Interdisciplinary Student Blogs
•Hello and greetings from my cozy Canterbury Court Apartments! Here’s my five second introduction. Don’t worry I made sure it was five seconds. I am Mikaela and I am a senior studying Business and Communication at Dordt University (4.73 seconds to be exact). Today I find myself looking out to the beautiful city lights of…
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Social Work Student Blogs
•Blog #1: First off, thank you so much for joining my journey here in Chicago, make your self comfortable. Grab some coffee or tea, sit somewhere comfortable, and just enjoy. My name is Bethanie Blackann. I am a senior at Kuyper College getting my Bachelor in Social Work with a specialization. The reason I am…
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Student Teacher Blogs
•Hello! Welcome to the inside scoop of Chicago Semester Student Teaching COVID edition! As you probably know schools look a little different for both students and teachers this year. Since the students are not at school in person, the teachers are also not required to be in school to teach, so I have been teaching…
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Featured Stories
•Welcoming Students this Fall We are excited to welcome our Fall 2020 students to Chicago in the coming weeks. This fall we will be utilizing Chicago parks and outdoor spaces for classes and orientation, engaging students in virtual and outdoor fine art events and creating opportunities for internships to be partially completed online. We have…
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Featured Stories
•Allison Raddatz ’20, first learned about Chicago Semester when she was a prospective student on a visit to Trinity Christian College (IL). Allison had dreams of attending a school in the city of Chicago, but Trinity’s campus just felt like home. Allison’s admissions counselor told her about Chicago Semester and she loved the idea of…
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Featured Stories
•Each year Chicago Semester broadens its impact as we serve more students from our growing list of partner colleges and universities. This past year over 125 students embarked on the Chicago Semester experience, emerging as professionals in their chosen fields, pursuing their vocational callings and faithfully engaging their communities. We invite you to share in celebrating their stories by clicking…
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•We loved our Spring 2020 Chicago Semester students. They handled unexpected changes with grace and we are thankful to have worked with such incredible students this semester. Here are a few final reflections from some of of our semester bloggers. I can’t emphasize enough how grateful I am for my time in Chicago, however…
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Interdisciplinary Student Blogs
•“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” My mom has instilled this quote in me for as long as I can remember. Never in my wildest thoughts would I have imagined being sent home from Chicago because of a global pandemic, but here we are. That saying has been with me from the…
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Social Work Student Blogs
•Hello Everyone, Sorry for the delay in posting, but as many of you have heard, much has changed since the last time I sat down to write. The biggest being that, due to the coronavirus, Chicago Semester has officially been moved online. Not only have our classes been moved to an online format, but this…
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Nursing Student Blogs
•Well this is not the cheery, end of March update we were all hoping for. In the past few weeks lives across the country have been completely uprooted. In the midst of the COVID-19 tragedy Chicago Semester students were sent home to finish up their year online. Originally, nursing students were supposed to stay and…
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