In December 2017, I set a goal to read 12 books in 2018. Senior year of college and grad school seemed determined to keep me from that goal. But when the semester ended in early December, I realized I was only 2 books away from my goal. And lucky me, I had two books on standby I’d been trying to read all year. Goal Meeting Book Twelve was finished on December 29, two days before the end of the year!
Looking at the list of books I read, it turns out that undergrad and grad school weren’t working against me. One-third of the books I read start to finish were for class purposes (though I didn’t read all the books my undergrad professors wanted me too…) and I even read a classic that I’d been meaning to read for three or so years.
“Make a list of what you want to do, what you want to achieve, and every few weeks check that list and ask am I closer to these goals?” That was the advice a former student in my graduate program gave us at orientation yesterday. My university’s master’s program in Community Journalism is a one-year […]
After four years of undergrad, I learned a lot of small lessons about college life. Things that I never could have predicted I would need to know freshman year. I’m about to start grad school in a couple weeks and I’m sure I’ll be learning more, but for now, here are some of the things I’ve accumulated over the past four years.
Image Credit: Photos from Wookieepedia, Manip by me Note: This post was written in December of 2016, well before The Last Jedi gave us a seemingly definitive answer on Rey’s parentage. I made this post private for a while because it seemed like the debate was over, but I recently took it off private because I realized […]
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