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Dropping the OMG, and Thinking about GMO

Last week I got the chance to tour GardenGenetics, a plant breeding start-up company in Bellefonte. GardenGenetics specializes in growing ornamental flowers and vegetables… they’re VERY proud of their wavy petunias and decorative kale. Before the tour, the executives...

Eve Ensler on BFFs & Rape Culture

This week I had the opportunity to hear Eve Ensler speak about her global feminist work as part of Sexual Violence Awareness Week. Eve Ensler is an activist and playwright that created “The Vagina Monologues” and more recently One Billion Rising, a program that...

31 GIFs that Accurately Describe Being in the PLA

While we all love the PLA, there are definitely some parts about it that can cause us stress.   When you get to the networking brunch after your interview   2. When you meet your class on orientation day   3. When kids talk about what they did over the...

The Impact of Advertising on Viewers’ Body Esteem

It is that time of the year when the work for the thesis starts picking up. For my honors thesis, I chose to explore advertising of beauty brands and how it contributes to the idealized beauty norm. Beauty, while considered subjective and dependent on the eye of the...

Invest in Yourself

We always expect other people to take a chance on us. Why won’t they just let me prove myself? This is a thought that would constantly run throughout my mind over the last couple of months. I realized as I was finding my passion and the work I wanted to be doing...

Blog Block

I spent a lot of time yesterday trying to write my blog. Nothing came of it but a list of ideas and, ultimately, a blank post. I decided to forget about it and try again this morning. It was actually last night, when I stopped trying to find an idea, that I got the...

Love: The Verb and the Noun

I have been reading the book “7 Habits for Highly Effective People” because I have recently found myself struggling to find out what direction I would like to go for this summer and where I can make meaningful change. So why not try to make meaning change...

Post-Drug Test Blog

So I just had my ROTC drug test for the semester and every semester it took way longer than it should to complete. Most of the cadets have thought of many ways to make the system more efficient and it upsets us we have to spend so long on this event.  Most of us...

Utilizing Subordinate Leaders

This morning, our battalion held a urinalysis for all of the contracted (those who are essentially guaranteed to commission upon graduation) underclassmen; freshmen through juniors.  All seniors and non-contracted underclassmen were subsequently excused from physical...