by John Barczynski | Apr 8, 2018
I apologize in advance for the number of parentheticals in this blog post. My mind is a bit scattered at a moment, and I keep going on strange tangents as I am writing this (So, ironically, as I am writing an article determining what is important in my life, I am...
by John Barczynski | Mar 11, 2018
This week in PLA class we talked about the difference between proactivity and reactivity in leadership, and when leaders must do each of the two. During our discussion, one of my classmates used the game of chess as an analogy for discussing the difference between the...
by John Barczynski | Feb 4, 2018 |
So I want to start this post with a reiteration of something that I have blogged about multiple times: I hate New Year’s Resolutions. So many people I know will decide as early as September to put some self-improvement task off till the next year. And once the...
by John Barczynski | Nov 26, 2017 |
So back in my sophomore year, I wrote about how I thought that New Year’s resolutions were a relatively silly way to look at improving yourself (I ironically made a set of “New President’s Day Resolutions”, some of which were a bit more...
by John Barczynski | Nov 8, 2017 |
This past weekend was the trip to Washington DC, and I have a couple of key takeaways from that trip, but this was actually my second straight week out of State College because on October 31, I was competing in my last International Collegiate Programming Contest...
by John Barczynski | Oct 29, 2017 |
Earlier this year, the Amazon announced that they are looking for a new North American city in which to build a second headquarters. Traits such as access to airports, job growth, an educated labor force, mass transit, and good local universities are said to be big...
by John Barczynski | Sep 24, 2017 |
This week I was reminded of one of the most important things that I keep forgetting about leadership: A leader cannot lead if they do not take care of themselves. As I was getting back into the sing of classes, I wasn’t sleeping as much as I should have. This...
by John Barczynski | Apr 23, 2017 |
So I didn’t really have a better way to describe how I am feeling right now, and the whole “One door closes and another door opens” thing seemed relatively cliche. While graduation happens every year, in my experience it affects juniors and seniors...
by John Barczynski | Apr 16, 2017
So last weekend was a busy one for me. In addition to the Gettysburg trip with the PLA, HackPSU, Penn State’s own Hackathon, was also happening last week. I was not able to compete because I was spending the majority of the competition time in Gettysburg, but...
by John Barczynski | Apr 9, 2017
This weekend, a number of PLA members had the opportunity to take part in a leadership seminar in Gettysburg. The experience was an interesting one, as we moved through the three days of fighting trying to understand how the decisions made generals over 150 years ago...
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