FOCUS!

This past weekend was the Office of Admission’s annual FOCUS on Vassar Weekend, the main event of the Multicultural Recruitment Intern team. Nearly eighty admitted high school seniors and prospective members of the Vassar College Class of 2016 (affectionately called prospies when they visit) came to campus this weekend to see all the countless reasons why they (and you) should matriculate to Vassar. Basically, it was the weirdest!

Calendar time will tell you that I myself had the lucky opportunity to attend FOCUS a little over a year ago. Benedict time is quite sure that I just wandered around campus with other prospies during FOCUS just yesterday. Seeing students just like me asking the same questions, experiencing the same confusion and excitement that I felt just a year ago was… Yikes! Going full circle!

All in all, it was a great weekend! If the group of students who came is any indication of what the Class of 2016 is like, then I could not be more excited to meet the incoming freshman class. I loved having the opportunity to give back the experience I had last year to this year’s students. It’s really such a magical time to be a high school senior. All the students I got to know were so energetic and curious and their enthusiasm for getting to know Vassar really reminded me why I love this school so much.

Focus has been kind of a key theme for the week. The semester is starting to wrap up and everything’s happening at once. In between meetings with professors, elections for VSA (go student government!), meetings for meetings, etc., I’m somehow trying to find time to do my schoolwork and study. What a concept: doing your schoolwork in college!

As the seasons are tentatively shifting towards a warm and sunny spring, I often find fellow students bathing in the sun on the many expanses of green grass on campus. We’re stressed about finals but ultimately so glad to soak up that pure sunshine and just enjoy an afternoon. It’s a beautiful busy time of year—a time to focus on everything academic, everything frivolous, and everything Vassar!