This blog is dedicated to the students in Montgomery County Public Schools. I’m hopeful that some of the students from the schools I’ve been able to visit read this (Blacksburg Middle School, Auburn Middle School, Christiansburg Middle School, and soon, Shawsville Middle School). To you students who read this post: think about the importance of friends, community, caring …
Category: Personal
My lasting impact.
“Justin, what do you think your lasting impact will be?” That was, honestly, a question I had never mulled over. Ever. I wasn’t really sure of my answer either. I thought long and hard about it and I told the interviewer for Valley Business Front my honest answer. I was sitting in the middle of …
Elevator speeches.
If I have learned one thing while working in higher education, it’s that everyone and their mother has a different opinion about what is best as far as Career Services is concerned. On most American college and university campuses, career services serves as the in-between between a student who has yet to graduate and their …
Life’s curve balls.
Kristin, my wonderful girlfriend, has been recovering amazingly from a traumatic brain injury sustained back in November. Over the past few months we have been able to reflect, together, on ways that her accident and ensuing recovery have helped us grow closer at times that neither of us ever imagined that it would be possible. …
NEW BUSINESS CARDS GOT HERE IN TIME!
I ordered some new business cards ahead of the Kairos Global Summit this weekend on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Late last week I realized I only had about ten left – so I had to head over to my trusty business card provider, www.moo.com, and started to dig for some codes …
Needed to share this.
I’ve realized that a lot of people around me are very driven by what is the best decision for them, individually. I’ve realized that I have quite the difference in values – I’m trying to constantly make the decisions that benefit the greatest number of people around me. In trying to be better about updating …
I know. I’ve been miserable at updating.
I’ve always said that the point behind keeping a blog, a good blog at least, is to NOT go a long time without updating it. I promise – it’s never my intention to take such a long hiatus. And as that hiatus is being had, I feel bad, it’s like a little rain cloud just …