The Place We Call Home: Earth Day 2017
Earth day is an annual event that takes place on April 22, which aims to raise awareness on the need for environmental action. This environmental movement began in 1970, bringing over 20 million Americans together in attempt to...
Brushing Up Your Resume
Are you thinking of applying for a job this summer? Are you submitting your resume for an internship or a co-op job? If you’re nervous about getting your resume in shape for these processes, fear not, and read on for...
Identity After Sport – An Athletically Inspired Educational Journey
For many student-athletes in the NCAA our sport identifies who we are. Growing up as a child and continuing on through higher education, sport (track and field specifically) was all I knew. My sport was what people associated me...
Hidden Figures: Mary Jackson
Mary Winston Jackson was born on April 9, 1921. She grew up in Hampton, Virginia. She attended all-black schools in Hampton. Eventually, she obtained a dual bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Physical Sciences from Hampton Institute...
8 Keys to Success
Success - We all want to achieve it. We all have unique hopes, dreams, and goals that we want to accomplish throughout our lives. Whether we want to succeed in school, work, our social life or our health and well-being....
Transitioning From The NCAA – An Athletically Inspired Educational Journey
For many student-athletes in the NCAA, the time leading up to graduation is a very chaotic period; usually presenting us with more questions about our future than answers. How is the next stage in your athletic career going to...
Hidden Figures: Katherine Johnson
Katherine Goble Johnson was born on August 26th, 1918. She grew up in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. From a young age, Johnson had a love for numbers and she counted everything she could. She had such an...
Hidden Figures: Dorothy Vaughan
Dorothy Vaughan was born on September 20th, 1910. Her hometown was Kansas City, Missouri. In 1929, at 19 years old, she obtained her B.A. in Mathematics from Wilberforce University.
Vaughan taught math at Robert Russa...
Maximizing Study Groups
Gather around! 'Tis time to take hold of your pens and highlighters -- to grasp your calculators! -- to clutch your erasers! Exams are right around the corner and I am your official exam crier!
Although...
Team Cohesiveness – An Athletically Inspired Educational Journey
If you look at some of the most successful teams in sport history, whether it is the Chicago Blackhawks of the NHL, the New York Yankees of the MLB, or Manchester United of the
Create Your Masterpiece
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
Children have an innate curiosity and desire to learn. They dream big and let their imagination run wild. However, as...
6 Tips for Picking Your Residence
It’s the time of the year where graduating high school students are making their final decisions about their post-secondary future. For those attending college or university, an element of this is picking out the right residence...
Pulling off an All-Nighter
Countless people have instructed you not to do it. Parents and educators across different timezones are pulling faces, arms crossed, and eyebrows raised, judging your ability to "adult" right now.
But life isn't predictable.
...Feeding the Soul in Senior Year – An Athletically Inspired Educational Journey
Going into my senior year on a full athletic scholarship at the University of Tulsa, it was a time of mixed emotions. After four years of being away from my family in Canada, part of me was looking...
Living with Roommates
In Fall 2015, I moved into residence. Frankly, I was more excited about living apart from my parents than I was about living on my own, which didn’t settle in until they left the evening of move-in day....