Syracuse University reaches out to Chicago-area high schools

As an alumnus of both Syracuse University and Naperville North High School, I was excited to begin my new role as Syracuse's Chicagoland Representative. At a ground level, I was excited to share my experiences at Syracuse University with students who had similar high school settings.

Trading One Love for Another

I went to Syracuse “undecided.” When I was in high school, my father asked what I was going to study in college, and I said I wanted to study business. And he said, “Well, if you're going to study business, you're not going to go to college.

The Best of The Rest

When I was a junior in high school, I took the SATs and I went to my guidance counselor for advice about where to go to college. He recommended a list of schools that I might be interested in.

It Started up on Mount Olympus

Recently I read a really interesting book called Mr g. It's a fictional novel about the concept of God, written by Alan Lightman. After reading it, I had this feeling that I used to have every time I left my favorite class at Syracuse University.

Monday, September 17, 2012

Trading One Love for Another

8:36 AM David Edelstein 1 comment

I went to Syracuse “undecided.”  When I was in high school, my father asked what I was going to study in college, and I said I wanted to study business.  And he said, “Well, if you're going to study business, you're not going to go to college. You can come work for me.”  I immediately said “I want to be a lawyer,” so that I could go to college.  I was accepted into the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse, which a lot of “undecided” people attended. Between my freshman and sophomore years, I was seeing a girl back home who was going to take some summer classes at a local community college. I wanted to be with her, so I decided to take a class, too.  I took a computer programming class in a language...
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Friday, September 14, 2012

The Best of The Rest

7:50 AM David Edelstein No comments

When I was a junior in high school, I took the SATs and I went to my guidance counselor for advice about where to go to college.  He recommended a list of schools that I might be interested in. I was the first member of my family to go to college, so my family didn't have a whole lot of experience selecting one. So I set off to visit some of the schools on my own. I went to George Washington University down in Washington, DC, and while it's a decent school, there is no campus, which at the time was very important to me. I went to Carnegie Mellon out in Pittsburgh, which has a campus, but it was all engineering, and at that time I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do. I looked at a couple of schools in New Jersey but...
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