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This Whole Self-Care Thing
For those of you who are still wondering what self-care is, it is the personal decisions we make for ourselves or maybe our families to remain physically well and mentally sane. Again, while this whole concept of self-care is often encouraged in my field I wonder why I still see many colleagues, classmates, and friends fatigued and tired...
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The Masks we wear
Being a professional/administrator on a branch campus of Texas A&M while also being a student studying administration at Texas A&M is sort of like being a chef at a restaurant who comes back to eat at the same restaurant on his day off, and when ordering, asks the waiter “I don’t know… what’s good here?” I’m just saying that it’s a little weird to pay to eat the swordfish you got paid to prepare. It’s an ouroboros of knowledge and money and time and learning.
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21 & Stuck in the Middle
I spent the past 20 years of my life growing up in Houston, Texas. Recently, my parents sold our house and left the city. I definitely struggled with having to say goodbye to my hometown, and the house that I had grown up in. Sometimes now, I don't really know how to say where I live. I'm caught in the middle of living in a college town but having my roots in a city where I no longer have a house. Selling our house made it clear that I have no choice but to move to the next stage of life, one where I am the adult instead of the child. I don't yet know how to navigate this next phase, or how I will be able to handle all of the upcoming changes, but this I know is true.
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Do you pronounce “data” like “data” or “data”?
In my high school history class, my teacher asked us what piece of modern technology had influenced and shaped the lives of everyone, as much as the advent of the automobile. This was prior to 2010, and we offered “TV!”, “the internet!”, “Computers!”. He wouldn’t accept any as the answer, because automobiles had such an extensive impact on our daily lives such as where and how we live, how our cities are built, where we work, where we travel, so on and so forth. At that time, it didn’t seem like anything else could have that kind of impact.