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Category: college

3-in-1 post on D.O. and CEOs

Thrice in my lifetime have I met standing CEOs of relatively large (if not just plain large) companies. What follows are the stories I’ve taken with me from each of these experiences. I My junior year in college, I met Bob Nardelli — then CEO of Home Depot — after a lecture he’d given to [...]

poetry and what teachers make

One of my favorite things that I didn’t do enough of in college was to take a drive 6 miles Northwest from church to Revolution Cafe and Bar in Bryan for Mic Check. I was first introduced to Mic Check by my dear friend and poet Matt Graham (pictured above in all his photoshopped Accordion-bearing [...]

making “no” hard to say

Neil Sedaka once penned the profound realization that breaking up is hard to do. If you want to read about the ins and outs of breaking up and other things pertaining to relationships and their implicit complexities, may I refer you to Heather’s current series on the matter. Her writings on such things allow me [...]

to all the nay-sayers

Short Version: To those of you who think I look bad now, aren’t you glad I no longer look like this? Awesome Version: If someone were to write a book on Texas A&M University, the 21st century, Mullet Week 2002 would get at least 1,500 words. It was truly a week of epic proportions. An [...]

the glory days

Well since I lost that amazing video of Jonny dressed as a pirate, beating up a ninja and replacing it with a ninja bear in Elise’s classroom… this video from college will have to suffice. It is officially my first video ever on the online diary for the masses. We’ll see how it goes, there [...]