“The thing that is frustrating as a teacher is this constant state of flux with philosophies that come and go with maybe administration in your building or maybe the school board philosophy. And everybody has this secret recipe for how to be successful and how to get these kids to do better. I don’t think […]

“My personal experience in Boulder has probably gotten better because more of my friends have moved here and I have developed a large network of friends. So I would say that’s my dominant experience of Boulder, is my friendships…I think I will continue to live in Boulder, I’ll probably die here. This is by far […]

“My parents got a divorce when I was six, so I grew up mostly just with my brother and I, and we would change houses every week. Which was sort of hard I think, but it also allowed my brother and I to get really close. I feel like he raised me in a lot […]

“I do white tail deer hunting…I do bow hunting, no shot gun, nothing like that. It’s more of a challenge. Instead of shooting a deer from 300 yards away I’m shooting one from 30 yards away…When I was a little kid my grandpa gave me a shot gun, you know, the whole nine yards. I […]

“I graduate college in may… I definitely want to live abroad at some point, that’s my ultimate goal. So I think right now what I am trying to look for, as far as jobs, is maybe find an international company thats headquartered over there, but they have  branches here. Start here and then eventually work […]

“I am a professor at a college, I teach chemistry…I am doing research, we are doing mainly polymers. Those polymers can have connecting properties so that’s what we are looking at…We are making long chain polymers…because polymers are everywhere, we need polymers… To discover something new is always very exciting. I think that chemistry is […]

“I want to spend as much time as possible living in foreign countries. That has been the best and most amazing thing I have done in my life so far…That’s what my goal really is, to see as much as possible. It saddens me how we have this one beautiful sphere of life in a […]

“I was a teacher and the human condition was something that I have been enamored with. That is really why I liked teaching, is working with the kids, their hearts…I am an experiential facilitator. I work with groups that have an intentional goal to become more aware of some aspect of their groupness… I teach […]

Moriah speaking on the loss of her family’s cabin in the lower north fork fire. “Hearing that it was completely gone and there was nothing left was pretty devastating, especially for my mom because It was my grandparents cabin and they spent every weekend up there as much as they could when she was growing […]

“I loved architecture rendering because I was either drawing or painting everyday. That’s before, I’m dating myself, before it was a lot of computer work. Really, it was mostly hand done. I went back and took some auto keg classes and I really saw sitting at the computer was not my thing at all. So […]