By Taylor Burnham Mental health and wellbeing are essential for college students; living in a healthyheadspace allows us to work effectively and properly balance our multiple responsibilities. Onecommon outlet used to monitor and assess one’s mental health is wellness journaling. Journalingutilizes writing and creativity to document our thoughts and emotions, enabling us to becomemore self-aware …
What does it mean to be healthy? Balanced Diet Education is a BLI ALA 175 Leadership Lab Team — Their goal is to improve education surrounding perceptions of health in the Michigan community by providing accurate and easily accessible information to students. This newsletter outlines ways to stay healthy in Ann Arbor and while on …
What does it mean to be healthy? Balanced Diet Education is a BLI ALA 175 Leadership Lab Team — Their goal is to improve education surrounding perceptions of health in the Michigan community by providing accurate and easily accessible information to students. This newsletter outlines ways to stay healthy in Ann Arbor and while on …
After the 2-day live Search Inside Yourself program, I would define mindful leadership as the ability to 1) sense and understand the feelings of oneself as well as others; 2) act and speak with compassion of the motivations and goals of others and 3) lead a meaningful life. The road map used to guide the …
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After participating in the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute’s conference and completing the 28-day mindfulness challenge, I’ve found that a key part of mindful leadership is the ability to calmly and appropriately experience and respond to emotions. This kind of emotional intelligence is built largely through experience, which is mostly a function of time, but …
The Start-Up Environment Interning at a start-up has been a completely new experience for me. The work culture is very much how one would expect a start-up to be – quiet, small and scenic. In fact, my first day was also the first day of the first employees they hired, and it was the first …
By Romina Potter This past May, I taught English in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for four weeks through a non-profit called UBELONG. This was my second time volunteering through UBELONG because I sincerely ascribe to its service philosophy, with its deep commitment to long term initiatives, for a lasting impact that is achieved through a sustained …
By Brian Lee I was interning for the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). They are a not for a profit think tank that tries to measure peace in the world by developing a global peace index. In the organization, I was doing some in-house consulting for a philanthropist that wanted to measure the cost-effectiveness …
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By By Kate Marciniak This summer I was an employer engagement intern at a financial technology startup company called Squirrel in London, England for two months. The team consisted of about 10 people which was very unique in that I had direct contact with every ‘department’ of the company within one room. I was given …
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By Aries Rutledge Greetings! My name is Aries Rutledge and I am a sophomore in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. This spring, I studied abroad in Uganda with the Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates (GIEU) Program. As I began this experience, I knew very little about Uganda, the language, customs, and what …
