How Losing Your Dogs Can Build A Community
This past weekend I stepped away from being a campus leader for a day, and was able to make it to a family party nearby. It was my brother and his wife’s housewarming party. I was so excited! I was about to check out their new house, hang out with family members, play with my […]
6 Ways to a Healthy Heart That are Quicker Than Eating Cheerios
My friend and I were walking down the street in the Financial District when we passed a man with a sign saying “I’m homeless, please help. God bless.” He is there every day, and it is a surprise if he is not sitting in the same spot on the sidewalk on any given morning. My […]
How Your Organization Can Make Someone Laugh, Think, or Be Moved to Tears Today
As campus leaders, we can all learn a lesson from Jimmy Valvano’s 1993 ESPY Speech on how he lived with cancer: “To me there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend […]
The Friends You Make In Your First Year are… Different
As I was running down the ramp to attempt to barely make a train at Grand Central, another woman was running beside me. The doors of the train closed before we reached them, and we both just stopped, disappointed. Suddenly the doors popped back open and we both went “OH!!” and started running again to […]
Giving People the Place to Be Themselves
On Friday, I was walking down Broadway, rushing to get back from an errand towards the end of the workday, in typical NYC fashion. Knit brow, moving at a fast clip, thinking about how many more steps it would take back to my building. As I approached my destination, I saw a man cleaning the street. […]
Small Talk, Big Impact for New Students
Over the weekend, I spent time with my boyfriend’s brothers and close friends at a BBQ. I always have a great time hanging out with this group, though I don’t know a lot of the people too closely yet. I am still, to many of them, a new addition to the group. Luckily for me, […]
Trader Joes Gave Me A Free Sample And A Life Lesson
Like a Pavlovian dog, any time I enter into Trader Joe’s, I make my way to the free sample counter to see what delicacy they are handing out to the masses. Today was no different, and the savory treat I devoured was a melted cheese pretzel. After washing the pretzel down with another sample of […]
5 Schools Remembering September 11th Today
It’s a day of reflection and a day of great pain for all of us. It is also a day for us to come together as a family, like these campuses did today, to show love and support. 1. Marquette University Memorial Ceremony on campus at Marquette. Look at all of the students who came […]
Is Facebook Making My Brain Bigger?
We mammals have a unique part of our brain called the neocortex that separates us from every other animal on the planet. Among mammals, neocortex sizes vary greatly and humans having the largest neocortex. The research is still not yet definitive as to why humans are the largest. The most popular theory, created by biologist […]