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Calling the HERD

February 16th, 2012 - No Comments

I went to Nichols College.

I currently work for Nichols College.

Our mascot is Thunder the Bison and we call ourselves the Herd.

This post is a call out to all our fellow Bison who have once grazed the land of Dudley, MA. The Center for Student Involvement (formerly known as the Student Activities and Orientation Office) is running the first alternative spring break that Nichols has hosted (to my knowledge).

Ten Bison (Two administrators, eight students) are traveling to New Orleans to help out the area that is STILL in shambles from the nightmare that was Hurricane Katrina.

The HERD can help them. Heck, anyone can help them!

There is a fantastic new site that makes donating to such causes easy, it is called AlumniChoose.org.

The link for the trip is here http://alumnichoose.org/nbab

The students have been collecting money since last semester and are still $2,500 short of their goal. If they reach the goal, the Center for Student Involvement will MATCH that and send us on our way.

You can help these 8 young Bison reach their goal for this brand new initiative on campus. If you can give a dollar, that’s one dollar towards our goal. If we can get 2,500 Bison to donate a $1 each, we’d meet our goal.

If you are an alumni remember, “You are forever a Bison.”

Make it happen. GO HERD or GO HOME!

If you are an individual who has participated in any sort of community service and witnessed/experienced the personal growth that occurs after such an experience, help this group of 8 students share that experience.

Thank you and rock on!

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New Year – New Resume

January 12th, 2012 - 8 Comments

What did you accomplish last semester?

Did you attend any conferences? How about present at them?

What classes did you teach?

Does your resume and LinkedIn say so?

Chances are your students, athletes, resident assistants, etc, etc are returning to campus and the calm of the office is about to become organized chaos and madness. Seize this moment, if your resume doesn’t reflect what you did last semester you are slacking! Seriously. Are you attending a conference this spring? Yes? Great! What if this happens…

“I’d love to see your resume because I may have an exciting opportunity for you.”

Oh…err…I don’t have one on me but I will get it to you as soon as I get back.
*Start thinking, shoot when am I going to be able to do that!*

“Oh that’s fine, do you have a LinkedIn?”

Oh…yes I do…but…yea sure go ahead and check me out there.
*Start thinking, shoot! I haven’t updated that in months!*

“Great, I’ll send you a request to connect.”

Sounds awesome, thanks!
*Queue the half smile. Face meet palm*


Chances are you want to avoid such a catastrophe from happening. There is also a high probability that you did something awesome last semester.

Something that you smile when you think of it or have a thank you note (or two) hung up on a bulletin board, an e-mail raving about it stashed in a folder and/or a poster from the event with a picture of you (and your team) at the event. Why isn’t that on your resume yet?

Don’t wait. Set aside some time and update it. Now!

While you’re at it, copy the text of your resume into www.Wordle.net. This will give you a snap shot of the words you use the most on your resume, it also makes for a fun thing to share. Give it a shot and post it to Twitter!

Here’s my resume wordle:

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Staying Young

January 4th, 2012 - 6 Comments

Part of the redesign of the blog is to write often….as often as I have an idea in response to whatever it is I’m reading. (Great advice per Matt Chevy’s Life Without Pants blog see #5.)

Today I read this from Cindy Kane (@CindyKane on Twitter) and loved that she feels as young as she did at 28. She just started her blog so subscribe to that and follow her.  Cindy’s mindset made me want to share one way that you can keep that mindset going, year after year, birthday after birthday.

Here is the secret when it comes to birthdays that Robyn and I came up with, celebrate the second digit of your birthday.

I started this when Robyn and I started dating. My first birthday with her was my 7th. We went to the science museum then went out for burgers and milkshakes. On my 8th birthday we went ice skating (because all cool 8 year olds have an ice skating party) and then went out for pizza.

On my most recent birthday, my 9th if you lost count, we stepped it up a bit. We went out to a diner that was on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives (favorite time wasting show) then went to a paint-your-own-pottery shop. There we spent over 3 hours trying to decide what figurine, dish, bowl, vase, sign, or coaster to paint THEN painting it. My lovely art work looked as though a 9 year old did it, it was hilarious, relaxing, and good to get back to the basics of good ol’ fashioned birthday fun.

Pictures of the final product will be shared soon. We had to leave our ceramics there to be baked in the oven.

Oh and next year, I’ll be 0. Let’s just say I’m pretty excited to see what that results in. Number one on my list for that day is eating cake with my hands and making a huge mess of it. See below for inspiration. :-)

 

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