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Whipple Dam State Park

Just like the rest of Centre County PA, I took full advantage of the beautiful Saturday weather. Mother Nature has been quite moody and the snow at the beginning of the week saw me flipping out and certain that there would be no spring! After what seemed to be an...

The Top Three Reasons I Love Going Home

Like most people this weekend, I was one of the many thousands of students who made the mass exodus out of State College to head home for Easter weekend. I knew it was going to be a short visit and I had a lot of work to finish, but my family was looking forward to...

Fake It ’til You Make It

This is my second semester being a TA. I have absolutely no interest in going into academia, but the professor who asked me to help out is one of my favorite people in the world I couldn’t say no to her. So I found myself attending Crystal Chemistry for the...

Spring Break: An Eventful 7 Days

The common question that gets asked after spring break is “Did you have a good break?” I feel like I’ve been asked this a million times and now have a well-rehearsed, scripted response: eventful. VERY eventful…. My break started early on...

The First Grad School Visit

This week, my Friday ended not with my typical RPTM 120 class, but with an all expenses paid dinner at the American Ale House. My alarm went off at 7 am and by 8 am I was traipsing through the rain towards the Nittany Lion Inn to attend my first graduate open house;...

Coming Home

This week I forced myself to be more proactive as usually. I made the decision to come home for the weekend and worked feverishly to get my work done so I could have an open 2 days to spend at home. The was no special reason for my trek home; I had considered it but...

PASA Conference

This Saturday I attended the annual conference hosted by the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA). Every February, the Penn Stater Conference Center is filled with farmers from all of Pennsylvania, seed vendors, farm suppliers, restaurants, and...

Who Knew There was a Class on Playtime?

I firmly believe that there are somethings that cannot be taught. For example, it’s impossible to teach someone how to be creative, or how to be an entrepreneur, or how schmooze bankers on Wall Street. I also think it’s impossible to teach someone how to...

What Does the Last Semester Look Like?

My last silly week came and went. It took me five days to figure out my schedule, I dropped two classes, added a graduate class, and emailed my adviser about 10 times about my degree audit because I was paranoid about not graduating. You know your adviser is sick of...

Back to Seattle

Touchdown. I hopped off the plane and was met with a blast of cool air and rain. Seattle never disappoints, that’s for sure. This was my second time back in Seattle, only this time, it was for a job offer with The Boeing Company and not for a PLA trip. Boeing hired...