A 2011 alumna who now serves as Assoc. Director in W&M Civic & Community Engagement
Read about my undergraduate memories and lessons learned; recaps of programs and adventures with Civic & Community Engagement; reflections on life as an alumna and staff member and my deep love and commitment to William & Mary.
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Craving a Blue Book
It’s easy to feel the countdown to Thanksgiving Break in the air on campus. For many students, getting to Thanksgiving Break is cause for celebration because it means getting through midterms and paper assignments that always seem to stack up this time of year. Unfortunately for some, Thanksgiving Break will be the time when they…
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Lunch Plans
So I went shopping on Sunday and here is what I bought…
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Ode to the Sociology Department
The Sociology classroom experience at William and Mary is the one I think of most often when I am longing to return to my undergraduate academic life because in Sociology classrooms I found myself excited, engaged, and challenged.
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Learn Everything You Can
I’m sitting in The Media Center in the basement of Swem (I mean, “Ground Floor”) working on a really cool new project, The Speak Up Series, that I’ll be telling you about soon, but for now I just wanted to add a brief post. There are some really great things about moving from student to…
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Entering with Expectations
Hello Again W&M Blogosphere, I know I should be regaling you with stories from my summer (which was amazing) or giving you the inside scoop on ‘Operation Return to William and Mary as an Americorp’ which officially begins in 8 days, but as I was packing up my room for the move back to Williamsburg,…
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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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