I had the privilege of serving as a Core Guide for the 2019 Leadership Safari Conference. As a core guide I worked on developing, advising, selecting and training the Fall Leadership Safari Staff. Core Team members perform a variety of logistical, organizational, outreach and marketing tasks. At the end of this summer, all of the [...]
The Leadership Safari Program is an incredible program run through the Leadership Institute at CMU. Over 2,000 incoming students are acclimated to campus and college life through this week-long adventure. I participated myself as a Freshman in 2016, and applied to work the conference the following fall as a part of the 2017 C-Team staff. Through [...]
I can't believe that a year has already gone by with you as my wonderful mentee! It seems like only last week I was revealing myself to you through a care package with some of your favorite things, and a sign that said "say yes to adventure". That was way back when we were complete [...]
Spark Leadership is a one day conference about discovering your leadership style, and tapping into pinpointing your leadership identity. At the beginning of Spark, I was split up into a small group along with everyone else. We started off with a few icebreaker activities toget warmed up to the other members of our groups. The [...]
Connections Leadership Conference is full of insightful speakers, and dynamic workshops that guide you in a positive leadership direction. During the conference we were given the opportunity to make connections with other leaders at CMU. However, it wasn't all work and no play, we had most of Friday evening to ourselves. The conference was held [...]
August 20, 2016 was my first day as a Chippewa. I don't think I could have had a wider range of emotions about how my life was going to change. Happiness - to be a part of such an amazing college. Fear - of not knowing what to expect. Withdrawal - not being side by [...]
This weekend, was one of the most memorable weekend of my Freshman year of college. Finally getting all of the LAS cohorts together was such an amazing thing. Being new to college, and not really knowing anyone let alone LAS scholars, this was a great way to meet and get to know everyone in the [...]
Makenna Hogerheide 