101 Things To Do Before (or After) You Graduate: Bike and Beach Edition

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Afterword

Enthusiastic UVM Foundation employee Derrick Dubois ‘13 joins skeptical UVM Foundation Employee Ryan Chartier ‘10 in pursuit of all 101 activities on the infamous list you may or may not have seen floating around campus the last four (or five) years!

Today’s edition features #7 and #9 — “Take a Ride by the Water” and “Spend a Day at North Beach”. Our last activity left us feeling sluggish. Never fear, exercise is here!

This adventure was Ryan’s idea: “I’ve lived in Burlington without a car for eight years. Although that might seem crazy, I’ve always been able to get to where I need to go and explore cool little sections of the city along the way and it’s kept me close to the heart of downtown. After nearly a decade I’ve decided to upgrade to the limousine of bicycles”.

Ahh , a fine day for a ride….90 degrees

…but like we might hit you…the bike is in control!!

Made it to North Beach. (Not) working on our tans…

….and narrowly avoiding the toxic blue-green algae bloom!

Brilliant!

Stay tuned all throughout the year for more posts like these. We will attempt to:

Make new friends from each campus
Hunt for ghosts in the Converse Hall attics
Climb Camel’s Hump
Spend a day barefoot
Learn a foreign language
And much more!

Help pick what we do next – email us at afterwrd@uvm.edu

What’s the deal with my UVM email?

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Afterword

On Wednesday, you probably received a cryptic email saying “your formal affiliation with UVM” is over…

If you read it, you probably felt a little confused (and maybe a little angry). Yeah, it was a weird email, but here’s the real scoop on your UVM email address.

Your formal affiliation with UVM isn’t over. We’ll always love you.

If you want to keep your UVM email forever, you can. Next year, you’ll get information about a lifetime alumni email address (just like your lifetime AIM account, right?).

If you don’t want to keep your email address, just forward it to your Gmail account.

Or, if you want to ignore everything above, email us at afterword@uvm.edu, give us the email you actually use, and we’ll update it for you.

How to Request an Official Transcript

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Afterword

Whether you are applying to grad school this fall or just pondering the idea, you’re probably very aware of the rigorous application process. Fortunately, UVM has made requesting an official transcript easy *and free*.

All you have to do is log into your myUVM Portal and click on the registrar tab. On the left, under Academic Records, you’ll see “request your official transcript”.

Once you’re on that page, select the appropriate delivery method.

If you select mail as your delivery method, you’ll get this message. We’ll let you decide if you want to save paper…

Fill out the required fields and you’ll be feeling like a million bucks for completing another step in the grad school application process!

What if I Want to Keep Learning?

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Ryan Chartier

There may be some of you out there hungering for more education. As an alum of UVM, you have two great options right here on-campus (and through this new thing called the internet).

Graduate school @ UVM. Tons of interesting programs and options for every career and profession. And they have a couple of online degrees now.
Continuing Education @ UVM. They offer lots of short courses and certificates–in a classroom and online–to get some more skills (without committing to years of grad school).

I did grad school at UVM a few years back, so feel free to email me with any questions you might have.

Ryan

Who to Follow @ UVM

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Afterword

How’s your to-do list looking this week?

Here’s an easy thing you can accomplish in about 14 seconds and head into the holiday weekend feeling like a boss.

You probably already follow UVM on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, but the best way to keep up with the alumni news and info is to follow the Alumni Association.

Twitter: @uvm_alumni