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academic year. It’s distinctive to PLU and characteristic of our collaborative, generous, and spirited culture. That culture is a product of all of the diversity of talents in this room. It takes a wide variety of skills, abilities, outlooks, and world views to create the PLU experience for our students. Everyone in this room is a key player—the facilities and grounds keeping teams are the Department of First Impressions and they help us all have a magnificent and beautiful campus on which to work; our

success to PLU’s broad liberal-arts curriculum. “My time at PLU gave me a strong foundation,” he said, “not just analytical skills, but being able to communicate with people, and to write lab reports, helped prepare me for the research world.” Proudest achievements: Gonzalez’s interest in plants made participating in habitat restoration projects at PLU a perfect fit. “The university sits on prairie land,” he explained, so going to pull weeds with a professor isn’t an unusual occurrence. “In my time at

financial analysts; Lauren as an accountant at Moss Adams.  Master’s graduate Chris will be teaching science at Washington High School; Melanie will be in elementary special education in Clover Park.  Sean is off to teach life skills through soccer in Uganda, while Nikki will be working to save lives in the ICU at Seattle’s Children’s Hospital. Yes, the Pacific Lutheran University Class of 2012 is ready for launch, and while the trails you have traveled make us proud; the paths lying ahead stretch our

Earlier this year, psychology major and South Hall resident Ally Stillwell ’14 decided it was time students like herself learned how to cook.  Stillwell moved into South Hall this fall after living in Tingelstad during her first two years. Like many of the hall’s residents, she didn’t have a meal plan, and although she had a fully equipped kitchen, she didn’t have the tools or skills to use it. “It’s kind of eye-opening because they’ve never had to cook for themselves,” Stillwell said of her peers. ”I

solely for the sake of shocking or enticing the audience. For example, during the Long Night, Arya randomly kills The Night King with super assassin skills after virtually no relational development between the characters over the last eight seasons. The Battle of Winterfell also provided major, beloved characters with sudden invincibility against the undead multitude. While this was set up (in part) there wasn’t sufficient emotional weight assigned to the events of the episode, and The Long Night

Americans in 2012, among his many other accomplishments. Hrabowski’s speech is sure to underscore PLU’s mission of critical thought and care, two ideals Bridgewater says she’ll take with her long after she walks across the stage this weekend. “PLU has taught me to approach challenging situations with an open mind and has given me the skills to equitably discuss divided topics,” she said. But that’s not all Bridgewater is taking with her as she starts on her path to firsts: “My biggest highlight from my

” professors like Justin Lytle—“my go-to professor when it came to anything science.” Through them, he found research opportunities on campus, at Cornell, and in the graduate program he’ll attend in Arizona, and he credits his success to PLU’s broad liberal-arts curriculum. “My time at PLU gave me a strong foundation,” he said, “not just analytical skills, but being able to communicate with people, and to write lab reports, helped prepare me for the research world.” Proudest achievements: Gonzalez’s

net worth of Mr. Bill Gates. Even though I may be poking fun through slight exaggeration, I am very fortunate to have experienced the challenging nature of coursework at PLU and the efficient study skills that I have fine-tuned. What’s next? Next year, I am very excited to be attending medical school in the middle of a desert. I was accepted into the M.D. program at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. For the last four years of my life, the worry has been about “staying dry” in the Pacific

. “It’s little things like a high-five or a handshake or a hug that help show how much you care. “I tell them all the time – I love that you are here today.” That acknowledgment isn’t just about being at school, but being a part of the school, a part of learning. “They’re not just learning to read, but they’re reading to learn,” Williamson said, as an example. “They are going out with these new skills to open the world to them and it’s cool.” As a learning specialist Miller works one-on-one and in

PLU start the process of helping you discover your Wild Hope right at the start. You have already been engaged in a lively and stimulating Orientation Program for the past several days. You have already begun asking yourselves what we call the Big Enough Questions: “What skills do I have?” “How can I best matter to other people?” “What legacy do I want to leave behind?” Our professional staff and faculty members have been prodding you to take full advantage of the smorgasbord of opportunities we