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Finding Good in the End

by | Apr 14, 2024

My last PLA blog post! Like most everything these days, it feels a bit surreal. PLA blogs have been a consistent part of my life for the past three years, but today I write my final one. Goodbyes are hard, and my week ahead marks the start of a few more weeks with...

Balancing Career and Family

by | Apr 3, 2024 | 4 comments

As I sit down to write this blog from my Washington D.C. hotel room on a trip with the International Agriculture minor program, I find my mind wandering ahead to the future that awaits following graduation, which now is only roughly four and a half weeks away. In just...

Flowers on the Table

by | Mar 16, 2024 | 1 comment

I write this from my home in State College, one of the few weekends this semester where I get to be back at PSU during my student teaching internship. I love it here, and in addition to seeing friends/mentors there is just something so refreshing about being back in...

A Weekend Field Trip

by | Feb 19, 2024 | 2 comments

This past weekend was a busy one for me, though not for the same reason as most other Penn Staters (congratulations to everyone who was involved with THON this past weekend…I am so proud of you!). On Saturday and Sunday, I traveled along with my student teaching...

Lessons from Abbott Elementary

by | Feb 5, 2024 | 4 comments

Recently, I’ve been getting into the show Abbott Elementary. One of the perks of living where I am during student teaching is that the teacher I am staying with has a variety of streaming services, many of which I have never really had access to before. Abbott...

Recommendations from High School

by | Jan 21, 2024 | 1 comment

Over the past two weeks, I have begun my student teaching internship at Athens Area High School in Athens, PA. Athens sits about 2 minutes south of the Pennsylvania – New York state border, and is about 2.5 hours northeast of State College (and about 4 hours...

A Trip to Phoenix

by | Dec 1, 2023

I write this post from Songbird Coffee/Tea, a cool cafe in downtown Phoenix that has become something of a morning respite in the midst of a busy week. I’m in Arizona for the National Association of Agricultural Educators (NAAE) conference with the rest of the...

Things I Miss From Home

by | Nov 5, 2023 | 1 comment

As I sit with my laptop watching the Eagles game (hoping and praying with all I’m worth that they pull out a win against the Cowboys), I am catching my breath from a busy past few weeks. I have had the opportunity to participate in two week-long travel...

World Food Prize

by | Oct 24, 2023 | 3 comments

Hi everyone! I hope that your week has been going well. It is difficult for me to wrap my mind around the fact that we are almost in November. This year especially, October is a busy month for me. I am spending a little more than 2 weeks traveling in the Midwest for...

Paying Student Teachers

by | Oct 6, 2023

Hi everyone, I hope you are all settling in well in the return from the NYC trip. Every time I go on a PLA trip, I am always grateful for the connections and genuine friendships I make. It was a lot of fun in NYC this past weekend exploring the city, attending...