Archive for February, 2009
Every Thursday night is reserved for weekly reunion dinners with the ILRies I don’t get to see anymore. For a school as small as ILR, it’s actually quite possible to lose track of people when you don’t have classes with them. Accordingly, I dined with one of my dear friends from Stats and Labor Law, [...]
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February 28th, 2009
ILRCB 2050: Collective Bargaining is the final core requirement that ILRies must compete. The study of how labor and management collaborate (or don’t) to write a contract for unionized employees, Collective Bargaining brings together every ILR field of the last three semesters and provides an on-the-ground perspective for what is really happening in the American [...]
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February 23rd, 2009
Three days of tropical weather came to an abrupt end this morning with a 20-degree drop in temperature, flood warnings, and a severe wind advisory. I woke up eager to sport something cute that I had put away until April, not having to layer my clothes, and wearing non-rubber footwear. My dreams evaporated with one [...]
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February 13th, 2009
“Branching out” is a recurring theme in my college years, so I would like to set foot in every single building on this campus before I graduate. I can’t even estimate how many academic buildings there are on our 745-acre campus, but I still think it’s a reasonable aspiration to visit every accessible building that [...]
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February 6th, 2009