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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Life Goal–Achieved
It’s finally happened…I have finally had a child named after me! A little back story. This year I am an intern in our Office of Community Engagement and Scholarship (OCES). OCES is the product of a merger between the Sharpe Community Scholars Program and our Office of Volunteer Services–so it’s awesome. As an intern I…
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Gotcha
Today, at the beginning of Psychology class, my professor said: “Before we start, I have a few questions to ask:” “How many of you were born in Virginia?” Most of us raised our hands. “How many of you were born in the USA?” Almost all of us raised our hands. “One last question—why are you…
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Harry Potter is My Role-model and Other More Embarrassing Confessions
So in college we read a lot. Seriously, I once tried to calculate how many total pages I’ve read thus far, and it was just too massive. Most of us came to college as readers and most of the time I find my class readings to be pretty interesting, but it’s never the same is…
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Distractions
What do I love about my room? The view. I am currently supposed to be working on my Anthropology paper about male models in print-ads (cool right?) but am happily distracted by the two dogs chasing after a ball that someone out of my view is throwing. Oh, the chocolate lab was clearly the winner…
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TWAMPY Moment of the Day
In case you don’t know, TWAMP stands for Typical William and Mary Person: that lovable mix of nerdy awkward highly motivated-ness that makes us members of the Tribe. Not every moment is a TWAMP moment, but lots of them are. Today, I got to class early and shared with my Sociology buddies that classes were…
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Why I Fell In Love With The Marketplace…
Move-in day my first year at W&M I made a very important decision I have abided by ever since. At lunch with my new hallmates, I decided that I would not eat any pizza from the dining halls. I’d been warned of the freshmen fifteen, and I thought this one small choice could make all…
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Do I Know You?
One of the great predicaments of a college our size is the “Do I know you?” moments. See on a campus this small it’s likely that you will know a lot of students from classes, activities, and general life, but on a campus this large sometimes it’s hard to keep track of how you know…
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Dull Day
For the most part all of us blog about the amazing exciting adventures we have during our time at William & Mary (and abroad), and adventure is a big part of our life here at the college but not all of it. I want to provide a bit of perspective because sometimes college life is…
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Top 10 Things About Being A PFOA
This year I had an incredible time staffing Orientation as a Programming and Family Orientation Aide. Here are a few highlights in no particular order. 1. A giant game of “Telephone” that left us falling out of our chairs-literally 2. A long debate over whether we should focus on quantity or quality when buying ice-pops…
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Home
I try not to give advice too often, but I’ve been thinking about it for a while and on this piece I think most of my college friends will back me up. For those of you enjoying your last home summer before college-soak up as much of it as you can. Perhaps some of you…
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Yes, I did eat macaroni and cheese with President Reveley
Tuesday night was the annual Summer Supper hosted by the Charlottesville-Ashland’s Alumni chapter to welcome the newest class of Tribe members, and it was my third time attending the event. As an incoming student the first year I was a little nervous but so excited to be involved in something William and Mary. The second…
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‘Cause this is Thriller Part 2
If you remember an earlier blog, students and faculty at the College of William and Mary attempted to break the record for the most number of participants dancing together to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” at the end of April. Well we just found out on Friday that the attempt was a success! How, you might ask,…
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Moving Out and other random thoughts
I have officially begun the daunting task of unpacking all of my college stuff into my room at home, as if packing up my dorm room wasn’t hard enough. Technically I moved out on Wednesday, but I have been giving myself downtime before dealing with the unpacking process. Move-out day was gorgeous. The campus is…
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One of those William and Mary Moments
I just wanted to share with you a random act of kindness on campus today that is why we always talk about William and Mary as a community, and why I consider it my extended family. I was standing in line to buy lunch, and the student in front of me discovered that he had…
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‘Cause this is thriller, thriller night
What a great use of a Sunday afternoon. To me the story I’m about to tell epitomizes the kind of ridiculously one-day adventures William and Mary students come up with. Today, students and faculty at the College of William and Mary attempted to break the record for the most people performing Michael Jackson’s Thriller (I…
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