This week, NBC News has been hosting the fourth annual Education Nation summit, exploring the central theme "What It Takes". Or "What It Takes” for us as a nation to ensure students are successfully prepared for college, career and beyond," according to Education Nation's official website. Naturally, since education is an important topic in the …
AmeriCorps Goes Gleaning
On Friday, as part of our bi-weekly NDA meetings, the Apopka AmeriCorps crew went gleaning. Gleaning from the verb ‘glean’ means: 1. to gather or collect (something) in a gradual way, 2. to search (something) carefully, 3. to gather grain or other material that is left after the main crop has been gathered. We were …
Liar.
When I was first learning to drive I was so conscious of everything I did. I was aware of everything around me – how close I was to the car in front of me, how fast the car speeding in the opposite direction was going, the gap between my car and the lane lines and …
NDA Apopka Team <3
(Most) of the Notre Dame AmeriCorps Apopka 2013-2014 Team! We have a great group of AmeriCorps, hosted at the Hope CommUnity Center and serving at various sites including Orange County Public Schools, The Farm Workers Association and Habor House, a domestic violence shelter.
Why AmeriCorps?
In January of this year, while hustling through my last semester of my senior year of college – I started applying for jobs. I spent the last four years listening to my professors, my classmates, my parents and anyone else with a mouth tell me about how bleak the job prospects were post-graduation – especially …
Why I Left Miami
I love journalism. I love reporting and attending events and being engaged in the activities and happenings in my community. I love telling people’s stories and taking pictures and tweeting and writing every day. I enjoyed learning about a new place and its vibrant history in Miami. I loved sitting in tedious government meetings – …
13 Things I’ve Learned So Far in 2013
Published on Thought Catalog here on 9/13/13. 1. The most important people in your life may not text you daily or like every photo you put on Facebook, but in the worst moments they will be there the quickest and stay the longest. 2. I would not wish a visit to hospice on my worst …
My Bucket List
"If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves." - Thomas EdisonA few months ago I was inspired by one of my friends to create a bucket list. For his senior honors thesis, he has been trying to develop a whole movement about living spontaneously. I had thought about creating a list before …
Intimate moments: tweets about death
Scott Simon, host of NPR’s “Weekend Edition Saturday,” recently live-tweeted the death of his mother in ICU. I stumbled upon his tweets via a Poynter story and read through them all while at work. Simon, obviously a skilled journalist and Twitter-user, tweets not as a journalist, but as a son. A son, who despite his …
The compass points.
I learned the streets of Orlando through the window of the backseat of a car, through the eyes of a child. I learned the streets of Orlando with the context of landmarks and familiarity and daily habits – there is the poodle-shaped tree that means we are almost home, there is the little yellow house …
Meghan Mangrum 