INSIDER’S GUIDE TOCOLLEGE LIFEPERSPECTIVE Perspective 100 A conversation with Mitchell B. Reiss, President, Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland
might like something you don’t imagine you would. Finding your purpose in life is what a great undergraduate experience is all about. The best colleges help students find that passion. I believe a liberal arts institution can do this better than any other model on the planet.
What is the best advice you can give a high school student who’s deciding on a college and a career?
You’re not going to be very successful or very happy unless you’re really enthusiAbout a third of young astic about what you’re doing. people are getting jobs If you don’t yet know where in industries that didn’t your passion lies, take a cue JOCELYN FARO, WASHINGTON COLLEGE CLASS OF ’16, PERFORMS exist 10 years ago. How from the French, who have the AT THE GARFIELD CENTER FOR THE ARTS. do you educate stuexpression, “The appetite comes with the eating.� In other words, in ent courses. This is one of the great advan- dents for jobs that don’t yet exist? You teach them transcendent skill higher education you can sometimes find tages of a liberal arts education: it allows sets, the most important of which is your passion by taking a variety of differyou to try different courses and see if you
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