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My Experience in Mozambique
My life has changed remarkably since my Mitchell year eight years ago. I am still living abroad, but serving in a much different capacity. In January 2015, I became a U.S. Navy Foreign Area Officer (FAO) with a focus on … Continue reading
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March 2010 Reflection
The fourth week I was in Galway I did not know what to do with myself. The second I had been livid. The eighth I was impressed. And now, I am pondering a crusade. In college philosophy class Shelly Kagan … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2009, National University of Ireland Galway, Queen's University Belfast
Tagged Human Rights Law, mitchell scholar, mitchell scholarship, National University of Ireland Galway, Queens University Belfast, Rebekah Emanuel, Yale University
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November 2009 Reflection
I am not the type of person that can quickly adjust to a new environment. It took me almost six months to get over my desire to return home to Alabama and to finally feel at home in Washington DC. … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2009, Queen's University Belfast
Tagged Adam Harbison, mitchell scholar, mitchell scholarship, Queens University Belfast, Rural Development, University of Alabama
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June 2009 Reflection
This time last year, I was in a hospital, visiting a good friend who had just swallowed a bottle of pills. His hospital room was packed with friends and family, and we played flute and guitar and sang. The nurses … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2009, Trinity College Dublin
Tagged Colby College, Creative Writing, Erin Rhoda, mitchell scholar, mitchell scholarship, TCD, Trinity College Dublin
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June 2009 Reflection
Relaxation always seemed a strange thing. My friends talked about times without activity, without thinking, without action, without feeling like they were missing something, and I never really understood why they craved it so much. Then again, maybe I’d just … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2009, University College Dublin
Tagged Dartmouth College, mitchell scholar, mitchell scholarship, Neuroscience, Travis Green, University College Dublin
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June 2009 Reflection
At Duke, my senior column was titled “A Senior Column.” Creative, I know. I had spent four formative years sitting at various desks in the Chronicle’s endearingly bedraggled, 1970s-chic newsroom. There, I had reported on jejune Duke Student Government policies, … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2009, Dublin City University
Tagged DCU, Dublin City University, Duke University, mitchell scholar, mitchell scholarship, Political Communication, Ryan McCartney
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June 2009 Reflection
As I walked down Dame Street with Chris, Katie, and KC the day after the Mitchell graduation ceremony, my taste buds ecstatic after ingesting Queen of Tarts’ phenomenal strawberry and rhubarb crumble, I realized what I would miss most about … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2009, Dublin City University
Tagged Development Studies, Dublin City University, mitchell scholar, mitchell scholarship, United States Naval Academy, Victoria Moore
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June 2009 Reflection
The main interest in life and in work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. Michel Foucault This has been a Foucauldian type of year for me. I came across the writing of Michel Foucault … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2009, University College Dublin
Tagged Georgetown University, José Canto, mitchell scholar, mitchell scholarship, Sociology, UCD, University College Dublin
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June 2009 Reflection
Without a doubt, the past three months have been the most exciting and rewarding for me in Ireland. In this time, I attended two separate and equally enjoyable Mitchell Scholar Retreats, explored Europe and North Africa with my beautiful wife, … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2009, Queen's University Belfast
Tagged Christopher Rosson, mitchell scholar, mitchell scholarship, QUB, Queens University Belfast, Violence Terrorism & Security, William Jewell College
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June 2009 Reflection
Throughout my undergraduate years at the Irish-centric University of Notre Dame, there was much discussion about a ‘new Ireland’—a dialogue that presumed the ongoing departure of the ‘old Ireland.’ This discourse declared that the Celtic tiger had brought wealth to … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2009, National University of Ireland Maynooth
Tagged Andrea Laidman, Anthropology and Development, mitchell scholar, mitchell scholarship, National University of Ireland Maynooth, University of Notre Dame
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June 2009 Reflection
I think, on occasion, that I’ve adjusted to Ireland. It’s the little things: freeze-dried coffee, bringing your own bag to the grocery store, being detached from e-mail access for a day – and the world not entirely stopping. But at … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2009, Trinity College Dublin
Tagged Albion College, Catherine Fontana, Environmental Science, mitchell scholar, mitchell scholarship, TCD, Trinity College Dublin
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June 2009 Reflection
As the giants and elves of Block 12 bustled about the kitchen of our dorm flat yesterday morning, trying to clean out our things before a moving deadline at noon, Brigitta paused from packing tea boxes to suddenly channeling the … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2009, University of Ulster
Tagged Grinnell College, Lara Janson, mitchell scholar, mitchell scholarship, Peace Studies, university of ulster
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