Category Archives: Amy V.

SPAFCS and how I’m in it

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I’d love to say that I’m sorry and I’m finally done talking about FCS (family & consumer sciences), but I’d be lying. Because I’m going to keep talking about FCS for one more post, just give me one more post and also because I don’t even feel bad. I love FCS. If you don’t love […]

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How I got sucked into the CPS

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As I keep saying and saying and saying, I started my first year here as an English and German double major–and stick with me, I’m going somewhere with this. I can actually pinpoint the moment in my first UW-Stevens Point German class where I began to think that while I loved the language, teaching it […]

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Student Orgs: Why I get involved, and why you should, too

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  I’ve mentioned before that I’m involved in stuff. At the end of my last post I mentioned the importance of involvement with student organizations here on campus. I guess I realized as I continued to think about it that my feelings on the subject are more than what fits into a little blurb at […]

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Family & Consumer Sciences

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At stronggggg advisal from my parents, I spent my first year of college at a two-year in the UW system, about a 15-minute drive from the town where I grew up, Slinger, Wis. I commuted in my beat-up old Dodge Neon and lived at home. I transferred to UW-Stevens Point for my sophomore year rather […]

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UWSP SGA – What’s up with it?

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I’ve always been big on signing up for things. This is probably the first thing and possibly the most important thing to understand about me, other than my awful, dry, and sarcastic sense of humor. My friend Ryan Specht, with whom I worked on an independent writing credit, suggested last spring semester that I consider […]

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Meet the busybody: Amy Vida

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Hi! My name’s Amy, and I’m an English and family & consumer sciences education double major (who really wishes she could pick up German as a third). I am going to graduate from UW-Stevens Point in December 2016. I really, really like education. A lot. A lotttt, apparently. (send help) I’m from Slinger. It’s a […]

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