City Counseling Connection -- Empowering Students: May 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.

Sunday, May 29, 2016

Harvard Graduation Speech

Pic by Sebastian Ritter

Jiang He tells the audience at Harvard why his mother set his hand on fire in this commencement speech at Harvard.

Powerful Graduation Speech at Harvard

Pic by Jacob Rus

"Our stories are the ladders that make it easier for us to touch the stars . . ."

Donovan Livingston lights up Harvard with this inspiring graduation speech.

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Graduation Speech About Kindness

pic by David Shankbone

San Diego City College just held our largest graduation ever at the Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park. Here is a 2013 commencement speech by George Saunders, writer, on kindness.

Sunday, May 22, 2016

Most Americans Can't Cover $1000 expense

If you had an unexpected expense such as a major car repair, would you be able to afford it? If you're like most Americans, the answer is no. "Poll: Two-Thirds of U.S. Would Struggle to Cover $1000 Crisis" was printed in the San Diego Union Tribune on May 20, 2016.