RISE

This year I was given the opportunity to help facilitate a conference called RISE which was focused around the 7-habits of highly effective people. There was a main facilitator who taught the rest of us exactly what the 7-habits were and how we can apply them to our everyday lives to become better leaders and…

Special Events Co-Director

After serving as the Vice President of Program Board my junior year, I was thankful to be given the opportunity to be Special Event Co-Director with Skyler Conran during my first semester of senior year. I was excited to take on this position for a few reasons, at this point I was the only returning…

THRIFT, BUT MAKE IT FASHION

One of the course for the Event Management minors is an Event Production class which is a Service Learning course. We start with a zero-base budget and are asked to make up a new event from scratch. Any profits that are made are expected to be donated to a charity of the groups choosing. For…

LDR302

For LDR302 we were asked to pick a leadership position to get field experience within leadership. I chose to grow in a position as a CVFC that I already had to then be the intern of the association of MASC/MAHS. As apart of the experience we were asked to write three SMART goals that we…

Leadership Launch 2018

After spending about a week completely processing everything rushing through my brain I’ve decided the best way to completely compile my thoughts on Special Olympic’s Leadership Launch this year would be to compile a little blog post. Throwing it back to my junior year in high school, I was introduced to a program formerly known…

Welcome home, Gabby!

Updated: It is crazy to reflect on the  process from first getting a mentor, to then the excitement of getting a mentee, to then a year of serving as a mentor to another LAS student. Gabby and I had such common high school experience, and she was entering college on such a similar path as…

A Year in Review

One year already complete. A lot has happened in this short amount of time on campus. I’ve grown as a leader, friend, individual, and professional. I’ve taken time to find what I really care about, surround myself with people who are important to me,  and join different organizations that inspire me. This year… I changed…

Polar Plunge

This year, as a Leader Advancement Scholar, I was able to be a part of the Special Olympics Polar Plunge LEAD Team. This meant I was able to work with outer LAS students to fundraise money to send athletes to the Special Olympics Summer Games. We raised money by creating pages for our friends and…

My Pal, Kristen

I have ADORED Kristen in my LAS cohort from the second I met her. She is such an independent, strong-willed, and kind soul. I have watched her grow so much this year through so much adversity and I am incredibly proud to call her a friend. Unfortunately we haven’t gotten a chance to really sit…

How Far I’ve Come–Freshman Year

This week in our LDR200 class we were asked to reflect on how far we have come now that our first year of college is coming to a close. When spitting my thoughts onto paper I couldn’t help but think I really haven’t achieved that much as a leader this year. It was a really…