by Shannon Greenbaum | Apr 14, 2017
This week, my boyfriend and I had an involved discussion about his summer internship. He worked at a paper mill in Tennessee. I had no idea what the paper making process entailed and decided to do some research, Surprisingly, it is more involved than I originally...
by Shannon Greenbaum | Mar 21, 2017 |
While doing a recent running workout and talking to my crossfit trainer Tom, I happened to make a remark about having to work harder to cut the fat out of my diet. His immediate reaction was, “NO, DON’T DO THAT.” The United States has become a health crazed calorie...
by Shannon Greenbaum | Feb 24, 2017 |
My mother is an amazing cook. Of course, after being cooked amazing meals for the majority of my life, I arrived for my freshman year of college able to make pasta, make toast, and scramble eggs. I was able to successfully follow a recipe (with only a few major...
by Shannon Greenbaum | Feb 13, 2017
My freshman year I spent THON in a hospital bed, only getting out to watch the final four on TV. My sophomore year, after not having been involved in THON all year, I used THON weekend to visit a very close friend in Virginia. Junior Spring I spend the entire...
by Shannon Greenbaum | Jan 25, 2017 |
My entire collegiate career I have dreamed about receiving my medal at the Schreyer Honors graduation ceremony. Not only have I helped with the annual “gong ringing” ceremony the last two years, but I have been thinking about my thesis topic since my freshman year....
by Shannon Greenbaum | Nov 20, 2016 |
As finals week is quickly approaching, I have decided to impart some of my wisdom as a senior that I have learned while surviving my last 7 finals week experiences…. Start Early: I practice the art of cramming just as much as the next student. However, finals cramming...
by Shannon Greenbaum | Oct 25, 2016 |
As I sit on my couch watching the third Presidential debate and reading “thinking Fast and Slow,” it is very ironic that I happen to be reading the section entitled “overconfidence.” Many would argue that both candidates on the screen in front of me are supremely...
by Shannon Greenbaum | Sep 21, 2016 |
Last Monday, I, along with many other of my fellow Penn State students, witnessed the madness that is sorority bid day. For those of you who don’t know, bid day is the culmination of a weeklong recruitment process where new members are finally able to meet their new...
by Shannon Greenbaum | Sep 10, 2016
When I first mentioned Donald Trump to my father last summer (this would have been 2015), he scoffed and reminded me that looney people are always leading very early in the election. He didn’t seem to give him another thought and instead went back to reading his...
by Shannon Greenbaum | Sep 4, 2016
I never imagined myself as a cubical kind of gal. In fact, the idea was somewhat nauseating. I hated the idea of being enclosed, working away in a windowless florescent space with no human interaction. An internship that involving cubicles? My worst nightmare....
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