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This past weekend, I spent my Friday, Saturday, and most of Sunday out in the Blue Hills reservation just south of Boston, MA training the cadets of Boston Cadet Squadron.  These young adults are members of Civil Air Patrol, the volunteer organization that I have been a part of for eight years now.  Our goal for [...]

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It’s a lonely place here in the School of Management Starbucks… I’m all alone while waiting for students in my IS323 class to come and pick my brain about their projects.  Let’s be honest, they’re not coming.  The only team that stopped by today did so when I wasn’t even officially having my hour.
Yet here [...]

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Since when have we lived in a state where people are so afraid of litigation that we purposefully change our lives (that are well within the rules) just to appease those that stand to sue us?
Today, I experienced for the first time the empty feeling of caving into someone else.  We had traditions, all of [...]

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Maybe it’s that time.
How do you know when it is time to let go?  I find this to be one of the hardest things to do in my life.  Whether it be parting ways with that extra snack that you were about to eat, or saying goodbye to a close friend.  Sometimes the [...]

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Second post for the day - I’m asking for your help.
As part of my time abroad, I am required to do a fair bit of research. I am currently working on a research project looking into a concept known as “student experience” and I need your help. All I’m [...]

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15 Days To Go

by James Connors on June 6, 2008

in Dublin, News

I promise that I will write more… I promise, promise, promise.

As the headline says, our program has 15 days remaining before we leave the Emerald Isle for the harsh realities of the United States. I don’t mean that to be a negative statement but rather a sobering fact. We’ve been in a world [...]

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