most private place she can find.
Liedtke and Kitchel might enjoy going to the empty areas of the library to study, but Patricia Noteboom, assistant director of the Academic Achievement and Access Center, advises students to take a less isolated approach.
"A good study environment is an environment that is well-lit and free of outside distraction but will also allow students to engage in discussion and practice working with the material," said Noteboo
She said that students spend too much time trying to memorize information when research has shown that practicing and recalling what they've remembered is the best way to learn material. Most campus libraries have group
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