Category: Student Blogs
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Because of Community: Professor Jennifer Bickham Mendez
This post is written by Caitlyn Whitesell ’20, who serves as the communication intern for OCE. She interviewed Professor Jennifer Bickham-Mendez in Fall 2019. Professor Bickham-Mendez researches Latinx studies, race, class gender, social movements, and more in William & Mary’s sociology department. Through her research, she engages directly with the Williamsburg community to serve the…
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Finding the Meaning of Life
I asked Sonia Kinkhabwala ’21, recipient of the President’s Award for Community Service and member of the Aim 4 civic leadership program, to share her reflections on this moment in her William & Mary story. “We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.” – Thomas Merton…
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Words from an Active Citizen
From these experiences with Branch Out I learned that service is a continuous process rather than a single act, one that must be approached with care and intention.
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Success Awaits You
It may not be in form you expected, but know that success is waiting for you here.
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Unexpected Gifts
I met Katie Robeson my first day at William and Mary (Well actually we met for the first time at a high-school Forensics competition, but I didn’t remember that–oops) and while she’ll be annoyed at me for posting this, I was convinced we wouldn’t be friends. I was pretty sure she was just too cool…
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Overheard @ W&M
Another reason to love our faculty.
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Our little secret (that I’m publicly posting)
Don’t tell my history professor this, but my attempts tonight to eloquently propose a museum exhibit which thoughtfully explores alternative interpretations of Native American activism in the 1960s has not been so successful. I blame it on location. Working at the same computer in Tyler Hall for the past three hours, the computer next to…
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Since We Can’t All be Facebook Friends
There’s much more to share about this weekend, but I thought for now I would post my Facebook status from Saturday’s Day for Admitted Students. Feel free to “like” it in your mind (or the comment box below :P) Four years ago today, I realized that W&M was the place for me. This is my…
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GERs and Gazing at Stars
I hope you take a moment this evening to look up at the stars and know that if you can already identify the Big Dipper, Cassiopeia, or Orion, or know to turn to someone next you and have them point it out, then you are already on track for a successful college experience.
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Consider the Following
Consider the following: Thursday evening I spent two hours with two friends laughing and learning from the incredible Bill Nye. That’s right, the Bill Nye. I learned about sundials, mars-dials, model planes, deep-space exploration, bubbles in Antarctic ice, building bridges out of carbon, solar panels, the expansiveness of the Universe, how to get rich, and…
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Go Colonial
Buy a bonnet, take a walk, drink your cider, pose with a chicken, and appreciate as much as you can the incredible experience that is having Colonial Williamsburg as your backyard.
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Making My Outfit Matter
Normally I stop myself from the vanity of reporting about my outfit, but today is different. Today, over 300 students (myself included) made a very conscious fashion decision by wearing matching t-shirts. Here’s mine… In case you can’t read it, (sorry, my computer camera isn’t that awesome) the shirt says: “gay? fine by me.” Yesterday,…
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Always Do What Your Boss Tells You
Moral of the story: Always listen to your boss or the universe will punish you and Justin Bieber will be sad.
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Quotable
In which my professor demands a whole other level of analysis from the class
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Me and Mr. Bieber
“I’m tell ya one time” that this blog may not be what it appears.