Have you taken an honest look at yourself in the mirror lately and evaluated your progress towards your calling? Do you even have criteria for self-evaluation? What does success mean to you?
Jeff Brenzel, the Dean of Undergraduate Admissions at Yale, wrote an imaginary commencement address (Bill Clinton gave the real one) for the Huffington Post, where [...]

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The Acton Scholars, Class of 2010, graduated on Sunday, May 2. Below is the speech Jeff Sandefer delivered to honor the extraordinary achievements of this year’s class.
Well, you made it. Today is the end of a long hard road. And we accept that you have to leave and we accept that you are going to [...]

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With Pre-Matriculation quickly approaching, I’ve had the chance to re-read over my favorite Acton notes. One of them, “An Introduction to the Journey of Personal Transformation,” is assigned during the first week.

Acton provides a curriculum that is designed to help students find their “calling.” This process includes the difficult, but rewarding, journey of personal [...]

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As the new Acton class ventures into their first weeks of Pre-Matriculation, we are once again pulling the all-important Acton notes for them to read. My favorite: “Stars & Steppingstones: Some choices only come around once.”  Consider this excerpt from the note:
Life is a journey, not a destination. But this does not mean that life [...]

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