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leave loaded with this desire and urgency and bewilderment. All at once. Because you’ve now just been inundated with really great poetry, with really great thoughts on poetry, with a cohort that is writing really great poetry, and now you get to go home and figure out where you fit in all of that.” The remainder of the MFA work happens between the students and “intentionally attentive” faculty mentors, as Barot describes them. Each month, students work on assigned readings and write critical papers

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Ambassadors What are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced since graduation? Work-life balance; finding meaning in the repetition and moments to still incorporate my passions and interests. Also, continuing to see all the people I care about now that our lives are becoming more different. How did PLU contribute to your success? PLU taught me how to be open to new experiences and willing to try things I know very little about. I also feel that I am able to make connections with people who are very

without regard to rank or position, demonstrating professionalism, courtesy, honesty, and care in the performance of their duties. Employees may not engage in any activities on the job that would place in danger the safety of others, nor may employees bring onto university premises or carry in university vehicles any items that could create a potentially hazardous or offensive work environment. (Also see policy on Possession of Weapons.) Employees may not engage in coarse or obscene language nor

from Lincoln High School and pursue a degree in English from Pacific Lutheran University. After graduating from PLU in 2008, Cushman jumped into being a teacher and mentor for students with stories similar to his own. As an English teacher and coach at his high school alma mater, Cushman strives to show love, compassion and care to students who might otherwise never receive them. He believes that adults are responsible for helping kids discover their own potential, and through his work tries to

Earle. Read More The other Washington This January, in the heat of a tense transition of power in the nation’s capital, a ResoLute writer and photographer witnessed some PLU graduates in action and documented a slice of their lives of leadership, care and inquiry. Learn more about their work in Washington, D.C. Read More Makers in the Making Meet three Pacific Lutheran University seniors who use graphic design, ceramics and more to create art. Angelo Mejia ’17 is an ROTC student who came to PLU as

fortunate that I can express myself on stage as a performer and a composer, and share my love of music with students and audience members. Sometimes I wish I had more unconstructed time just to let my brain lie fallow, so to speak. I literally just finished writing one ballet — the fastest I’ve ever composed anything. But it’s awesome that people want me to write music and it’s awesome that they seem to like to hear it. What a cool thing. Our quartet also plays in memory care centers and women’s prisons

throughout the book, the first handwritten Bible since the invention of the printing press in the 15th century. The 1,165-page manuscript, which has yet to be bound, and its authentic reproductions are massive — seven volumes, 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide when open. It takes 14 people to carry the whole thing into a church. So, I couldn’t carry it. But I can tell its story. For me, the story mirrors Pacific Lutheran University’s mission — a deep commitment to liberal arts learning, care for others and

, seize the moment. My jacket smelled odd for the rest of the J-Term trip, but I didn’t care, nor did anyone else. It was probably not just the jacket that smelled, but most of my clothes since we were on a ship for 10 days straight with no access to laundry facilities. But like I said before, totally worth it. In January 2010, I traveled to Antarctica thanks to Pacific Lutheran University’s study away programs. It was an experience I never in my wildest dreams thought I’d get the chance to live, and

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