How College Works Peter Hyland, Melody Denny, and Andrew Hyland

We talk with a coordinator for the AVID program about what AVID is, how it works, and why it is such a successful program for getting students ready for college. You can find their webpage at https://www.avid.org/

We use a the themes of Rich Dad, Poor Dad (a book Drew read some years ago) as a starting point to discuss why you may or may not want to go to college, what our motivations were when we started, and how some of those didn't really pan out the way we expected.

We have a little fun using Google's autocomplete to answer common questions in the form of "How does college. . ."

We're back and spend our time checking in on how our academic years have been going with Covid and other struggles.

We discuss why students might take a gap year or gap semester and speculate about effects that could have on colleges with the worst case possibility of many student taking gap because of Covid. We are particularly speculative on these issues and not predictive.

We talk with a college junior who has words of wisdom and advice (new to us) on how to make the transition to college smoother and to thrive at college.