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The Inconvenience of Emotions

This week’s blog post is a reflection on something I read in Jasmine Bowen’s (of the PLA Zeta Class) blog post. Jasmine had recently watched Exodus—a PBS documentary recounting the “moving first-person stories of individuals fleeing Syria, Afghanistan, and Gambia,...

Judgment

Unfortunately, I missed class last week due to illness.  So, when it came time to write my blog, I wasn’t sure what my topic should be.  I contemplated at least 100 different ones before deciding they weren’t relevant or I wouldn’t be able to discuss them enough. ...

For The Kids

I just got home from spending the weekend at THON, and while I can probably write a 50 page paper on how incredible this weekend was, I’d like to focus on an aspect of THON that correlates with PLA: leadership. This weekend I had a family come up to me and they...

Up A Wall

This weekend, I found myself, once again, in the New River Gorge, this time with a new set of friends. My best friend Ajeeth said he was looking to do a trip to the gorge and said I should come and bring friends. Ajeeth is a major climber and I always join him when I...

Life Is Too Short

At around 3 am, I woke up suddenly to my phone buzzing. I was sick with a fever, so in my haze, I couldn’t tell if I was dreaming or if in fact I was getting a barrage of texts messages. Turns out, it was reality. I opened my phone to my best friend Abbey...

Hate Speech Contemplation

I recently watched the new NIKE ad. for equality, which features many famous athletes of different races, ethnicities, and genders. It highlights the inconsistency of society’s portrayal of marginalized groups. We love Serena Williams when she wins the U.S. Open...

Reflections on Free Speech

As we all know, the PLA is a program which seeks to examine the “gray” issues in life, and there are few areas with more gray than the topic of free speech. This week in class, the Provost for Educational Equity, Dr. Marcus Whitehurst, spoke with us about...

FT[insert anything other than Kids]

Now for my yearly blog post about my feelings about Penn State’s Panhellenic Dance Marathon (TM). I’m not going to bother talking about anything that’s good about THON. We all know all of the good stuff already. Honestly, now that we’re...

The Job Hunt

I feel as though I have reach a particularly unique point in my life. I finished my major courses last semester and am taking only eight credits right now to complete my two minors. It is amazing to have a lot of free time after being in school, well, basically...

Who is being silenced?

Political correctness, freedom of speech, and equity, three issues that have become very intertwined as issues on college campuses. For this blog I’m going to over-generalize the stakeholder in this conflict as the left and the right. As of right now the left is...