Monthly Archives: October 2014

Walking into Starbucks every morning I am too tired to form coherent thoughts. It is absolutely impossible for me to focus in any class without my morning cup of coffee from what I consider heaven. As I walk to the … Continue reading →

Choosing a college was more than just a decision. Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Princeton, St. Johns, Molloy, Baruch, Fordham. Name after name, letter after letter they come. There were so many to choose from. Names I have never heard of, to … Continue reading →

Growing up watching movies like Breakfast at Tiffany’s, You’ve Got Mail, and Sex and the City religiously, I’ve always had a glamorized perception of the city. So naturally I expected to live this fabulous life when I started living here. … Continue reading →

I walk in an undiscovered country, each step familiar yet the landscape around me new. I have walked this path before and I have not. Uncertainty filling each step as I walk along the ever changing road. So many different … Continue reading →

As one author so astutely described, “Mandela always appeared happy and accepting of having much of his life robbed from him while he was in jail” (Fregni, Kimberly: “Rule No. 6.” FRO Blog. 8 Oct. 2014). (See that in-text citation? … Continue reading →

In a 2008 article for Time, Richard Stengel, who knew has had numerous conversations with Nelson Mandela, complied what he believed to be eight practical rules – or lessons – for people to make “the best kind of trouble.” The … Continue reading →

To Mandela, every problem he had had many causes. He was faced with many obstacles as a politician and statesman. Those obstacles may never had a clear solution. Besides that, he had to make the decision of running away to … Continue reading →

For a man with so much to hate, Mandela did not show it. One of the things that really struck from the video and the article was Mandela’s level of control over his anger when he came out of prison. … Continue reading →

Nothing is black or white, no matter how much we try to make it so. No matter how we try to organize things in the world there are always exceptions or contradictions. I’d love a simple clear cut world but … Continue reading →

Nelson Mandela recently passed away, and is considered to be one of the most influential figures in the world. Times magazine illustrates Nelson Mandela’s keys to leadership with eight lessons. Lesson six is the one I find to be most … Continue reading →