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City satisfaction survey: tell us how we’re doing
The key to making your in your words first year of college a success: ‘TO WIN’
The city of Meridian wants to know how we are doing in providing service to you, our residents. We may asking you to invest a few minutes of your time to take an important customer satisfaction survey. Residents will be randomly chosen to participate in over the next few weeks. Your input and feedback will help the city make decisions regarding the delivery and quality of services we provide you and your neighbors. If your household is randomly chosen to participate, your responses will help us better understand your use of and satisfaction with city services, programs and your impressions about the performance of the city as a whole. The survey is designed to cover a wide variety of topics including your feelings about how the city uses your tax dollars, how safe you feel in the city and how you perceive Meridian as a place to live. In addition, this survey will touch on services like roads which are provided by our partner organizations. The survey is being conducted by ETC Institute, a national market research firm that specializes in conducting surveys for local governments. The survey is entirely voluntary and should take only 10 to 15 minutes of your time. We ask that if you are randomly selected that you complete it as soon as possible. You can either complete the written survey and return it in the mail using the postage-paid envelope or complete the survey online at a web address that will be provided to you. Please know that regardless of how you complete it, your survey responses will be completely confidential and combined with the responses of other Meridian residents. If you are randomly selected, I want to thank you in advance for your participation. Your feedback matters and is critical to our understanding of the current and future needs of our Meridian residents. If you have questions on this survey, please contact the Meridian Mayor’s Office at 489-0529. Otherwise you can look for the survey results to be posted on the City of Meridian’s website (meridian city.org) in May. n
Tammy de Weerd is mayor of Meridian.
If you’re a high school senior, the best years of your life are just around the corner. No need to be nervous or anxious. Just remember these key ingredients to making your first year of college a success. If you like mnemonics, maybe you’ll like this acronym – TO WIN. “T” stands for “talk” to your professors. After missing a few calculus classes a week to travel with my college basketball team, I learned this lesson pretty quickly and added it to my bag of tricks. I took advantage of my professor’s office hours to get some one-onone tutoring and turned what could have been a failing grade into the greatest B that I ever received. I also learned I’m not a morning person. “O” is for “only” take classes you know you’ll attend. If you struggle waking up for school now, you’ll probably skip your 8 a.m. classes. Try to register for 9:30 a.m. classes or later. I also saved my evenings for
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hanging out with my buddies (I mean homework, Mom), so try to keep your evenings open too, if you can. This also helps if you plan to work part-time. “W” stands for “weigh.” Be sure to weigh your options and stay flexible with your major. The average college student changes their declared major at least three times, so no worries if you swap from pre-med to business. Keep in mind, you’ll be working on your general education courses for the first few years of college anyway. You can use that time to narrow things down based on your career goals and the classes you enjoy most. While in a new environment, you’ll want to satisfy the “I” in our acronym — get “involved!” Check out the different student clubs, organizations and activities on campus. Not only will you get a break from the monotony of
on the recent Meridian Press articles on various issues. I am getting frustrated with the lack of in-depth reporting on controversial issues. Too often some of the most obvious questions are not addressed, and some of the reporting on certain issues is starting to get very skewed. We already have the Statesman if we want biased news coverage, we need a paper of
studying and writing papers, you’ll also get to meet people who share your interests. My favorite on-campus activity was intramural sports, which leads me to the last letter, “N.” You “need” to exercise — trust me! I’m a victim of the dreaded “freshman 15” and also found myself getting stressed about the littlest things. I noticed that a regular exercise regimen kept the weight off and my stress levels down. Take advantage of student discounts at your campus rec center and also jump at the opportunity to meet people at the gym. If you can remember these first-year-of-college tips, you’re sure to win. Best of luck, and enjoy the rest of your senior year!
record that will ask the hard questions and dig a bit deeper than the information on a press release. to those nice folks who oversee the voting polls. I always find the friendliest folks at my precinct (Chapparal Elementary School) and no doubt I could find similar friendly people anywhere voting takes place. Good job, and a
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Dana Gaudet is an Idaho State University admissions adviser based on the ISU-Meridian campus.
big thanks for your civic devotion to a precious honor we have in America, our right to vote. And I was happy to show an ID in order to vote. if you vote! to Ustick/Locust Grove traffic. Yuck. n Send submissions to news@mymeridianpress.com.
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