Last Saturday was the first (hopefully) annual Milano Cares Day, an event which dispatched teams, SWARMS, of us all over New York City in a volunteer effort to assist all sorts of nonprofit organizations with various needs. There were projects working with seniors, local community development groups, and doing everything from talking to kids about career [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Making a Difference’
a kind of blue…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Making a Difference, Milano, volunteerism on October 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
after a long winter’s nap…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Lab, Making a Difference, part-time student, policy on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Monday we return to classes at Milano, and we’ve all spent our breaks differently. I excitedly began my new job on the Monday after classes ended in December, so I haven’t had any time “off” during the day, but as fitting my part-time status have enjoyed having my evenings free and catching up on some [...]
group project overload
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged group projects, Making a Difference, student life on November 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When we started our group blog we intended to make our posting fairly equal, so I apologize to Laura and Tushar for jumping back in again. But our content has run a bit low, obviously, and not for lack of what we could write about–rather, it is about the time!
If you apply to Milano enthusiastically [...]
=SUM(OMG)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coping grad school, Making a Difference, Policy Analysis, urban policy analysis on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I alluded in my first post to the wonders of confronting Excel as a former English major. Believe it or not I wrestled with how much of that confrontation to discuss here, because There is No Crying In Baseball, and also because like Sarah Palin, I know what I know what I do not know [...]
Get out there!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Change, election, Gandhi, Making a Difference, volunteerism on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So I have this bracelet. It’s not one of those rubber yellow ones, or a white one, or one of the military ones that the candidates held up during the debates. It may sound a little silly, but I look at this bracelet every day. I guess to be more precise, I look at what [...]
Being the Change
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bombay, Change, Making a Difference, Margaret Mead, Snakes, Vote, Wildlife Rehabilitation, Wildlife Rescue on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world, indeed it’s the only thing that ever has…’
These are the words of American Cultural Anthropologist, Margaret Mead. On the eve of the US election I share with you a personal story that constantly fortifies my conviction that no matter how small or [...]
