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A Review of the 31st Olympic Games

The 31st Olympic Games, hosted by Brazil and Rio de Janeiro, were one of the most spectacular, as well as controversial, Olympics in recent memory. What makes them especially unique is the overwhelmingly negative media coverage Rio received prior to the Games,...

Senior Year

I’ve gone to class and yet I’m still in denial about this year. It’s senior year. Granted, I have accepted an integrated undergraduate graduate program and will stay an extra year to pursue my Masters, but it still seemed surreal. Time flew by! I...

A New Year, a New Worry

As summer comes to an end, another school year begins to make its entrance. This time around is Junior year for me, which, in many ways it seems, is quite formidable. As a business student, Junior year is the time to narrow down selections for one’s first field of...

The 2016 National Flute Convention

This summer I had the pleasure of representing Penn State by attending the National Flute Convention in San Diego, California. Earlier in the year, I submitted a recording of one the  solos I was working in a competition to play with the National Collegiate Flute...

Saying Goodbye to Summer

So many times this summer I’ve sat down and stared blankly at my computer screen hoping to write my greatest blog post yet, but I’ve come up short each time. I wanted to blog about my achievements in the Senate, about my beach trip, and even about my...

Russia Week 7

I haven’t had a cheeseburger in almost two months and I’ve been wearing the same pair of shoes for just as long. My feet are actually formed to the Sperry’s. However, mine and Kylie’s relationship has really evolved over the course of this...

The Travel Bug

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.” –St. Augustine If there is one thing that I learned about myself while in Europe, it is that I absolutely love to travel. It wasn’t long after I arrived in Freiburg that I realized how exciting and...

Coming Home

I’ve been back in the United States for a few days now, and people always ask me the same question – “What does it feel like?” To be honest, it feels pretty great. I missed my family, my friends and some of the everyday facts of life that I had taken for granted...