Advice to Students

Michael Roger’s warning will hopefully be more persuasive to you than any from the over 30 crowd: At some point, your Honors Capstone advisor is going to tell you to begin your project earlier than you think you need to. You will say to yourself, “That sounds like a lot of time, I don’t have…

Amanda Michelson (PC 14) has important advice to share about making the best use of what you have, *including time*: The greatest piece of advice that I can give to Honors students is to know how to leverage resources. There are so many people on campus, especially professors, who are willing to take the time…

Shyneice C. Porter (AS/PC ’14) echoes the advice you are hopefully hearing from all corners concerning your Capstone topic choice: The best advice that I could give for this extensive project is to choose a topic about which you are truly passionate and that encompasses aspects of your everyday life. This will be a long,…

Maisha Fabliha Shahid (AS, ’14) has a short list of tips which she hopes will save you time and strife: To any future Honors students planning to complete a Capstone, I give the following advice, which I have arrived at after much trial and error: –          Spend your time really thinking about the things you…

Rebecca Ierardo (AS ’14) completed a Capstone which was an ethnographic analysis of the  role gender plays within interactions in police work. The women of the Syracuse Police Department were the population group for her study. In her project as in all Capstones, material comes at you from all directions. Here is some advice she has…