Taking Professional Development Into My Own Hands

This past week, Student Affairs – the First Years launched an amazing campaign across Twitter (@safirstyears) and later on Facebook to no...

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How to Fail in the Job Search: AKA My Attempts at Remaining Unemployed

In part two of my continued saga on how to not be like me , I have decided to discuss the glorious mistakes that happened to me througho...

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Student See, Student Do

I was a student from the tender age of four to the ripe old age of twenty-two. Even though I worked on and off during those years, being a...

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Service to Students is Valuable

This past Saturday, I set out on a mission. I needed new running shoes in order to really start training for this half marathon coming up....

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Advising and Adjusting in the Game

As Superbowl XLVI nears, I find myself comparing my transition and the role I play in student activities to the work of a coach. As the co...

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You've Got To Know Before You Start

When I was accepted to graduate school, I started my assistantship a month early with New Student Orientation. I was very eager to start w...

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Begin with Confidence In Mind

Most people know my extremely outgoing side – always being social, participating in random activities with no shame (karaoke, costumed eve...

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14 States in One Year? It’s Doable With Student Affairs!

My recent journey in Student Affairs brought me halfway across the country, then back, with a few detours here and there. Long story sho...

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My First Professional Presentation Proposal: Mistakes, Mistakes, and More Mistakes!

Like many of you, at some point in our Student Affairs tenure we have participated in a professional development conference.  When the s...

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The New Girl

Home is where you make it. For me, I’ve made it at Middle Tennessee State University located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Becoming a part o...

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My First Six Months…

If someone would have told me that this is what I would be doing back when I was in college, I would have given them a very confused look....

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Talk About It - the First Years

We’re hoping to start a new movement talking about our own experiences as student affairs graduate students and professionals! Student Affai...

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