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to gif or not to gif…
I am fascinated by the gif. By far, it is my favorite medium on the interwebs. A good gif loads well, is not long, and tells an amazing story or makes you bust out laughing – all without sound....
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the youth of the urban…
As a relatively new major urban center implant (sorry Columbus, but COTA does not qualify you for consideration in this blog), this story (when I first saw it all the way back in May) caught my eye....
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the casual workplace…
I have made it clear many times to many of my colleagues that I dislike dressing up for work, that the idea of potentially wearing a suit more often than every three months is something I cringe at. A...
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back to our regularly scheduled soccer programming…
I’m late, late for a very important date! I’ve missed the start of the English Premier League season, now on crappy NBC, with my annual soccer kit fashion review! But alas, here it is! So, please...
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on passion and squirrels and shiny things…
I missed #sachat yesterday, one in which I intended to participate after our staff Halloween Party, simply because of the headline: “Is Passion a dirty word in Student Affairs?” How could I resist...
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harvest of the talking heads…
In our field, there are seasons… August thru October is evil season, May-June is the time of hellos and goodbyes (hello to parents, goodbye to seniors)… and for many, spring is conference season,...
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be the comma,
This past weekend was the ACUI Region 1 2013 Conference at Wesleyan University in CT. As usual, it was a great experience, and it is hard to keep saying that I felt like I was with a large extended...
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writing about writing…
I don’t necessarily have writers block, it’s just that I have defeated myself and flunked my writing before I even sat down with a set of gifs and a martini. I have topics and ideas, and I like to say...
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writing about reading…
Stealing from and inspired by the wondrous Amma Marfo and spurred on by GoodReads doing a book challenge for the year, I have now added a Books page to my blog to track what I have read (and hopefully...
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mooc up…
While I consider myself mildly obsessed with MOOCs and all that they represent and why higher education and the ivory tower feels this intense need to attack them, I have not had much luck taking them....
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do you even history, yo…
So, in an effort to try and be more regular in blogging, I have decided to pick a certain day on which to do so. Thanks to the never-ending-idea-machine that is Amma Marfo, who uses Marfo Mondays to...
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getting organized…
Humpday Grumpday Post time. Grumpday So, Mike Coleman retweeted a Jennifer Keegin tweet that led to her latest blog post about a organizational technique called Bullet Journaling. Bullet Journaling...
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when, where, and what to worry about…
Humpday Grumpday blog post time. I forgot to take a picture of the angry polar bears Eugene drew me. Updates later. Having gotten through almost a year and half at MIT, I still have no clue what the...
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on video games and creativity…
Having no cable, and only subscriptions to Hulu and Netflix, it leaves a lot of time in the house for Reddit, YouTube, reading, and video games. I recently started playing Fallout 3 again, a...
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getting gif-y with it…
I wrote over the summer about Vine, Twitter’s 6 second video making service that debuted right around the same time as Instagram Video, neither of which have completely taken off, even though YouTube...
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on traditions and environment…
Humpday Grumpday post time. Oh my goodness, I am about to write a blog post that utilizes student development theory… luckily not about Chickering though. Campus ecology and campus environments was...
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on overloading the twitter warp drive…
Social media and Twitter in particular are great tools for introverts in our field, offering a way to build a network in a more stealth mode than the super crowded cocktail hour where chit chat must...
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adulthood will kick your…
This morning, while this is auto-posting, I will be sitting in a Boston courtroom representing my condo association, because the City of Boston decided to sue us for not being safe enough. If this...
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Some #SATech Picks for #ACUI14
I did not get around to my usual Wednesday blogpost this week, particularly because the 2014 ACUI International Conference is coming up very quickly, starting Sunday, April 6th down at the Marriott...
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a grumpy send off…
The return of Humpday Grumpday blog posts. This last Saturday was MIT’s SpringFest concert, which saw me moving and shaking from 6am-230am, and overall, the show went nice and smooth, with all the work...
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