WHY are you attending Wallace Community College?

By now, one realizes that Wallace Community College (WCC) involves work. One can easily yield to the temptation of just going to class and going home. Yet, if you engage with extra activities like joining a club, visiting your professors, getting to know staff members, researching projects in the Learning Resource Center, or even attending tutorial sessions regularly, you will grow tremendously. When you stay on campus longer, it will benefit your educational growth. In the past, WCC graduates balanced academics with jobs and family obligations. Therefore, you too will reach this milestone despite external challenges. Remember, anything worthwhile requires -- your time, your growth, your knowledge, your fortitude, your resilience and so does WCC. Afterwards, you will celebrate acquiring that tassel just like past graduates. Therefore, stay encouraged!

 

As you enter your semester break, I want you to ponder the WHY. Really, think about WHY you are here at an educational institution of higher learning. Do not ask the questions - what you will receive or how are you receiving it? Ask the question “WHY are you here?” Why do you feel that right now you need to advance your learning? Think from the inside out instead of the outside in. In other words, remove the focus from your surroundings, and allow your "gut" feelings to answer the rationale for advancing your education.

Remember, to gain inspiration one must start with the clarity of the WHY question! The WHY question produces balance in your life. The WHY question solidifies your goals and ensures completion of your goals. The WHY question creates stamina so you will remain at WCC when the facts may indicate otherwise. So, define your WHY, and Get that Tassel at Wallace Community College!

Word of the Week - Sciential

Our word of the week is sciential. Sciential means having efficient knowledge, and the term capable is its synonym. Sciential is an adjective that poets often utilize in their poems. Yet, our students of learning demonstrate sciential reasoning when studying for exams and reports. For example, "The hidden treasures of science, St. Bonaventure tells us, can be discovered … in a knowledge of either the principles or the conclusions of sciential demonstrations."
By John Francis Quinn, The Historical Constitution of St. Bonaventure's Philosophy, 1973  

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Word of the Week - Cornucopia

All students of learning must have this word in their vocabulary - cornucopia. Cornucopia means abundance or a horn of plenty. The term cornucopia represents the horn of a goat from Greek mythology. According to legend, it was from this horn that the god Zeus was fed as an infant. Later, the horn was filled with flowers and fruits, and given as a present to Zeus. Today, a filled horn serves as a symbol to suggest a store of abundance. (www.m-c.com) So the next time you see an abundance of anything, think Cornucopia.

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Boustrophedon - Word of Week

As students of learning, I must give you an interesting word this week which is boustrophedon. Boustrophedon is a noun that refers to writing of alternate lines in opposite directions as from left to right and from right to left. Before we standardized our writing from left to right, ancient Greek writers used a style called boustrophedon, which literally means "turning like oxen when plowing." These ancient Greeks simply started the next line immediately below the last letter, writing the letters and words in the opposite direction liken an oxen plowing left to right, then right to left. (https://www.merriam-webster.com) 

So the next time you are writing your essay from left to right and you enter the next line and continue the left to right sequence, remember the term boustrophedon to recognize the yesteryear when people then wrote the opposite way known as boustrophedon.

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Umbrage - Word of the Week

Our word of the week is umbrage. Umbrage is a noun that refers to a reason of doubt or suspicion. As students of learning, one can never entertain umbrage when studying or taking tests. Umbrage leads to hesitation while expressing doubts in your answers to each question.  One must demonstrate confidence when studying; otherwise, one will give umbrage a chance to overrule your justifiable outcome. So do not allow umbrage to beat your self-confidence when preparing for exams.    

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