Category: Blogs

Self Improvement

10/17/08 (9:22 pm) | Blogs | By: J.J. Atkins

Greetings,

I came across something interesting in my search on the internet today and I wanted to share with the rest of you.  If you have ever read the “7 Effective Habits of ____,” you know  they suggest reading a self-improvement book every so often to spice up your life.  So in my search to better my managment skills I found a man named Randy Pausch–a former professor at Carnegie Mellon University.  He was presenting “The Last Lecture.” (Historically,  this is a scholar’s last attempt to teach his students the most valuable life lesson before he dies.) Randy had been diagnosed with cancer when he gave this lecture and has since passed away several months after. I found this presentation very enlighting! After viewing this I googled him and found his old web page– his family had posted the rest of his lectures online.

While browsing through the others, I viewed one of the top 5 presentation I have seen in my 20 years!  It was over “time management.” Who better to speak about time management than a guy who’s clock is ticking?  I encourage you to take 90 minutes out of your busy schedule and watch this!  It will be worth every second! The video is about half way down the page and on the left. This is the link: http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/

Please enjoy.

Regards,

J.J.

SGA Updates

08/20/08 (11:04 am) | Updates, Blogs | By: J.J. Atkins


Welcome Back!

Student Government hopes you had a fun and safe summer! We are looking forward to your involvement this year within the University.

In September we are launching our elections for Senate and House positions—applications are available online at jwusga.org/elections and are due Sept 15 at 6pm.  Also make sure to do your part and vote at elections.jwu.edu from Sept 29 thru Oct 2.  This year also provides itself with a special opportunity in the national elections arena.  JWU SGA will be co-hosting several informational and registration drives in late September/early October.

Our first meetings will be on Tuesday, September 16th.  Senate (student issues) will be meeting in the Yena Presentation Room at 8pm—all are welcome to attend!  Meetings will continue at 8pm in Yena every Tuesday the University has classes. The House (Club and Org side of things) will be meeting every Tuesday in CBCSI, 3rd Floor, Conference Room C at 6pm.  And the Judicial Court (internal affairs of SGA) will also meet Tuesdays at 5pm.

Relay for Life has also begun recruiting committee chairs. Please contact RelayForLife@jwusga.org for more information about chairing a committee.  Information about kick-off and teams will be released later in the year.

Please check out our webpage at www.jwusga.org.  For any questions or concerns, please contact SGA at 401-598-1091, sga@jwu.edu or stop by our office in CBCSI, 1st Floor.