Breakfast is one of the most important meals in a day. Eating an adequate portion early in the day can provide lasting energy to tackle the rest of the day. For AU students, this means more effective studying sessions and a fruitful day spent juggling between academics, personal, and professional lives. Hence, shortly after waking… Read more »
For New Year’s Day, what topped your resolutions? To look as fit as bikini-clad Wonder Woman? As fit as shirtless Ryan Gosling? Or as fit as Michael Moore’s speedo? Every New Year, I make resolutions for fitness—with failing willpower. But this year, I got fit and healthy. And magic happened. My size-six executive wardrobe fits. … Read more »
According to the syllabus, PHIL 333 (Professional Ethics) is a three-credit, third year philosophy course that “highlights ethical issues pertaining to journalists, engineers, medical doctors, accounting, finance specialists, and lawyers.” PHIL 333 is considered a humanities course that has no prerequisites and can be challenged for credit. Professional Ethics is comprised of nine units and… Read more »
Dear Barb: My husband and I have been married for seven years and we have two young children. Our married life has been pretty good. We have never broken up, but we have come close a few times because of my husband’s drinking. Sometimes he’ll drink too much and doesn’t come home all night, or… Read more »
According to the syllabus, ADMN 233 (Writing in Organizations) is a three-credit introductory business and administrative studies course “for students wishing to improve their written communication as it applies to the workplace. Writing in organization involves a problem-solving process requiring that one analyzes situations, make decisions, and inform others of those decisions.” Writing in Organization… Read more »
Do you want to write like an illiterate? Like Stephen King stripped of K-12? Like J. K. Rowling at a loss for how to handwrite the letter “H”? I’d bet you do—that is, if you love Shakespeare. Some say Shakespeare, an illiterate, honed his mastery in adulthood. Others say he had a ghost writer. As… Read more »
Faithful readers of this space may remember that in 2017 I wrote about author Debbie Macomber’s decades-long habit of choosing one perfect word to focus on for a year. She chose words like wisdom, prayer, surrender, hope, purpose. My own experiment with the word ‘kindness’ was not a total failure. I didn’t do all the… Read more »
Last year, we addressed the idea of us, noble scholars, reduced to asinine drudgery and suggested that behind our mild-mannered veneers we have a cornucopia of fruitful intellectual possibilities. We posed the question, is truth itself impossible? Education means philosophical inquiry, even if it’s only to realize that each act we engage in and each… Read more »
Have you ever been dying to host a dinner party, wanted to impress the guests, but also not to drain your wallet? I realized the crux to hosting an excellent party doesn’t all depend on the food, but it certainly is one of the highlights. So instead of going out of your way to scroll… Read more »
What brings you pleasure? Lunch at a comedy club? Lunch by a still pond? Or lunch loaded with Redbulls and ballpark franks at a spelling bee? I once got highs over perfect math grades. I’d stare at math textbooks until midnight, solving problems. A 100% exam scored a victory. Anything else, meh. Yet, I fretted… Read more »