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Facebook aids College Office By Esther Hernandez You’re breathing heavy, your palms are sweaty, and you’re ferociously panting. Your blood pressure boils and your stress level increases. Your eyes are glancing around the room seeking answers to your questions. You feel stranded and helpless. You can smell the fear of other seniors as your nose hunts for guidance. It’s the college application process. One college advisor is attending her newborn baby while the other is wrapped up in a list of things to do. Students wonder how they’ll get this all done; they have questions seeping out of their pores. College advisors are frantically trying to answer student’s questions but keep hearing the same one repeatedly. They are worn out with the explosion of redundant questions thrown in their way. Joanna Romero to the rescue! Our fellow senior took the heavy responsibility of becoming the College Office Student Assistant. Her duty was to help troubled seniors with their questions on the dreaded applications. “I answer any questions that seniors ask and if I don’t know the answer I’ll write it down on a post-it and get back to them when I ask Boulay or Mednick,” said Romero. During this intense process, many students were willing to lend out their helping hand. Questions about the process were being tossed around so the Student Assistant took the initiative of creating a Facebook page titled Oh S***! College apps due Nov 20th! Any questions that needed answering were to be written on the page. “I put the curses so it could catch people’s attention and they could join the group. If I would have put “College Applications, if you need help contact me”, then no one would join the group. I had to make it catchy,” added Romero. This little Facebook group evolved. It was the center of attention to all the HSTAT students who have Facebook accounts. Questions, answers and comments were shared across the board. Students expressed their feelings about college and all had an experience of hardship to share. “Turns out I have 100 people in the group. I think it’s pretty effective because the questions asked were a lot of questions people had in general so people would go to the page and look at the answers already posted. It was like a team effort," shared Romero. Not only were students interested in this Facebook group, but even teachers were interested. College advisors Boulay and Mednick found the page to be resourceful and were eager to share the good news with Principal Weinberg. “Weinberg literally dragged me to his office to make me type the Facebook group on the computer so he could join it,” laughed Romero.
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