"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened" -Dr. Seuss Did I want the best few months of my favorite year at CMU to end as abruptly as it did? No. Are we rolling with the punches 2020 is throwing at us? Yes! Looking back on this year, I am thankful for all the twists [...]
Everyone with the LAS scholarship is required to participate on a "LEAD" team. At the beginning of the semester, we all took a survey to get placed onto different LEAD teams. I was placed on the "Grad Ball" LEAD team. What we did as a team was plan an event for the graduating seniors in [...]
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 [...]
LAS in the D was one of the most life changing experiences for me. On February 10th, 2017 my LAS cohort took a weekend trip down to Detroit. A few days before the trip left, our class met and we were told exactly what this trip has in store for us. We had a jam [...]
Living in northern Michigan, I have been blind to a lot of the issues Detroit has gone through. I've always known that it took a turn for the worst, but I didn't know when and I didn't know why. Detroit isn't something connected to me personally, so I never went out of my way to learn the history [...]
All CMU students are required to take a speaking class. For LAS, our debate class (COM267L) is our speaking class. Our cohort was split into two different classes, and split up into smaller debate groups. Over the course of the semester, we learned about argumentation and what it should really be like, the processes of [...]
As an LAS scholar, I have 3 required classes to take my freshman year of school. Introduction to Leadership Education (LDR 100), Introduction to Psychology (PSY 100L), and Introduction to Debate (COM 267L). Psychology is the study of the human mind, and why it is the way that it is. Personally, I really enjoyed psychology. [...]
"The Fred Factor" is a book written by Mark Sanborn. In my leadership class, this was the book I was assigned along with the rest of my group to read and present to the class. My group got together, and discussed what we liked about the book, what we thought its purpose was, and what [...]
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 [...]
"I'm so proud of kids like you. Your generation needs more kids willing to serve like you guys are. You really are such a light in this world. You have the power to change things." -Dave Bush I've done a lot of community service in my life, and none of it was like the trip [...]
Makenna Hogerheide 