Explore the community Read the book Browse our projects Discover more resources FAQ TEAM Login LOCATION: Raleigh, NC REGION: Southeast US K-12: Unschooling HIGHER ED: Community/junior college Self-directed/ZTC TOP INTERESTS: Writing, creative Advertising and marketing Psychology WEBSITE/PORTFOLIOS: collegerebellion.com facebook.com/JessicaCBarker90 twitter.com/LifewoCollege Jessica Claire Barker Why I'm Here: - to offer mentorship or coaching to other members My Biggest Current Interests & Projects: - Right now I am working on developing an extravagantly awesome online wealth of resources and encouragement for those not doing "the college thing." I am also learning Spanish and drawing, and spending as much time as I can out playing in the garden. Bio: Jess is a 21-year-old, 5′ 8″ North Carolinian. A lifelong autodidact, she spends her time writing stories, poetry, and articles, playing various instruments, composing, reading, working with animals, growing organic herbs and vegetables, traveling, studying animal behavior, and swimming the butterfly. After spending November in southern Colorado writing a collection of stories, poetry, and essays, she is currently back in her hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina scheming up a book for teens and young adults on how to convince their parents to let them conduct their own higher education. Jess’ passion for lifelong learning, creativity, adventure, and dream-catching stemmed from her parents’ never ceasing encouragement to go after what she wanted, Grace Llewellyn’s famous Teenage Liberation Handbook, and a final kick in the butt from Blake Boles and Abbi Miller, founders of Unschool Adventures. She now wants to help enlighten others to the world out there and encourage to go and live their dreams. Her areas of expertise she'd be willing to mentor in include, but are not limited to: - Doing everything except going to college - Domestic (US) travel - WWOOFing and other awesome Travel Adventures, and how to get them - How to make colleges work for you - Figuring out what you want to do with your life and/or narrowing your interests down - Setting goals and achieving them - Finding interest-related opportunities in your local community - Creating your own "college course" in any subject - Batching nontraditional middle/high school pursuits to create an acceptable transcript/portfolio that colleges will be impressed by Additionally, as she briefly mentioned above, Jess loves writing. As a result, she knows a ton about it, and she would love to help you with any writing you could ever want help with. Such as: - Business/marketing - Creative: poetry - Creative: stories - Essay writing (basic structure, basic overview of the different styles) - Blogging and/or journal keeping - Editing (for all of the above) And more; if you think of it, and for some reason she feels incapable of mentoring that particular type of writing, she'll certainly let you know. And then maybe you both can learn together! Other general areas that Jessica has studied intensely include organic farming and gardening, and animal husbandry and behavior, and psychology. Hit her up for ideas on how to pursue these areas, as well as general knowledge. She would absolutely love to mentor you at no cost; however, she is a very busy lady and if things start to get too time consuming she may have to start charging; she thanks you for understanding! In conclusion, she would like everyone to know that it is terribly difficult to talk about oneself in the third person for an extended period of time, and hopes she can stop now that she's reached the end of her bio. Contact Me: via Facebook via Twitter Or click here to send a message via e-mail... You must be logged in to use this feature. ZTC FAQ Team Contact Site Directory Home Become a Member Explore the Community Read the Book Join Our Projects Discover More Resources Also Visit Trailblazer Gathering College Dropouts Hall of Fame Unschool Adventures Not Back to School Camp Return to top of page © 2013