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It is first block and we just finished watching a TED talk by former president of Ireland, Ms. Mary Robinson. We watched this as part of a mini-project on CO2 (carbon dioxide), the conclusion of a chapter about naming compounds. Ms. Robinson addresses many aspects of the consequences of increased CO2 emissions. She highlights how…

Everything happens for a reason. I’m a firm believer in that. I don’t believe that things in life happen because of dumb luck or by chance. I believe that things like success come out of hard work, blood sweat and tears, and help from God. I believe that we’re all put here on this world…

Why is the year the Beatles released their hit single, “Love Me Do” significant? Which picture book do you remember loving first as a child? How do the patterns of designer William Morris make you feel? Do the poems of Rumi and Rupi Kaur have anything in common? Music. Art. Philosophy. Literature. History. Like some…

 

100 days is a long time. Imagine eating the same dinner for 100 days. Or watching only one tv show, or wearing the exact same thing for 100 days! It seems unreasonable at best. But other times, doing the same thing for 100 days can be so fun, it can make time practically fly by!…

 

[caption id="attachment_4478018" align="alignnone" width="1493"] Kathryn Post ('14)[/caption] Thankfulness has been tough for me these past few weeks. In the aftermath of the election I have witnessed expressions of extreme intolerance and hate from members of both political parties. I have wept alongside people who feel threatened not necessarily by President-Elect Trump, but by dangerous ideologies…

Yup--believe it or not, this is a test!  Not quite the type of test that most of us think of when we talk about testing. Mention the word "test," and our brains scream out in fear, cutting off our ability to think creatively. Testing brings up images of scantron sheets with fill in the circle…