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I haven’t had it in me to talk about the last Discoveries Unlimited M&M event until now. I’ve had a lot on my mind these past couple days, not to mention I had some thoughts to digest that were both personal- and mentoring-related. I just finished writing my weekly email to K. This week’s prompt was on career brainstorming. So this past Saturday the mentors [...]

Another M&M event today with my mentee K through Discoveries Unlimited. We were invited by the Society of Women Engineers at Valparaiso University to come and visit, look at their awesome VisBox, learn a little about engineering, and build a bridge out of K’NEX to be stress tested. I was most impressed with the VisBox demonstration. One of the programs we were shown was this [...]

Everyone from the Discoveries Unlimited mentoring program met up bright and early this morning at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore to learn about invasive plants and animals then go for a walk in the nearby park collecting seeds of native plants. These seed are to then be replanted not next year but the year after. I did my civic wildlife duty for the month… that [...]

Tonight was Discovery Unlimited’s M&M night, where mentors and mentees came together for the very first time during the fall semester. It was a casual meet and greet. When I arrived I picked up a name tag at the door. On the front was my name; on the back were the letters DNA. My mentee’s name tag would have something tied to those three letters. [...]

I was telling Rahsaan how I didn’t feel quite so guilty at having ravenously consumed way too many episodes of Code Lyoko over the last couple days. Did I need time off? Well, maybe and maybe not, but nevertheless I took the time anyhow. I’ve been working hard trying to find experience in everything, no matter how small or how “unproductive” it may be. Those [...]