As a general recap of my college career:Begin URI as a journalism major.Become afraid of the rigidity of the curriculum and gen eds being too specific, switch to English major.<...Continue Reading
Imported on 10/17/2008 by Megan Gillard in Megan Gillard's Blog | 0 commentsOh how long it has been. All the events of the past few months (graduation being the first of a long series of them) created a Meg that had no functioning brain. Sure, it reminded my lungs to accept o...Continue Reading
Imported on 09/28/2008 by Megan Gillard in Megan Gillard's Blog | 0 commentsLast time I wrote, I was concerned about how selective my critical thinking was.Now I can't turn it off.I am questioning everything. Over and over and through and through, I am...Continue Reading
Imported on 09/28/2008 by Megan Gillard in Megan Gillard's Blog | 0 commentsO Future, why must you be so annoyingly upon me?With so much time to think about it (i.e. having related real-life experiences and internships as well as more opportunity for meaningful co...Continue Reading
Imported on 09/28/2008 by Megan Gillard in Megan Gillard's Blog | 0 commentsSo maybe I'm not going to work for IC after all. (Do not be deceived. I will probably work with IC for as long as IC exists.) The Peace Corps has always been an option in the...Continue Reading
Imported on 09/28/2008 by Megan Gillard in Megan Gillard's Blog | 0 commentsLaren said that at the conference, and it is probably the truest thing I've ever heard. I can't get away from it lately, because we've been away from school so there's been a lot less IC/S4S stuff to ...Continue Reading
Imported on 09/28/2008 by Megan Gillard in Megan Gillard's Blog | 0 commentsEven though it is at least a half a year away, I know that the more I'm aware of wanting to learn before I volunteer abroad, the better chance I have of learning it. I needed to set something at least...Continue Reading
Imported on 09/28/2008 by Megan Gillard in Megan Gillard's Blog | 0 commentsI believe in activism over apathy. Apathy is probably the phenomenon that upsets me the most in our world. In a society where there are so many cultures, so many problems, so many differences, so many...Continue Reading
Imported on 09/28/2008 by Megan Gillard in Megan Gillard's Blog | 0 commentsI wrote this in an email to a friend, and then when I sat down to write in this I realized that I'd said everything that I'd felt and been able to transcribe... so I'm copy and pasting it here.<...Continue Reading
Imported on 09/28/2008 by Megan Gillard in Megan Gillard's Blog | 0 commentshttp://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2005/08/unchr.htmlHow is it that the UN pretty much blatantly ignores the issue of human rights?Well, at least the article d...Continue Reading
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