Educators from all over the country and a few from abroad completing graduate coursework at the annual Advanced Placement and Teachers’ Institutes, which started this week. Hi ya’ll!
App addiction is not necessarily a bad thing. There are some mobile apps out there that can be fun and useful at the same time.
Helpful stuff.
Far-flung students, send us your images!
More than half of students attend four-year colleges within 50 miles of home. Then there are those who cross countries and oceans. For the New York Times’ next Education Life, they want to hear from students who are making a cultural leap, be it cornfields to Goucher, Beijing to Baltimore. Send a photo of you in your home environment and a brief explanation to Kristen.pinheiro@goucher.edu by July 5.
The most recent Goucher Quarterly features a little article about the Applestein Sweren Book Collecting Prize, which I shared with my good friend Camden. Here’s a photo of us at our last English department party - I’m dressed as a Hobbit and Camden is Katniss Everdeen.
Cool!
There are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talk about much in the great outside world of wanting and achieving…. The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.
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| — | David Foster Wallace, “This is Water” (via one-wayward-girl) |
$74 Million
That’s how much money was saved by Maryland Green Registry members (including Goucher College!), proving that the path to sustainability is a team effort, both at the facility level and at the broader community level. The results below were achieved by Maryland Green Registry members between 2012 and 2013:
- 603,000 lbs of hazardous waste reduced
- 11.8 million lbs of nonhazardous waste reduced
- 532 million lbs of non-hazardous waste recycled
- 2.7 million gallons of wastewater reduced
- 446,000 gallons of fuel saved
- 9.8 million vehicle miles traveled (VMT) reduced
- 441 million kWh electricity saved
- 517 million gallons of water conserved
- 2.0 million metric tons carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO2e) reduced
this is a bit old like a couple of weeks to a month or two,but I thought I should share. While visiting my friends on campus I stumbled across these lovely gents practicing their instruments. I just sat there and recorded them it was extremely pleasant,I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
How lovely.
