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Leadership Legacy

What do you want your leadership legacy to be? How will this impact your life and career? This is the prompt for the final essay in our PLA senior class. I have always struggled when it comes to writing about myself, and as a direct result, this question has required...

Final Four Bound

Back in August, my teammates and I prepared ourselves with two-a-days in preseason in hopes of making our season last as long as it possibly could. We made sure that we were fit, strong and mentally prepared for the struggles that were waiting upon us. We got our BIG...

Thankful

Thanksgiving is, as the name says, a time to give thanks. People always give thanks for all the things they have. The food in their bellies, the wonderful family sitting around them, their jobs and educations. However, something that many people do not give much...

Ethnocentrism in Disney

So I went to Disney, and yeah it was fun. I had a great time hanging out with my family–long lines for rides really do allow you to spend quality time with the people you’re with! Disney is a place filled with magic, a place that reminds me of my...

Goals of Development

The Pittsburgh trip seems like it happened a while ago but I still think about our experience in Braddock often. Lately, in my CED classes we have been talking about what development work is actually working towards. What are its goals? In conjunction with my...

What’s in a Name?

Since this blog was last written, there have been terrorist attacks in Paris, Mali, and many other places around the world. A question that arises from that mess is “What should the apparent enemy be called”? As of right now, there are almost countless different names...

Dehydrated

If your reading this I would advise to drink a bottle of water right away. You are probably dehydrated and don’t even realize it. Come on now, if you are the studious crazed hardworkers that most of you are, you probably have drank 3 cups of coffee before your...

Orders

Last Tuesday evening, we had the privilege of speaking with Rear Admiral Boxall of the United States Navy about his experiences as a leader. While I really enjoyed everything that he had to say about leadership, one question that arose was particularly interesting:...