Newly Added GPS Events
Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania
GPS Wed April 8 7pm
Glenbard West auditorium,
670 Crescent Blvd Glen Ellyn
Over the last few decades, Americans have turned
college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process. In
WHERE YOU GO IS NOT WHO YOU'LL BE, Frank Bruni explains why, giving students
and their parents a new perspective on this brutal, deeply flawed competition
and a path out of the anxiety that it provokes. Through statistics, surveys and
the stories of hugely successful people who didn't attend the most exclusive
schools, he demonstrates that many kinds of colleges—large and small—serve as
ideal springboards. And he illuminates how to make the most of them. What
matters in the end are a student's efforts in and out of the classroom, not the
gleam of his or her diploma.OVERWHELMED:How to Work, Love and Play When No One Has The Time
Monday, May 11 noon-1:30pm
Marquardt Admin
Center, 1869 Glen Ellyn Rd.
Glendale Heights
Washington Post award -winning journalist Brigid
Schulte, a harried mother realized she was living a life of all work and no
play and decided to find out why she felt so overwhelmed.
Here is a book about modern life-a
revelation of the misguided beliefs and stresses that have made leisure feel
like a thing of the past and how we can find time for it in the present.
Participants will learn about parenting
and the division of labor,why being overwhelmed physically affects the size of
our brain, how school and home cultures haven't caught up with the way women
live and work, and the key lessons about how to find time for the things that
matter.
http://www.brigidschulte.com/