Thanks, Dr. Claire Robbins, for sending this to me!

Friends, in a demonstration of eloquent timing, my professor sent me this link I had yet to see.  We had ran into each other just after class, as we both become students at a workshop that was all about measuring Ut Prosim in Tech students, by the VT-ENGAGE office.  Both the workshop and the story made me so excited and really realize that TEDx is less than a month away!

This link, from VT News, is a highlight of the TEDx event coming up at Virginia Tech in just a little under a month.  If you haven’t heard about this event just yet, there is at on of information about it on the left side bar of my website.

I’m excited to share my talk with the world, which I’ll be practicing in front of a portion of the TEDx Steering Committee this evening. From there, they will give me feedback on how to improve it. So. Pumped.

I’d also like to point out this recipe that my professor made us for class today in honor of completing our first draft of our final papers! I’ve never tried a savory muffin before, but the onions in these Queso Fresco muffins actually were pretty tame.  Kristin, I know your’e reading – we can maybe try this recipe together?

Overall, today has been a really good day though. I woke up on time even though I forgot to set my alarm.  We have a big literature review for my student development class due on Thursday, so if I’m a little MIA from posting and from social media please forgive me. Between that paper, a few other papers, and trying to nail down the details of my TED talk, time is sparse.  Yet I still have [embarrassingly] a folder on my desktop that looks like this…

I’m primarily referring to the TEN items in this folder of “blog posts to write.” I am literally starting to feel like it will be November by the time I get around to blogging about tubing from the summer, and recipes from August. But whatever. I will get them nonetheless, if nothing else, because I said I would! But with graduate school came no time for leisure reading or blogging! I still am able to leisurely write for other things with some frequency – which is nice – between Virginia21, the Collegiate Times, my sister’s up and coming online publication, and raking up things for my e-portfolio, but time budgeting is becoming increasingly difficult as my standards for myself and my classwork increase, also.

But, nonetheless, those blogs will come eventually. :)

Thanks for reading! Again, as always, if you have any random questions you’d like for me to answer please click on the logo on the left side bar, just underneath my face.

-Justin