If the FAFSA overwhelms you and you don't know how to find scholarships to help pay for your college tuition, or you just feel like you need some guidance in the college financial planning process, CUC has informative, FREE seminars that you shouldn't miss.

Check out the following seminars:

March 2, at 1:00 p.m.
Blue Mountain Academy in Hamburg, Pa.

March 11, at 6:00 p.m.
Columbus Adventist Academy in Columbus, Ohio

If you'd like to schedule a financial planning seminar at your local church or school, call the CUC Enrollment Services Office at 800-835-4212 or e-mail at enroll@cuc.edu to set something up.

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The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, a tourist and DC-native favorite, has a free show every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 11:30 a.m entitled "The Stars Tonight."

Learn about the current night sky and the stars in this free show featuring the Air & Space Museum's fabulous planetarium.

For more information, click here.

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See The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde at the D.C. Arts Center in northwest DC. Tickets are $15 per person: a great price for this classic bit of drama.

The Importance of Being Earnest has something for everyone, from romance to intrigue, and the D.C. Arts Center have transported the play to a 1930's Hollywood setting.

Don't miss this exciting event! More information can be found here.

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If you are stressing about how to make restaurant reservations for Valentine's Day--or if you don't even know where to start--OpenTable.com offers a great service that should be able to help you out.

OpenTable.com makes it easy to decide which restaurant to reserve a table at, based upon popularity, price, menu or location (among other criteria). They also show which restaurants are most often reserved at, so you use this recommendation to choose wisely where to take your sweetie-pie on Valentine's.

After making your restaurant reservation, there's only one thing left to do...don't forget the flowers!

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Every other year, CUC hosts Seventh-day Adventist academies on campus for a honors band festival. This year, this best band members from Blue Mountain Academy, Highland View Academy, Mt. Vernon Academy, Fletcher Academy, Takoma Academy, Spencerville Adventist Academy and Spring Valley Academy are featured.

The festival is by tape-audition, and CUC Concert Winds Director Bruce Wilson coordinates who is accepted into the prestigious honors band.

This year is the first that the Columbia Concert Winds will be playing in full force alongside the academy students, making up a band 90 members strong.

Also, as is tradition, CUC brings in a guest conductor/composer for the festival. This year, Stephen Bulla, who has participated in the band festival previously, returned to conduct some of his older pieces and to conduct the world premiere of a piece he was commissioned to compose specifically for the festival.

Don't miss the world premiere of this piece, among other fantastic works of band literature tonight at the Spencerville Seventh-day Adventist Church at 7:30 p.m.

The honors band will also be performing several pieces for church services on Saturday, February 9 at the Sligo SDA Church.

If you have any further questions, please call 1-800-835-4212.

Labels: Can Your College Do This?, events, music, on campus, student life, washington dc

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