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New Year

Each semester I think it’s important to set goals so that you have small things to work towards. As there is always something to improve upon, I’m looking to minimize the number of these to a practical amount so that I can complete all of them. Last semester was a big...

Meeting New People

This weekend, one of the organizations I am involved in, Camp Kesem, had a canning trip down in Philly. Recently we brought in our new members for the year so this became more of a getting to know each other trip. It was a great weekend, full of fun activities. We...

Honestly I might make a TikTok

I am not one to post content on social media often. Maybe a picture or two whenever something really important happens in life and even then it’s usually a month late. Often I think I should just enjoy the moments and not worry about taking a picture of any of it… and...

Growing Up

   “Yes but you never made your dreams come true, you failed”   This is a thought that occurred to me many times throughout my junior and senior year of high school about my mother. She works a lower middle-class job, not in a teaching position, the field in...

New Year

As we turn new leaf, both in year and in our time here at Penn State, I want to reflect on a common past time of many people throughout the world, the New Year’s resolution. As I sure many of you know, this is when you plan to make a change to your life in the new...

Harmony in Professional Work

This past week our speaker talked about the difference between leadership and management. While leaders are to create a vision, drive motivation among peers or employees, and build trust, managers are supposed to set these visions in motion by organizing resources and...

When is Compromise not acceptable?

Back in freshman year, when applying to PLA, there was a question on the application about Yale’s Calhoun College, which was named in honor of John C. Calhoun. At the time there was a debate among the student population and the College whether to change that name or...

We aren’t heard

This post is dated so ignore time references   Just this past month, Donald Trump declared that the opioid crisis was a health emergency, however he failed to make an attempt to provide funding for this battle. Given that opioids kill over 100 Americans everyday...

Companies and Action

Given that last week was the engineering career fair and that I desperately need an internship, you can bet I spent a lot of time getting to know a decent amount of companies, their values, and what kind of candidate they are looking for. While looking into the...

On My Honor

On a late night in London, of the year 1909, the fog had settled heavy on the city, obscuring the world to those even with the most keen sight. The locals were used to this and could still navigate, knowing their streets by memory, however there was one man, William...