Research and Applied Project Prospectus

It's surprising to me that I've actually settled on an idea as most of my life is incredibly undecided. I have lots of ideas and lots of interests, it was difficult to narrow down the single concept I wanted to explore rather than looking at things more multifaceted. I discovered during this decision making process …

Research Project Brainstorms

  I am working on the topic of -how socio economic class can influence students behavior abroad- because I want to find out -if people who grow up in entirely different environments deal with other cultures differently  - in order to help my reader understand better projections for students social behavior abroad. I find this …

Intellectual Journey through IDS.

  I am from a small town in Massachusetts called Fairhaven, very blue collar area where people grow up, get a job and then find themselves at 50 in the same house they grew up in. Although for many, this is a great and totally life enriching path of which to follow, I just am …

Personal Learning Network Plan

Although I have never ventured down this route of education, I find it extremely enticing because I hold the controls for what I see, learn and share. This is my first go at a PLN plan, of course subject to errors I'm assuming. However I'm excited to get more interdisciplinary and more connected to those …

Program Update

Of all the roads I could have gone down in the ‘quest for myself’ throughout my college years, I never had imagined I would’ve evolved into the person and contract attached to my person that I am today. On curating my very first contract I really had negative ideas about what I really wanted to …

Anthony Bourdain’s death, Migrant Children, and Zara Jackets. Amongst other painful things…

An excerpt from a passage I wrote on June 8th, the day Anthony Bourdain took his own life in Kaysersberg, France. Anthony Bourdain died today. This morning actually so I guess it was yesterday, according to French time zone differences. Why is it that the ones we so envy, often are the unhappiest? The ones so …

No Recipe, No Problem.

You don’t need a recipe to build something beautiful. In both the kitchen and in life, many of us require recipes to get something accomplished. A cookbook, a guidebook, an instruction manual, you name it; and there are probably rules advising on how to do that thing best. Although, we actually can do all things …

Sands From the Sahara- Gran Canaria

Scroll to the absolute bottom of pictures, to read my piece about my first day in the Canary Islands or Las Canarias (all photos via me). Off of the West Coast of Africa, the island chain is an archipelago that is under the Spanish crown, the topography is intense, with a landscape filled with unexpected surprises. …

Breaking Bikini Body Blasphemy

With summer quickly approaching, and as the layers of clothing shed off our bodies this June, I challenge you to like what you see rather than mentally cringing next to Malibu Barbie on the beach this year. See, it doesn't really matter what you look like at all, if I'm concerned. No one is going …

The Most Irrelevant & Unexpected United States Representative

With regard to my time so far in Europe, I lived in Spain this past fall, and currently I am living in Scotland. Two widely different places and experiences for me, and equally different for how I felt I needed to represent the great and grand U.S. of A... In Spain I attended a very …