The Power of A Handwritten Note

The Power of A Handwritten Note

by Susan Mathieson @Sus_Math Growing up, my parents taught me the importance of a thank you card. After every birthday or holiday, they w...

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What Are You Best At?

What Are You Best At?

by Eric Mason @EMay26 This question often runs through my head during the roller coaster ride that has been my grad school career. Th...

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A Series of Small Things

A Series of Small Things

By Christine Pitts @cpitts_ Vincent Van Gogh once said that, “great things are done by a series of small things brought together”...

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Best Summer

Best Summer

by Grant Batchelder @batchaelder The summer between my first and second year of graduate school, I did an ACUHO-I internship with UC Santa ...

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Too Much Self-Care?

Too Much Self-Care?

By Megan Reilly @MReilly90 We talk about self-care in student affairs a lot. We tell our students to practice self-care and we tell ea...

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Olivia's Best Week Ever

Olivia's Best Week Ever

by Olivia Barker @oliviabark Like a lot of people, I fell into student affairs...I had no clue I could do this everyday! I started my...

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Celebrating 3 Years!

Celebrating 3 Years!

This past Friday, January 23, 2015 we celebrated three years! In three years time we celebrate more than 50 writers and more than 97...

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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

By Susan Mathieson @Sus_Math One perk of working in Student Affairs is the time you get off around the holidays. For me this meant getting t...

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What Can We Do?

by Grant Batchelder @batchaelder This weekend around the country, many people are celebrating the life and contributions of Dr. Martin Luth...

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Making The Most of a Professional Conference as a New SA Pro

Making The Most of a Professional Conference as a New SA Pro

by Susan Mathieson @Sus_math While spending a week in Nashville, TN for the Association of Fraternity and Sorority Advisors Annual Meeting, ...

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The Count Down to Graduation #SAGrad

by Eric Mason @EMay264 I am currently waiting on two crock-pots full of meals for the next week. I started a saving account (by that ...

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On Family

By Luis H. Garay @Luis HGaray My friends are my family. My family is my family. They are both families in different ways. One keeps me i...

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Twenty-Six

Twenty-Six

By Christine Pitts @cpitts_ When I was a kid I hated that my birthday was in January, because chances were that I was going to be in schoo...

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Sick Days Don’t Mean the Same Thing in the Real World

by Grant Batchelder @batchaelder This last week I was sick and out of work. It made me miss the days when if you were sick you didn’t go ...

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Hole in the World

Hole in the World

by Olivia Barker @oliviaBark I've been binge watching Girls to prep for season 4 and Hannah says something that really strikes ...

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My Job Search Journal

by Tamera Dunn @tam2theEra While re-arranging my living room, I stumbled across my job-search journal. It's nothing glamorous as it is a...

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On My #OneWord2015

By Luis H.  Garay @ LuisHGaray I first heard about the # OneWord365   new year’s  resolution at the beginning of 2014. Those in the # sachat...

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Home Away from Home

by Eric Mason @EMay264 Coming back to my hometown is always bittersweet. I love seeing old friends and family, but I am constantly re...

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A Difference in CoWorkers

by   Grant Batchelder @batchaelder It's amazing how much difference can be made from year to year simply by having a staffing chang...

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Tis the Season

By Christine Pitts @cpitts_ The holidays can be an exciting time filled with love, joy and happiness. At least that is the predominate...

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And Everything Else

By Megan Reilly @MReilly90 As I’ve been traveling and seeing old friends and family over the holiday season, spanning Thanksgiving to New Ye...

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New Year

New Year

by Olivia Barker @oliviabark So it's a new year and everyone's updates on social media have been resolutions after resolution...

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