February 2012
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I just finished my final RA recommendation letter...
I have five residents and one great friend applying for this year’s selection. I knew I liked all these students, encouraged them through their application and group interview, and I knew they would make a good RA. I could feel it, but I had yet to gather the words to explain it until recently. Now that I have completed the letters, I realize how awesome they all are. I sincerely hope they...
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January 2012
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WatchWhat do teachers make?
This is beautiful.
Anonymous asked: Do you know where to buy stamps at/near FGCU?
i think i know who to call to get rid of SOPA once and for all
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WatchJohn Hunter puts all the problems of the world on a 4’x5’ plywood board — and lets his 4th-graders solve them. At TED2011, he explains how his World Peace Game engages schoolkids, and why the complex lessons it teaches — spontaneous, and always surprising — go further than classroom lectures can.
Watch this TED talk. It elaborates my previous short StoryCorps post....
“If just one of them gets through, they may save... →
When John Hunter started teaching more than 30 years ago, he wanted to get his students to think about major world issues.
So he invented the World Peace Game. Students are divided into countries, then Hunter gives them a series of global crises — natural disasters, political conflicts — that they solve by collaborating with each other.
Hunter’s classes are remarkably successful at resolving...
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“I felt like you were this little angel on my... →
Scott Wall and his wife, Isabel Sobozinsky-Wall, got their love story down on tape — 20 years before they came to StoryCorps.
It started on New Year’s Eve 1991. Isabel was living in San Francisco but decided to celebrate with some friends in New York City. That’s where she met Scott.
Scott and Isabel hit it off and started dating despite living on different coasts. They eased the distance...
December 2011
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Anonymous asked: with your green eggs and pancakes breakfast. do we have to be living in palmetto to go to it? or can any FGCU residents go?
Anonymous asked: thanks for responding so quickly! :) so would you agree that being in a sorority as well as being an RA would probably not be ideal? i feel like doing both would be a little too hectic
Anonymous asked: what are the work hours like as an RA? does the job allow you to leave campus for some weekends?
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Senior problems?
studentleaderproblems:
I ONLY HAVE ONE MORE SEMESTER?? THIS MEANS THAT MY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT LEADER CAREER IS OVER.
reblog this if you are a blog related to being an...
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ridiculously-awesome:
I wanna follow youu :)
So I lied before…THIS is my new RA blog. <3
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Does anyone know about getting teacher...
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Have any of you (or know someone who has) done...
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“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. And with the...”
– Hillary Clinton on the Universal Deceleration of Human Rights (via becauseofpeople)
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“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
On December 10, 1948 the UN adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Happy human rights day!
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“We declare our right on this earth to be a man, to be a human being, to be...”
– Malcolm X (via cr0c0d1l3xt34rs)
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Student Leader Problems:
studentleaderproblems:
I’m in more places at once than Hermione Granger.
“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
– -Maya Angelou (via thatkindofwoman)