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How grey will the future be?

by | Apr 21, 2019

After the gong was gonged, a warm timbre of nostalgia reverberated through my conscience. With very few tasks, let alone omnipotent tasks, left to complete before putting a cap on my time at Penn State, I feel a very pressing sense of longing to continue to be with my...

A nudge in the pro-science direction

by | Apr 14, 2019 | 2 comments

This blog post may sound a bit similar to one I posted 3 weeks ago, but for a very good reason… I recently attended another wonderful sustainability showcase series, this time featuring Communications professor Lee Ahern. Lee comes from a background in marketing...

Fashioning what was once unfashionable?

by | Apr 1, 2019 | 4 comments

Is USPS high fashion? That’s a question that I raised to myself after seeing some intriguing pieces released by Forever 21 over the past month or so. From the express mail hoodie to the priority mail clutch, Forever 21 quite blatantly objectifies and...

How many sounds per gallon do your vocal cords get?

by | Mar 24, 2019 | 2 comments

This past Friday, I had the pleasure of attending Dr. Peter Newman’s Sustainability Showcase series talk, eating a yummy (and sustainably packaged) lunch, and having a nice chat with the Melissa all in the matter of an hour. While I always enjoy seeing the PLA...

World Traveling: Literally and Figuratively

by | Mar 12, 2019 | 1 comment

Spring Break is a time for many of us to travel, whether it be home to visit family, or to faraway places with friends. This past spring break I traveled to Berlin, Germany with four of my closest friends, embarking on a week of new discoveries, memorable...

Musical Bibliographies

by | Feb 3, 2019 | 1 comment

Fundamentally, music is an art-form built off the shoulders of giants. The future virtuoso grows up playing the music of composers who came centuries before them. The next big Soundcloud rapper gets big off of a freestyle – a type of rap that utilizes a popular beat...

Reflections on an Ancient Friendship

by | Jan 27, 2019 | 1 comment

In my 15+ years of education, I’ve read the Epic of Gilgamesh on four separate occasions. From world literature in freshman year of high school to ancient philosophy in my final semester of undergrad, the ancient myth has appeared and reappeared in curricula as...

My Personal Pile of Trash

by | Jan 14, 2019 | 6 comments

Usually, when throwing something away, I don’t think any more than asking “can this be recylcled?”. Never had I stopped to quantify exactly how much I was throwing away, nor tally up the number of items I threw away or recycled each day. However, over the past 4 days,...

I can learn a lot from Ike

by | Oct 28, 2018

“Leadership is the ability to decide what has to be done, and then get people to want to do it” The above quote from General Dwight Eisenhower gave a lot of structure and direction to Dr. Causland’s presentation. The definition is simple yet conveys...