In less than a month, I’ll be getting on a plane to fly off to Karlsruhe, Germany, where I will study at the Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie until next July. So yeah, I’m sorta freaking out a bit. Of course, I feel a surge of excitement and anticipation as each day ticks away. A year ago, […]
Immigration
Over Winter break, I went with CMU Alternative Breaks Program to Atlanta, Georgia. While there, I volunteered with a group called New American Pathways. This is an organization that directly serves newly settled refugees in the greater Atlanta area. Over the three days that we spent with them, we got to learn about the global […]
RA Year 3
I can say with a high degree of certainty that in the future, I will never be able to dissociate my memories of college from my memories of being an RA in Kulhavi Hall. I have lived and served as the third floor’s RA for the past six semesters. In RA measurements, that’s roughly ninety […]
The Leaders of Tomorrow
In the Winter of 2013, I had submitted my application for the Leadership Advancement Scholarship at CMU. Two weeks later I was one of 80 other students invited to compete for a spot in the 2013 cohort. I came to campus on a gray winter day, took a tour of campus for the first time, […]
#SAEHatesMe
This past year has been a big one for me and SAE. After being initiated into Michigan Delta Omega’s chapter of ΣΑΕ last fall, I have been elected to the role of Member Educator. Within this role, I am responsible for understanding curriculum set by our National Educators and organizing different workshops and meetings that ensure […]
Agua Es Vida
It’s hot: 107 degrees Fahrenheit. Yesterday I was walking to class in a winter coat, mind you. I’ve been swinging this pick-axe into the ground for the past 3 hours. It had been about an hour since it was pointed out to me that I was standing over a scorpion, but I was still on the […]
Spark Expanded
For the past three semesters, I have been blessed to coordinate the Spark Leadership Series at CMU. Over the summer, Natalie, another one of the coordinators, and I collaborated with the LI Staff to revisit the the Alpha Leadership program’s curriculum and projected learning outcomes in hopes to create a more challenging and intensive but still baseline […]
Art of a Revolution: Blood on the Streets
Ok. So many thoughts and too many feelings. This week, many of CMU’s offices and organizations collaborated to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Memory in a week long series of events and performances. Because of the what’s been seen in the news for the past two-three years, I felt compelled to be a part of […]
Treat Yo Self
So the fall semester is finally under way. I have returned back to the Resident Assistant position in Kulhavi Hall, serving Transfer students from all over the country as they begin their career’s here at CMU. Furthermore, I am still an engineering student, still a program coordinator, still in a fraternity, and still a TechOps […]
Charleston: The Media’s Race to Bury the Topic of Race.
Don’t roll your just eyes yet. I know, i’m just another kid voicing his opinion on the internet about the events that happened in Charleston, South Carolina. I get it. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, please crawl out from that rock you’ve been living underneath. Or do a google search. I’d provide a link, […]
breaking boundaries 