RAD Program Builds Students’ Confidence and Independence
Each year following the winter recess, College Experience students return to campus one week prior to the beginning of classes to engage in a prep week in order to get…
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Meet the Bloggers!
This semester at The College Experience, students in our Self-Expression elective are learning how to write their very own blog entries. Students will be writing entries for our blog, as…
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Resolving to Make Resolutions
– Written by Jesse Saperstein, College Experience Habilitation Liaison My colleague, Judy Hartley and I started off the second-to-last Morning Meeting with a topic relevant to the culmination of the…
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Decking the Halls
The holiday season is in full swing at the College Experience! Last weekend prior to Finals Week, students found some time to unwind by creating salt dough and cinnamon dough Christmas…
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The following post is written by staff member, Jesse Saperstein. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! As the old and tired cliché goes, “Time really flies.” It seems like yesterday I had my…
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In Jesse Saperstein’s Creative Writing class, students have been practicing writing and delivering speeches to their classmates. Although many people fear public speaking (and as Jesse pointed out, public speaking…
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Real-World Cooking Skills
A major focus of the The College Experience is ensuring that students have the skills they will need to live independently and really thrive on their own after completing the…
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Preparing for the Working World Preparation for a career College Experience seniors participate in two semester long paid or unpaid internships. These internships assist students in learning specific job skills,…
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Haunted Happenings
This post comes a little bit late, but we wanted to share some of the festivities our CEP students and staff participated in leading up to Halloween! Michelle Brown’s History…
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Haunted Happenings
This post comes a little bit late, but we wanted to share some of the festivities our CEP students and staff participated in leading up to Halloween! Michelle Brown’s History…
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What comes after graduation? Many College Experience students, in fact most, choose to remain in Albany. They maintain friendships with their fellow and former graduates, form romantic partnerships, and some get married.