Way Too Long
It has been way too long since my last blog posting, which I admit I snagged from my previous posting that I wrote for my job at Providence College. Since last May I've made a couple of major decisions in my life - one of which was resigning from my full-time job at director for student multicultural activities and returning to graduate school and the other was sharing my space with a new apartment mate who also happens to be (at least for me) an off the chart extrovert. Both decisions have been life-changing in many ways.
I have to confess that I LOVE being back in school full-time. What can I say? I love to read, study and write papers. My introverted self is loving all of this as I get to spend lots of time by myself and delving into interesting topics. Also I realized after having worked in diversity and social justice effort at PWIs (Primarily White Institutions) that I was emotionally, mentally and physically exhausted. As much as diversity and social justice is so very important to me (and is my life) it became obvious to me that what I was doing wasn't making much of a dent in systemic -isms on a college campus especially PWIs.
So here I am..happily studying while taking a breather to reflect on all that I did (and couldn't do) in the past fourteen years. More on that to come...
I have to confess that I LOVE being back in school full-time. What can I say? I love to read, study and write papers. My introverted self is loving all of this as I get to spend lots of time by myself and delving into interesting topics. Also I realized after having worked in diversity and social justice effort at PWIs (Primarily White Institutions) that I was emotionally, mentally and physically exhausted. As much as diversity and social justice is so very important to me (and is my life) it became obvious to me that what I was doing wasn't making much of a dent in systemic -isms on a college campus especially PWIs.
So here I am..happily studying while taking a breather to reflect on all that I did (and couldn't do) in the past fourteen years. More on that to come...
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