Wednesday, March 25, 2009

You meet interesting people in college...

Posted by Richard at 12:14 PM

The lectureship series was a success! We didn't have as many student participants as we had hoped, but the connections made were outstanding. Jessy Tolkan is an amazing speaker and I saw on her twitter that she was named 45th in Rolling Stones top 100 People that are Changing America. That's crazy awesome! I had the pleasure of meeting Larry Adair who was the Speaker of the House in Oklahoma for 22 years. You never know who you'll meet while in college and connections you make.

I was writing in a blog by Andy Revkin a couple weeks ago for my Environmental Problems class. My comment was not only selected as an Editors Choice, but he mentioned me by name in his next blog. Today at the Lectureship series a representative from the Sierra Club made a comment about it. I thought it was weird that others had actually read it. EDIT: It was a blog in the New York Times.

In April when the University's Campus Environment and Sustainability committee makes its proposal to the Presidential Cabinet, I hope that NSU will be able to become more eco-friendly. Overall the day was good!

stay cool!
-rblake

 

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1 Comment:

  1. Ron said...
    April 2, 2009 10:45 PM  
    Some words of wisdom... you will make huge connection during your time at uni. Dont drop the ball like I did, by failing to keep in contact over the years.

    I had this huge network right in front of me, I just didnt see it at all, nor the power of it, even when I was going after that first job. Egads, I knew 10X more F500 execs as a uni senior than I know now... nearly everyone has long since retired LOL

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