I’ve already blogged about it a little bit but I wanted to take the time to talk about my Greensboro trip to North Carolina last week. I went on the trip as a favor to the Undergraduate Admissions office that I work for here at Tech. The trip was eye opening and fun – and …
If this doesn’t get you pumped for the Georgia Tech game, I’m pretty sure nothing will…
Today, I had the opportunity to go to The Homeplace with some of the students that I’m in mentoring for the summer through the McNair Scholars Program. If you’ve never heard of The Homeplace, and you are Virginia Tech student, then you probably just weren’t a Virginia Tech student. The Homeplace is an all you …
Winning Choices is a character education program in Montgomery County public schools. If you know anything about my volunteer experiences while a student at Virginia Tech, you would know that I really enjoy volunteering with elementary school-age children and being an example for them in their everyday lives as well as helping them academically. Yesterday, …
I love the FISH philosophy. It goes back to my freshman year when I started volunteering with the YMCA at Virginia Tech as a freshman at Virginia Tech. A section of the four-part FISH philosophy is to “make their day.” That part of it always really stood out to me. And so, today I was …
Here’s an e-mail a student sent me after coming to my Admissions Information Session yesterday. WIN. Hey Justin, I don’t know if you remember me or not but my parents were asking about architecture and industrial design after your presentation this afternoon. First of all I would like to commend you on the first interesting …
I’m really into food. And as a result of being in Blacksburg for the first time without a student meal plan, I’ve had to take an alternative route in order to supply my body with loving nourishment. So I decided to take up cooking this summer – trying a ton of new recipes, and replicating …