Community Engagement & Colleges

Toddlers waddle around, socially distanced, barely understanding why their friends and them are wearing masks and prohibited from touching one another. It’s tense, but ‘Ms. Lauren’ does what she does best: keep the peace, maintain good feelings for the kids, and provides a welcoming environment in a world seemingly without one.

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Beating Emotional Burnout | 5 min read

Emotional burnout. What is it? College senior and ardent student activist Chris Carvell, sees it as “The point in time when your ability to fulfill one or more of your responsibilities becomes hindered by the stress you feel from those responsibilities and other outside forces.” Chris Carvell Emotional burnout, or fatigue, is common in activists […]

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Conquering the Quarantine | 8 min read

Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life … but poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. Robin Williams, Dead Poets Society If this quarantine has given us anything, it’s loads of time(even though I seem just as busy!), and that means re-watching old classics like […]

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Welcome to the 1st Gen Family!

Noah is a first-generation college student from Sunbury, Pennsylvania. He graduates from Susquehanna University with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations (Class of 2020), and is the founder of 1st Gen Class. He has worked in various student affairs positions from 2016 on, including service in residence life, admissions, tutoring, and student conduct over […]

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