In 2018, as my job as manager of the seasonal not-for-profit community-owned restaurant in my town was coming to a close, I decided to apply to college. It was September 7th, classes had already started, and I had no idea whether St. Lawrence College would even acknowledge my application let alone approve it. It had […]
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St. Lawrence College shares more with the classic TV-show bar Cheers (ask your Mom) than just being run by a silver-haired fox. Driven by its newest strategic pillar, belonging, the campuses of St. Lawrence College are someplace where it’s very possible everybody knows your name. When I first came to St. Lawrence College I did
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It’s hard to know if Robert Burns had any idea how oft-repeated would be this phrase when he wrote it, still clutching his plough in the most famous telling, after destroying the wintering home of a little mouse while turning over a field, but I would wager there are few native English speakers who do
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As the saying goes. But it’s wrong, of course, both the original saying and the idea that we (or dogs) lose the ability to learn at some point in our lives. This blog isn’t here to challenge the concept of neuroplasticity, of course, but it is here to advocate for life-long learning and its merits.
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When in the course of blogging events it becomes necessary to abandon the draft of a blog and change gears the best reasons to do so is because you won a Greg award. Not the blogging award, but still (that deservedly went to Sierra’s To Kill a Mocking Nerd). The Spirit of the Gregs is
I was first introduced to Brené Brown by a friend last summer when I was having a particularly difficult time. She recommended the book The Gifts of Imperfection and recommended that I learn more about this woman who bills herself as a researcher-storyteller (in fact if you google those two words together you come up
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This isn’t my first foray into blogging. I’ve been doing it since before the term existed, back when we called these things “online journals” (my LiveJournal account was opened May 27, 2000) and through the brief transition from “weblog” (which originated to tell readers of something interesting you’d found online) to blogging as it is
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The decision to return to school has been one of the biggest, most impactful decisions I have made for my life in a very long time. I have always loved learning, and I don’t think I ever stopped even after my first college diploma, even after I entered the job market and even after I
