By Travis Skabo, Admissions Student Worker Every Friday during lunch, several St. John’s students gather in a small room just off the main dining hall for a lunchtime conversation with Dean Davis. These conversations are always based off a section of a text that is being read in class that week, or a short text…
Category: Guest Posts
Johnnies in the Age of COVID – a letter from the Loomis Family.
A heartfelt hello from the parents of a sophomore at St. John’s College! We hope this finds each of you well, and safely ensconced where you want to be during our world’s present emergency. We were recently asked to talk about what our daughter’s experience at the college so far has meant to our family….
A Season for Culmination: Essay-Writing and Orals at St. John’s College
Had I earned the rank—through diligence, research, and reflection—of speaking from a place of authority?
Had Aristotle asked himself this question? Goethe? de Beauvoir?
A Week in the Life: Skylar Dash, Office of Personal and Professional Development
This blog post was written by Skylar Dash, Systems Manager of the Office of Personal & Professional Development on our Santa Fe campus, to give you a picture of a week in his life and work here at St. John’s. Skylar started it on Thursday, because he is not afraid to break with convention and…
A Week in Career Services
A sampling from Jaime Dunn, Director of Career Services Tuesday Good morning! This morning I met with a sophomore who’s applying to the Pathways program for the AIP Language Institute in Valencia, Spain. We reviewed his letter of intent and resume and talked about finalizing his application for the deadline next week. I then met…
Why attend St. John’s? Top 9 Reasons
On behalf of Eric Poppele St. John’s tutor, Santa Fe The faculty of St. John’s College are not called professors. The job of a professor is to profess, that is, to tell what they know. We don’t lecture here. As tutors our job is to elicit thoughtfulness and inquiry. We ask questions not because we…
Nuts & Bolts
What should I be doing during the summer—interning in a field that interests me or working a shift job to earn more money? How do you choose a graduate program? When should I create a LinkedIn profile? How do I evaluate a job offer for non-salary benefits like health insurance and retirement savings? Should I…
The Chalkboard 