College Night

This week at Teen Night we had a speaker come to talk to the teens about college and hard work. The speaker was a law student from Creighton University and she spoke to the teens about the fact that she was not always a straight A student and she did not always know exactly what she wanted to but her hard work was what got her through. I thought this was a great message for the teens to hear because they really need someone to instill a strong work ethic in them. The college volunteers that come help show them that they too can go to college and do what they want to do but hearing it from someone else definitely helped. We allowed the kids to go outside and play around after and anyone who wanted could stay in and talk to Angela about the college experience and share any questions or concerns that they might have. I was surprised that we had a couple kids come in and ask her questions. They asked things like well I like Science and law, what could I do with that? I think it was a great time for the teens to get out their questions and talk with others about college and what the experience is like. It was also nice that she did not sugar coat the experience, she told them college was tough but if you have a strong work ethic and you put in the effort anyone could do it. Which is exactly what the teens needed to hear.

April 24, 2010. Uncategorized.