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Hey guys. Wanted to share an interesting article I found through a friend's blog. I heard a lecture at the end of the year all about the integration of a hydrogen economy. It was really cool to hear about the advances in using green hydrogen as a source of energy, but what was even more interesting was to hear and think about the possible implications for our world if we shift from a petroleum based economy. What do you Think? Is the energy crisis for real? What is our response as the largest users of this type of energy in the world? How involved should we be in securing free energy for developing countries? Check out this article....
www.opencongress.org/articles/view/214-Energy-Before-Immigration
Friday, June 22, 2007
The Catch-Up
So for those of you who don't know, I was working this summer in our Masters of Higher Education Department--which was great! The summer weeks were crazy so let me catch up a little.
It started with going to ACSD, a huge student development conference which was being held in Minneapolis this year. I was recruiting, attending, and presenting at the conference. The conference was really good, and I had a blast in all three areas of responsibility. I had a ton of fun telling people about our Higher Education program and well very pleased with how my presentation went. I was presenting a workshop on the research I did for my Master's thesis. I got very positive feedback and even a bite in the publishing arena. I'll let you all know if things progress with this.
After ACSD, I flew straight to the" Big Apple", where I got to stay at my uncle Christian's, see two really good friends from high school that are now living and working there, and then met up with about 15 friends from College. We all went to a Pirates Yankee's game. The Pirates sucked big time, but it was great to hang out in Yankee Stadium before its torn down. It was awesome to look on the field and know that Babe Ruth played there.
A quick flight back to Pittsburgh, brought me home to get right back to work. For two weeks we were been busy with summer institutes. My friend Andy and I were organizing a lot of the social events for the students after class. We ended with huge banquet held this place called Shakespeare's, which is this huge recreated castle. We decided to do a murder mystery with everyone and the theme was a masquerade. Yours truly played the murderer! It was so much fun! But all good things come to an end.
After institutes I got the sweet chance to work with Dr. Guthrie some some cool research and publishing projects. With the end of July came the beginning of RD training, RA training, Freshman Orientation and the first weeks of the Semester... funny how two months can be so concisely summed up!? When in reality all those things were life-consuming for me.
I'm glad to share now that the semester is off to an fantastic start... problems and all. My staff of student leaders are great, I love them dearly, and Memorial Hall is rockin' it out! My staff has lots of stuff planned already for this semester so I'm sure you'll be seeing great footage about that. I also have a new digital camera, so if I can figure the tech side of it out I hope to post some video blogs too!
Thanks for reading... and Thanks for all the encouragement you guys give me to keep blogging... its cool to hear from you all. Just make sure to live your life in the real word over the virtual... Cause the real us is way better!
It started with going to ACSD, a huge student development conference which was being held in Minneapolis this year. I was recruiting, attending, and presenting at the conference. The conference was really good, and I had a blast in all three areas of responsibility. I had a ton of fun telling people about our Higher Education program and well very pleased with how my presentation went. I was presenting a workshop on the research I did for my Master's thesis. I got very positive feedback and even a bite in the publishing arena. I'll let you all know if things progress with this.
After ACSD, I flew straight to the" Big Apple", where I got to stay at my uncle Christian's, see two really good friends from high school that are now living and working there, and then met up with about 15 friends from College. We all went to a Pirates Yankee's game. The Pirates sucked big time, but it was great to hang out in Yankee Stadium before its torn down. It was awesome to look on the field and know that Babe Ruth played there.
A quick flight back to Pittsburgh, brought me home to get right back to work. For two weeks we were been busy with summer institutes. My friend Andy and I were organizing a lot of the social events for the students after class. We ended with huge banquet held this place called Shakespeare's, which is this huge recreated castle. We decided to do a murder mystery with everyone and the theme was a masquerade. Yours truly played the murderer! It was so much fun! But all good things come to an end.
After institutes I got the sweet chance to work with Dr. Guthrie some some cool research and publishing projects. With the end of July came the beginning of RD training, RA training, Freshman Orientation and the first weeks of the Semester... funny how two months can be so concisely summed up!? When in reality all those things were life-consuming for me.
I'm glad to share now that the semester is off to an fantastic start... problems and all. My staff of student leaders are great, I love them dearly, and Memorial Hall is rockin' it out! My staff has lots of stuff planned already for this semester so I'm sure you'll be seeing great footage about that. I also have a new digital camera, so if I can figure the tech side of it out I hope to post some video blogs too!
Thanks for reading... and Thanks for all the encouragement you guys give me to keep blogging... its cool to hear from you all. Just make sure to live your life in the real word over the virtual... Cause the real us is way better!
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