We are back at Splashdown Beach! After two years apart…we have returned, and it felt awesome in a multitude of ways!! This is arguably the most popular trip of the summer, and we were able to safely make it happen this year. The alumni piled in the van as staff drove three alumni to Fishkill,…
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Finding his passion through blood donation Jesse Saperstein says he feels like a champion when he gives blood-and he’s one of the Red Cross’ most dedicated friends. The New York resident shared his story about one of his passions in life: donating blood to help someone in need. “During my junior year, I became a…
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A popular class enjoyed by our students during the Summer I Session was the Introduction to Acting Class taught by instructor Emily Padula every Friday morning from 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM. Even though drama can be a lot of fun, it is still a craft to be practiced and perfected little by little. Emily…
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The Alumni Activities Club decided to unplug for a couple of hours in order to take in the natural world nestled within Capital City. We stopped any Facebook chatter and put the phones in our pockets unless it was needed to take one of several beautiful photographs. On that note, Mia Carr and Dora Butner…
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The new school year is here! On Monday, August 16th, we welcomed our new freshman class into The College Experience. With the help of their parents and staff members, the 18 new students made their way into their dorms for the first time, decorating their rooms and meeting their new housemates. The prior day our…
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The Alumni Activities Club has finally discovered one of Albany’s best-kept secrets! There is a place to cool off where the water is forever kept at a balmy 90-degrees and the winters are always mild. We are talking about the Goldfish Swim School located in Colonie, NY in the complex of Wolf Road Shoppers Park…
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The Alumni Activities Club is surely on a roll these days! Our most recent trip was to the Wicked Eatery, Pub & Entertainment in Clifton Park, NY on the evening of Thursday, July 8, 2021. We wanted to give the alumni a change of scenery from the stretch of restaurants a stone’s throw from their…
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The College Experience and Living Resources would like to extend our heartfelt congratulatory wishes to Denise Riley who graduated from the College Experience in 2012. Denise was recently awarded Employee of the Month at the Teresian House Center for the Elderly where she has been a long-time employee. This is the second time Denise has…
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At long last…the moment the Alumni Activities Club had been waiting for finally entered our collective realities on Saturday, June 12, 2021. The restrictions had been sufficiently lifted throughout New York State to warrant our first out-of-town Alumni trip in at least fifteen months! Living Resources and the College Experience have been closely monitoring the…
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We are not sure if you recognize this adorable little boy who is now an adult in his mid-twenties. But perhaps you have a glimpse of recognition toward the older gentlemen standing beside him. The little boy is Nick Williams who graduated from the College Experience in 2018 and the man is the late-Academy Award-winning…
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