City Counseling Connection -- Empowering Students: December 2016

Welcome!

We are Ray and Georgina, counselors at City. Week of Service. Teens show kindness. Auction raises $3M. Are you ready for online learning? Roadblocks to getting into competitive universities. Community Colleges Train Doctors. On-site interviews. A dying father. 10K tip. Job Interviews at City College. Budgeting. Colleges that change lives. Jobs. Saving lives.

The veterans page: Crisis line. Military benefits. Veterans Day. Suicide awareness. A surprised 8-year-old. Honoring heroic dog. Honorably discharged veterans shop tax-free. Forever GI Bill. Father takes care of 4 children. Integrate Marine Training? Robotic legs. Costs of war. Saluting a fallen soldier. 300K Lotto winner. Vets and painkillers. Vet resources. Grandmother of veteran's family deported. Housing the homeless. Veteran finds healing through adopting a cat. Wounded Marines help others.

Empowering students to fulfill their dreams through education.

Friday, December 30, 2016

Is It A Good Time to Buy a Used Car?

"This is the first material (car inventory) decline we've seen since the recession." -- Jonathan Banks, an analyst at J.D. Power. The Time is Right to Buy a Used Vehicle was published in the LA Times on December 27, 2016.

Monday, December 19, 2016

San Diego City College Scholarships Open!

Need money for school? Check out the San Diego City College Scholarships open until Feb. 24, 2017. Awards: $175 to $1000.

Music and Business -- Career Opportunities

Music majors at SDSU have options beyond a career in performance. By taking part in a five-course minor, they can expand their career prospects. SDSU Music Students On Track to Be Entrepreneurs was published in the San Diego Union Tribune on December 17, 2016.

Thursday, December 1, 2016

Kindness Goes a Long Way

A Toys R Us employee steps in to help a mother who was a little short on cash, and the kindness was repaid tenfold. This story appeared on MSN News.