by Emma Grace Sinkoff | May 3, 2020 |
Dear incoming Freshman, As you embark on the next four years of your college undergraduate career, I want to offer some advice I wish I heard four year ago. First, Penn State is a big school. Whether you attended a small or large high school, don’t let the size of...
by Emma Grace Sinkoff | Apr 19, 2020 |
If you happen to watch the news last night (Saturday night), you may have come across the two-hour special event by Global Citizen, titled “One World: Together at Home”. Global Citizen put this event together with appearances made by the Rolling Stones, John Legend,...
by Emma Grace Sinkoff | Apr 12, 2020
This past Wednesday was the first night of Passover. Usually, we spend the holiday with my extended family in New York City and every year we have been together. Even as a college student, I have managed to travel home for Passover. This year was certainly different....
by Emma Grace Sinkoff | Mar 29, 2020 |
By the time this pandemic is over, I will be coming out with the “Sinkoff Cookbook, Quarantine Edition”. With the abundance of food that my family normally doesn’t have in the house, we now have a plethora of ingredients and time to get the creative juices flowing....
by Emma Grace Sinkoff | Mar 22, 2020 |
Things I have observed over the past two weeks: Grocery stores cashiers say “stay safe”, instead of “have a good day”. I was on a run the other day, and two women who were talking with each other said to me as I ran by, “we are all getting our exercise…6 feet apart”,...
by Emma Grace Sinkoff | Feb 29, 2020 |
This weekly blog is inspired by the article that was shared with us by Kristine, titled “You are either Listening You’re not”, by Andrew Forsthoefel. His work is a poignant piece about how people communicate with each other and how intentional listening can have a...
by Emma Grace Sinkoff | Feb 9, 2020 |
My family loves to cook. My dad’s mom, in particular, was a fabulous cook, and passed her love for cooking down to her four children, who have now brought their love for cooking into their own families. To my family, cooking is a symbol of coming together, and...
by Emma Grace Sinkoff | Feb 2, 2020 |
Aside from the PLA trips and the few trips abroad through embedded programs, I never had the chance to study abroad in college. More so, I didn’t make it a priority to move my schedule around so I could study abroad in college. Still, when I talk to people about their...
by Emma Grace Sinkoff | Jan 19, 2020
In the hebrew language, the saying “L’dor V’dor” is translated into “from generation to generation”. More importantly, this saying signifies the passing on of rituals, traditions, and knowledge that are upheld from each generation to continue the customs and...
by Emma Grace Sinkoff | Dec 8, 2019 |
In our class last week with President Barron, we spoke about whether or not it would be beneficial or detrimental to build a cultural and diversity center that could be considered a “melting pot”, in its efforts to bring together different diverse backgrounds on Penn...
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