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White-Out Energy

Scrolling on Instagram, coming across the post that James Franklin was calling for “white-out energy”, I giggled to myself and immediately sent the post to my friends. White-out energy? Come on. Plus, I was annoyed that we had now added another white outfit to the...

Embracing Rejection

Having been rejected from a few different positions over the past few months, I’ve been in a little bit of a lull. It’s disappointing to put your time and energy into an application to then be told that you weren’t right for the job, especially when you know that you...

A Fallen NYPD Officer

About a week ago, NYPD Officer Johnathan Diller was fatally shot during a traffic stop, leaving behind a wife and a 1 year old son. As someone born and raised in NYC, this story has been all over my social media feeds for the past week. From aerial pictures of the...

Student Keynote Speaker

On Saturday, I was invited to be a part of an Eberly College of Science event that honored the college’s largest donors. In the afternoon, I sat on a student panel that represented the different co-curricular activities that Eberly offers and later in the evening, I...

Involuntarily Taking It Easy

I’ve written many blogs about my involvement in THON, so I’m sure it’s not really a surprise that I have been insanely busy trying to prepare for the big weekend. I’m trying to get ahead on all of my assignments so that I don’t have to worry about anything other than...

Birthdays!!

Now that February has officially begun, my mind remains focused on the subject of birthdays. Not only is mine at the end of the month (the big 2 1!!), but I have so many friends and family who also get to celebrate this month. One thing that’s always been super...

Unproductive Productivity

With a scheduled 3-day weekend, followed by an impromptu cancellation of classes resulting from the snow day, I fully expected to catch up on my work this past weekend. I had a to-do list of all of the assignments that I needed to have done by Sunday and I set a goal...

Treasure Every Adventure

Today was THON’s Family Carnival – a beautiful day where our Four Diamond’s families get to spend a day with THON volunteers, filled with all kinds of fun activities. As I am once again a Captain on the Hospitality Committee, I had the pleasure of returning to...

The Defrosting of Mariah Carey

Now that Halloween is over, my mind has immediately shifted to Christmas-mode. With some light snow flurries falling over State College on the first day of November, that feeling was a little stronger than usual this year.  I absolutely love the holiday season....

CAS100C (& others like it)

I consider myself a scientist. I’ve always been drawn to the “correctness” of questions in science. On exams, your answer is right or wrong, and there aren’t many scenarios where you’re attempting to convince a professor that their answer keys are wrong. (Aside from...