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Phoenix

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...

How do you quantify involvement and contributions?

As I watch my senior friends finish out their last organization meetings, I’ve been thinking a lot about what they’ve brought to the organizations and activities they were involved in. For Springfield today, all of the graduating seniors gave a speech about their time...

Reflection

I usually have an extremely introspective, reflective, eye-opening post that I actually go back to time and again, but I don’t truly feel that such a post is necessary this semester. I think that this semester was not filled with extremely pivotal moments,...

China’s Devaluing Currency

Something pretty interesting is happening in the international political economy right now. For some time, experts have believed that China has been artificially devaluing its currency (the yuan). This devaluation has allowed China’s price on exports to remain low and...

Technology’s Role In Creativity

In my psych class we talked about technology played a role in creativity. Specifically, how technology could be applied to the 8-stage model of creativity. As a refresher, those 8 stages are: problem construction info gathering conceptual selection conceptual...

Energy

The path I have taken hasn’t always made the most sense, and by that, I mean it hasn’t followed the most logical sequential order. However, some recent fortuitous events are producing an epiphany, of sorts—a profound interest in a subject of great importance that...

New ‘Home’ for Girl Scouts

I had a love-hate relationship with Girl Scouts growing up. The majority of my friends were in my troop, and I loved getting to hang out with them, but there were some parts of the organization that were hard to swallow. That said, I’m glad that I had the opportunity...

The Fear of Missing Out: An End-Of-Year Reflection

The fear of missing out—also known as FOMO—is something that haunts me, and I’m sure a lot of other people can relate. There’s something inherently dreadful about missing out, whether it’s on something small like not being able to go out with your friends or something...