by Robert Jacob Griggs | May 2, 2020
Despite the fact that it’s been a long time coming, it is still surreal to consider that this is my last PLA blog. While I can’t say that I’ve always enjoyed blogging with all of my heart, it is something that’s become part of my weekly routine for nearly the entirety...
by Robert Jacob Griggs | Apr 19, 2020 |
This past Wednesday, PLA’s own Zach McKay won his race to be the new president of UPUA, and his running mate Lexy is officially the vice president-elect. This coming Wednesday, the two of them will be sworn in at the beginning of their first meeting as an...
by Robert Jacob Griggs | Apr 12, 2020 |
As we enter our fifth week since the end of spring break and the fifth week of the routines that have become our new normal for the semester, things for me are finding a strange kind of rhythm. That’s not to say that I’m not still dealing with the problems mentioned...
by Robert Jacob Griggs | Mar 28, 2020 |
Rather than lament on the gloomy state of the world and my lost senior spring, I’d prefer to write a bit about the second largest struggle in my life besides emotionally processing everything: the catastrophic ruins of what used to be my schedule. You see, before...
by Robert Jacob Griggs | Mar 22, 2020
When I left for Florida to begin my senior spring break, the coronavirus was in the news. It obviously was not concerning enough to the vast majority of us to prevent us from going on our respective trips, be it with PLA or otherwise. But it became clear after a few...
by Robert Jacob Griggs | Feb 28, 2020 |
This is the next installment in my series of blogs that document going through the stages of grief of a second semester senior. In this chapter, I begin coming to terms with the fact that my term in student government is coming to a close, and with it the end of...
by Robert Jacob Griggs | Feb 7, 2020 |
The concept of having to write a senior thesis for Schreyer was always a distant concept for me. For one thing, I didn’t actually think I’d be coming to Penn State and as such never applied to Schreyer as an incoming freshman. I decided to do the Paterno Fellows...
by Robert Jacob Griggs | Feb 2, 2020 |
Last Friday, I got on a 6am flight with several other members of student government headed toward Philly and, eventually, Indianapolis. After about an hour drive from a very kind member of Indiana’s student government, we arrived in Bloomington for what would be my...
by Robert Jacob Griggs | Jan 19, 2020 |
As we begin this spring semester, I imagine that I am far from the only senior to be reflecting that this is the semester where everything has a “last” in front of it: last first day of classes, last syllabus week, etc. Also in the back of my mind is the...
by Robert Jacob Griggs | Dec 8, 2019
I really appreciated us taking time (ha) in class to discuss various areas of time management and the different things we all do to maximize the limited time we have. It was reassuring to see that other people had very similar strategies in the prioritization of the...
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