Letters are in the mail!

The mail truck arrives to collect 7,420 letters






It was an emotional day for our beloved Diana Burke. This year will be the last time she loads the mail truck with decision letters. Words can't thank her enough for the forty one years of service to the Skidmore community!

The wait is (almost) over!

On March 27^th, decision letters will leave the Skidmore admissions office. Months and months of hard work culminate into one simple decision letter. Some applicants will be ecstatic when the mail arrives, most will be disappointed. This post is dedicated to all 7,400+ applicants this year, regardless of the decision letter you receive. We thank you for your patience through the entire application process. We hope all of you will find the right institution for you, and for some of you, we hope that institution is Skidmore.

Accepted students can sign up for an Accepted Candidates Day here.

Check out some of the Skidmore groups on facebook: Skidmore Class of 2012 (started by a Skidmore class of 2012 student) and Discovery Weekend at Skidmore (a page I maintain). You can also check out the video I posted on the Discovery Weekend page.

While my next few blogs will be geared toward accepted students, please know I have not forgotten about the students just beginning their college search process. I will include a few posts to help students navigate the college search process.

Podcast Tour?

This week is Spring break for Skidmore students. We still offer group information sessions for prospective students but we do not have student led tours this week (March 10th-March 15th). On that note, I notice a larger population of students visiting Skidmore during the weekend, when the admissions office is not necessarily open. This got me thinking about what we could do to service the self-guided tours better.

We are currently playing with the idea of having a podcast or mp3 audio file (available on the Skidmore web page) of a self-guided tour; visitors could visit buildings they were interested in and click play on their Ipod/mp3 player to listen to a student talk about that specific building. For those less technically inclined, we could also have a phone number to call (using a cell phone) with the same recorded description of the building.

We recorded audio for two of the buildings on campus, JKB Theater and Filene Music Hall. We selected two superstar seniors (Natasha Amendolara and Ryan Klein) to leave their legacy behind in the form of their recorded voice.
Natasha getting ready to record (my camera was accidentally in video mode)

Ryan on his way to class

Faculty Basketball at Skidmore

Now that I work at Skidmore, I can play "noontime faculty/staff basketball". Games are held Monday, Wednesday and Friday at, you guessed it, noon. You can always judge how good a college is by how competitive the faculty basketball is (uh....not really- but wouldn't that be neat to see in the guidebooks?).

Here are some pictures from the last outing.
Executing the triangle offense
Sometimes we play soccer too (click on photo)!
Some of the professors can really play:)

Chowderfest!

Chowderfest 2008!

I have been busy reading applications and I haven't had time to blog as much as I want to. Here is a post about Chowderfest!
http://www.discoversaratoga.org/Chowderfest/

We brought our pugs along ( bundled up for the cold), a bottle of water, and a couple cans of soda to cleanse the palate and quench our thirst!

This Chowder won "Best Dog Chowder" as judged by the Mayor's dog.
Dookie dares Walter (in the Skidmore sweater) to try the dog chowder
The line outside at one of the chowder stops!
I actually had two bowls of this chowder. It was one of the winners of the day!
Our ballot for Chowderfest 2008!

Skidmore musicians

Congratulations to Julia Nunes '11, the winner of the Bushman World Ukelele Video Contest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-lt3vVA-4I

Skidmore has an incredible music community; here are some other Skiddies I enjoy listening to.

Amy Regan
"So in Love" is my favorite!

Lisa Bastoni
Can be seen performing all over Boston.

Sinem Saniye
"Boom Sheke Nana" won the 2006 John Lennon Songwriting Contest

Lyle Divinsky
Also starred in Cabaret Troupe's production of "Fame" earlier this fall.

Nat Osborn
His group features a number of Skidmore classmates. "Yours alone" is awesome!

Dylan Connor
So versatile and talented.


Here is a brand new way to keep track of all your favorite Skidmore musicians:http://skidmore.magnify.net/

Super Tuesday

Yesterday was a super Tuesday in many respects. Skidmore has enough voter participation in order be its own polling district so Skidmore students vote right on campus!
Skidmore students also vote in local elections (but we'll save that for another post).




I was also able to join many of the international students at an informal gathering at Scribner House, the home of President Glotzbach and his wife Marie.