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Last Week as a Penn State Student

As I enter my last week as a Penn State student I have been reflecting a lot on the path that has brought me here. I did not want to go to Penn State.  Most State College Area high school graduates do not want to stay in State College for any longer than necessary....

True Leaders

This week I was in California for some family stuff, so unfortunately I was not in class.  However, I was able to spend some time in my mom’s kindergarten class she teaches in California and it struck me how leadership is modeled in the classroom.  Teachers are the...

American History

For a history major my knowledge of the United States’ presidents is painfully obsolete.  I always found US history boring compared to the history of Europe or South America.  I don’t think it was until I took last semester’s course on President Jefferson that I truly...

It’s Thesis Time

THESIS time!! So for the past Fall and Summer I have worked extensively with the Office of Digital Pedagogy and Scholarship to create the 1968 course being offered this Spring. It is a three credit course that looks at the tumultuous year of 1968 from a global...

Self Care

I am a very goal oriented person.  I like having plans outlined and details tied down in order to efficiently complete and achieve my projects and goals.  I set goals for each day, week, month and year. However, the start to my 2018 year has been less than ideal. I...

The Greatest Leader I Have Ever Known

I wasn’t sure if I was going to blog about my dad at all, but it really has been the biggest change in my life.  All the mourning books, we have received also say talking about it is helpful.  For those of you who do not know, I lost my dad to cancer about three weeks...

21

This weekend I joined the 21 club.  Trying alcohol for the first time besides the wine from Eucharist was thrilling.  I have discussed before my views on Penn State’s binge drinking culture.  However, I think alcohol is treated like a taboo topic instead of put at the...

Junior Year

Do you remember when they said junior year of high school was going to be the hardest year of high school? Between thinking about college applications, studying and taking the SAT and maintaining those AP courses, 11th grade was actually a living hell.  However, no...

D.C. Part 1

I am going to have to break up the D.C. trip over multiple blogs because there are just so many things to talk about.  From the speakers to the sites and of course the food, this was such a great experience.  My favorite aspect of this trip was the African American...

White America

“Let’s speak American” is what Sarah Palin, former governor of Alaska told an interview with CNN, regarding a message we should be sending the incoming Hispanic immigrants. Besides the obvious incongruity of her statement, it sparked the re-emergence of an ongoing...