“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 there is one, I think you just got to work. So some of that frustration is like, you just get used to a system and then boom it changes again. I think we have a lot of great teachers there and all students have the opportunity to learn, they just have to take advantage of the opportunity…In... Read More

“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 the place where I have the closest friends.”- Patrick Lynn (Patrick has lived in Boulder since 1987)  Read More

“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 of ways… I call my brother, “Brother”, because I did that as a kid. (lots of laughing) I didn’t like calling him Nicholas or Nick, and it just stuck. I love it, I still can’t call him Nick, I try sometimes and it feels weird. People think that it’s just the weirdest thing, his friends will make fun of him and start calling him “Friend”,... Read More

“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 kind of went on my own, now one else in my family is really into that, so I kind of just learned from that and decided that bow hunting was more of a challenge. My family is very competitive, so the more competitive it is the more I want to do it.”- Jordan Champion  Read More

“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 my way up to abroad… I am excited to start a new chapter, to be honest with you. I feel like at 30 you’re at that age where you have a little bit of wisdom in you now, and the whole traveling thing has opened my eyes a whole lot as well. So I’m just ready to start something... Read More

“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 everywhere. It is a basic science, a fundamental science. Whatever you want to do, you want to be an engineer? You need chemistry. You want to be a medical doctor? You need chemistry. It’s very exciting.”- Hememt Sharma  Read More

“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 vast ocean of nothingness. We are on a rock spinning around a ball of fire and we can’t appreciate that enough to not kill our planet. But I am hopeful; I think there is a lot of good stuff happening.” -Patrick Glynn  Read More

“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 what I must learn, therefore the things that I work on with other people are the things that I am also learning myself. It is really all one in the same. Where does one start and one end? I really have no idea.”- Tiffany Higgins  Read More

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 up, so it felt like her childhood home. All of the things our grandparents had wanted to pass on to us when they moved, they left up there, and everything from my parent’s childhood, we just kept it up there because we didn’t have room for it at our house. It was this place that... Read More

“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 I decided nope, I’m not going to do that. I mean if people want me to do rendering at home that’s great, but not on the computer. I enjoyed learning it but I can’t sit on the computer for 8 hours everyday. I would go crazy.”- Kathleen Lanzoni  Read More