The time has come for my final post chronicling my transition from graduate school to full-time student affairs work. That doesn’t mean the transition is over, though. The sa[...]

In mid-May, I went out for breakfast sandwiches on a Tuesday morning with my counterpart, Damian, to celebrate our one-year anniversary. Exactly one year prior to that day, we ente[...]

I went to the doctor last week. I am a new patient with this doctor, and I always hate going to a new doctor for the very first time because I feel very awkward and intimidated, an[...]

Recently I made the decision to run for two different leadership positions in a couple of organizations. The first, for the Academic Advising Association, established for the entir[...]

A couple of weekends ago, I made the drive back to Macomb, Illinois, home of Western Illinois University where I recently graduated with my master’s degree from the College Student[...]

Last year sometime, in the throes of my graduate program, I was visiting my family back in Denver. While at dinner, my brother, a person that can sometimes forsake entirely the con[...]

A happy new year to all of you! We’re in the first week of yet another January and I swear the whole thing smells like a new car, radiates with the blinding whiteness of snea[...]

As of mid-November I’ve been graduated from my masters program and working in my current position as an academic adviser at University of Nebraska – Lincoln for 6 months. Tha[...]

It’s spring registration season. This means the staff is in all-hands-on-deck mode as students come by the dozens to our office to discuss the classes they should be taking in the [...]

Several years ago, Jim Carrey starred in a movie called Yes Man! in which he plays a middle-aged man living a passionless, routine life, until he’s convinced to start saying “yes” [...]