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Inclusion 101
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network recently published a research paper outlining how colleges can best help autistic students. As an autistic student myself, I decided to see how well USG is doing. Let’s look at ASAN’s guidelines: Show that you … Continue reading
Posted in Campus Activities, Fitness & Wellness, Life at USG, Student Event, students
Tagged #CampusResources, Autism, AutismAcceptance, College, Support
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Monday Mourning
Today’s installment of Around the Grove features heavy subject matter. If you could be triggered by discussions of filicide, murder, abuse, neglect, or ableism, you might want to skip this one. However, if these topics are not traumatic triggers for … Continue reading
Posted in Campus Activities, Life at USG, Student Event, students
Tagged Advocacy, ASAN, DayOfMourning, Disability, Grief, ZetaSigma
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Staying Positively Positive
The first week of the semester is almost over! Lots of people find this time of year exciting, and rightly so! New classes, new chances to learn, new challenges–it’s undoubtedly going to be interesting if nothing else. That said, some … Continue reading
(Open) Mic Check!
Last Friday, USG held a virtual Open Mic Night for anyone who might have been interested. Even though it was Friday the 13th, we didn’t have any technical issues. The night went very well, and everyone who attended had a … Continue reading
Posted in Campus Activities, Life at USG, Student Event
Tagged #fun, #poetry, #StudentEvent, #StudentLife, #takeabreak, #USG, #wellness
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Comfort Zones vs. Self-Growth
“Comfort, the enemy of progress” -P.T. Barnum Breaking out of your comfort zone is hard. It’s scary and uncomfortable but the greatest growth comes from stepping outside our comfort zones. Think to yourself when you experienced the most personal growth, … Continue reading
Broadening Horizons — Part 1
America has a bigotry problem. Yes, I realize the phrase “bigotry problem” borders on redundancy, but that’s also a bit too simple. What does prejudice look like? How does it impact people? More importantly, what can we do about … Continue reading
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Tagged Campus Events, community engagement, Diversity, learning, opportunity, self-improvement
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Stressed Out?
Every now and then we get overwhelmed and stressed about the millions of things we have going on or need to get done. I definitely do. It can be the little things like homework or doing laundry (which add up!) … Continue reading
Posted in Campus Activities, Fitness & Wellness, Student Event, students
Tagged excercise, mental health, mindfulness, outdoors, podcasts, reduce stress, stress relief, stressors, Workshops
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USG International Night 2020 Vlog
Hey Everyone, On Thursday, February 20, 2020, USG International students, staff, and others from the community came together to celebrate their beautiful culture with different offerings like cultural food, performances, and showed their cultural clothing. As a student from a … Continue reading
New Vlog about the upcoming event – International Night!
Hey everyone, This week’s Vlog is all about the upcoming International Night next Thursday, February 20th 6-8pm. I interviewed the coordinator of the event and created this informative video. Enjoy. Music by Elastic Bond: https://youtu.be/LwBizunmmmA
Are students ready for the new semester? VLOG #1
I went to USG before school actually started to see If there were new things happening, and found some grad students that had their classes started before everyone else. Enjoy this short interview I did with them. Please comment and … Continue reading
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