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School Me vs. Home Me

Whenever I go home for a weekend (like I just did), I always feel a little uneasy when I walk into my house; I’m always in a bit of a “funk” for a little while. I’ve never been great at handling change. It’s not that I’m dreading to be home, but rather that I haven’t...

Monotasking

Throughout this entire week, my mind was being pulled in a hundred different directions. From important questions like “Should I run for Blue Band President” and “What the heck do I want to do for a career” to dumb thoughts like “Damn. I love Africa by Toto” and “Let...

Being Connected

I want to throw away my phone. I will never seriously do it, but I sometimes get really tired of always being connected. A lot of the time, I find myself scrolling through Facebook on my phone and realize that I don’t care whatsoever about what I just read. Do I...

Professional Development

Shirt Ironed… Check! Tie Picked Out… Check! Resumes Edited… Check! Potential Employers Identified …. Check! Elevator Pitch Ready … Check! Actual Plan for the Future… Nope!   Happy Fall Career Fair week, everybody! Don’t let the...

Game Day: A Timeline

5:23 AM – buzz… Buzz… BUZZ…BUZZ!  First alarm of the morning goes off. Ryan snoozes the remaining fourteen alarms set on his phone and jump out of bed and puts on his “Gameday Hype” Spotify playlist. He takes a shower and shaves his face (because the...

Golden Circle

Happy Fall Semester, everyone! Hope all of your summers were super fulfilling and rejuvenating.   In his 2010 TED Talk “How Great Leaders Inspire Action”, Simon Sinek introduces the concept of the golden circle (pictured below). In the center of the concentric...

Being Lowkey Trashy

In most of my PLA blog posts, I at least try a little bit to sound intellectual and have valuable insights to share about whatever topic we are discussing in class, or I try to be genuine and express whatever existential crisis I’m going through that week. Yet this...

Philanthropy at Penn State

Penn State is built on Philanthropy. The land that makes up the University Park campus came from a donation from a farmer from Bellefonte. The Ice Arena and Hockey Teams came from an $88 million dollar gift from the Pegula Family. And the “For the Future” philanthropy...

Sustainability, Adaptability, and Audacity

Going into our first class on Tuesday, I was a little apprehensive for two reasons: 1) I had never taken a class that lasted longer than 75 minutes and was worried about sitting through two hours; and 2) our class is taught by the president of the university. Not many...

Crunch Time

Welp. Here it is – crunch time for drafting, formatting, editing, proofreading, double-checking, triple-checking, and ultimately turning in the policy paper. While, admittedly, I haven’t totally written my portion of the paper yet, we’ll be entirely finished by this...