Every class has its own personality and its own set of personalities. Over the course of a semester the personality comes into its own and by the end of the semester it is typically ripe. Today was the last day of my regular classes this semester. On the last day of my classes the students do a hot wash [...]
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I am outcome-focused…
I missed Parade Magazine's annual report on the amount of money folks across the U.S. make. I wasn't all that disappointed about missing it as it always left me feeling like a loser - well, at least as far as income goes. But then I remind myself that not everything is about money and I move on. The [...]
My fountain of youth…
The school year is winding down - which means that everything reaches a fever pitch. The end of a semester never arrives peacefully and the end of each spring semester seems to carry the most excitement of all as students and faculty daydream about the long, lazy days of summer. Yet there is still so much to [...]
TGISB!
A good portion of the working world has weekends off. This is undoubtedly the reason the acronym TGIF! (Thank God It's Friday!) has become so widely used. Sometimes after a long week one just has to acknowledge that absent the week ending they would likely not be able to endure another minute of whatever made [...]
Loss.
Today, NDSU mourns the loss of four students killed in an automobile accident yesterday - Danielle Renninger, Jordan Playle, Lauren Peterson and Megan Sample. The sudden loss of these four young women has been met by a wave of support from across the community and the state. In such a trying time I am gratified that the [...]
I found God…
I found God inside a bathroom stall. God came to me via a yellow sticky note attached to the inside of a bathroom stall door in the Memorial Union at NDSU. Now I must say, as someone who has never been a fan of bathroom stall graffiti, that I appreciate post-it note graffiti's ability to provide [...]
Taking Betty White’s name in vain…
In an effort to build strong relationships and to reinforce lessons on leadership in my Disaster Response class, I do a series of "tag" sessions where each student answers a simple question that tells the class something about who they are, how they see themself or what they believe. After a student answers a question they call [...]
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