Category Archives: Academics

Home Sweet Midwest

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I’ve been home for a week now and it’s finally settling in that I’m here to stay … at least until December 17 when I cross that stage. 😉 As I was coming back home it truly felt like I was just coming back for a few weeks to visit everyone and then I was […]

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Technology: Taken for granted?

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Max Trzebiatowski As we begin to get geared up for the school year and our SBE Academic and Career Advising Center gets ready for all of the new and returning students, we find that more and more of what we do in our office is technology based. This summer we embarked on a project to digitize […]

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Defining Professionalism: Step One

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Max Trzebiatowski One of the questions that we ask peer adviser candidates when they apply to become a peer adviser for the School of Business and Economics is, “How would you describe professionalism in your own words?” Professionalism is defined by Merriam-Webster as the skill, good judgment and polite behavior that is expected from a […]

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Ciana Rose: Finding her bliss

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As a University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point first-year orientation peer mentor, Ciana Rose met many incoming students in June, where she challenged them to think differently.Although many students will think of failure only in classroom terms, Ciana wants students to realize failure exists outside of the classroom, and a fear of it can keep us from […]

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My first delivery

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This past week the Havenetts decided that it would be a great idea to bring both us interns along on a delivery. I was beyond excited to go and after that day I was not only grateful but even more in love with interior architecture. Being able to see a project go on first hand, […]

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Six Degrees of Separation

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Max Trzebiatowski Have you ever heard of the six degrees of separation theory? My blog today talks about the idea that you are way more connected that you think. Even after you drop all technological devices; your family, friends and connections all have family, friends and connections, too. This past weekend my family and I attended […]

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First day as an intern

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My name is Monica Castillo and I am from South Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I will be a junior at UW-Stevens Point and I am an interior architecture major with an international studies minor with an emphasis on Latin Countries. I actually chose UWSP due to all the study abroad options it offers, I will be studying […]

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HPW Internship: Wisconsin Athletic Club-North Shore

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HPW Student Internship Experience – Haley Palubicki 15′  My time here at the North Shore Wisconsin Athletic Club (WAC) has been the best and broadest experience. At the start of my 10 week journey, the WAC was just beginning to go through a company-wide change of paper contracts to a paper-free computer system MotionSoft. Being […]

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Finding Jobs: Where to Look and What you Need

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Max Trzebiatowski Hi there! Today’s conversation starts with the overall economy and funnels down into how you can become visible in today’s job market. If you’ve ever taken an economics course before, then you’ve heard of the unemployment rate. This is a measure of all the men and women in the workforce who are unable to find […]

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HPW Internship: Olmsted County Public Health Services

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HPW Student Internship Perspective – Melissa Mady Interning at Olmsted County Public Health Services has given me the opportunity to experience everything that the public health department does. From taking what I learned in Epidemiology and getting to experience a pertussis (whopping cough) outbreak in the Rochester area which included calling cases and writing case […]

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