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<Title>PROMISE Fall Harvest Dinner &#8211; November 18, 2011 at...</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Full Title: PROMISE Fall Harvest Dinner – November 18, 2011 at College Park<p>Dear Students, Alumni, and Friends of PROMISE,</p>
    <p>Our annual PROMISE Fall Harvest Dinner is coming soon! Save the date: Friday, November 18, 2011.   Please register using the following link:  <a href="http://www.cvent.com/d/qcq8x4" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://www.cvent.com/d/qcq8x4</a>. You may bring a guest.  We will be dining at Adele’s Restaurant in the Stamp Student Union on College Park’s campus. Transportation will be available from Baltimore. Please register today; spaces are limited.<br>
    Dinner at Adele’s is always delicious! This is the PROMISE “Thanksgiving” Dinner. Please register soon to reserve your space. This dinner buffet is valued at more than $25/per person but it is free to you and your guest thanks to co-sponsorship by the Graduate School at College Park and the Graduate School at UMBC.</p>
    <p>This event promotes networking, community building, and connections between research and other interests across campuses.  Please reserve your space today.</p>
    <p>Kind regards,<br>
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<Summary>Full Title: PROMISE Fall Harvest Dinner – November 18, 2011 at College Park Dear Students, Alumni, and Friends of PROMISE,   Our annual PROMISE Fall Harvest Dinner is coming soon! Save the date:...</Summary>
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    <p>Several graduate students have expressed a need for assistance with MATLAB.  In order to assist you with understanding some of the more advanced concepts of MATLAB, PROMISE, the Graduate Student Development Unit of the Graduate School, and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics will sponsor a special, customized session for graduate students and others who want more in-depth instruction. The service will be provided by the <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/circ/index.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Consulting (CIRC)</a>.</p>
    <p>Special MATLAB Workshop<br>
    Friday, November 11, 2011<br>
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    Engineering Building (ENGR), Room 122</p>
    <p>Features:<br>
    _________</p>
    <p>* A prepared demonstration of numerical computation in MATLAB<br>
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    <p>This session is being coordinated by Professor Matthias Gobbert, with support from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. We thank Dr. Gobbert for putting the session together.</p>
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    <p>Several graduate students have expressed a need for assistance with MATLAB.  In order to assist you with understanding some of the more advanced concepts of MATLAB, PROMISE, the Graduate Student Development Unit of the Graduate School, and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics will sponsor a special, customized session for graduate students and others who want more in-depth instruction. The service will be provided by the <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/circ/index.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Consulting (CIRC)</a>.</p>
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    <p>Presenters:<br>
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<Title>Real People Profiles: Chisom G. Ebinama</Title>
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    <div><span><em>I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.</em><br>
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    <div><span><strong>Name: </strong><span>Chisom G. Ebinama</span></span></div>
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    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span><strong>Hometown: </strong><span>Fulton, MD</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><strong><span>Q: How long have you been at UMBC?</span></strong></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span><br>
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    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span>A: <span>I have been at UMBC for about 2 and half years; prior to that, I went to a 2 year college where I schooled for a year.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span><br>
    </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><strong><span>Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?</span></strong></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span>A: Student Government Association  (SGA) Senator and a Resident Assistant (RA)</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span><br>
    </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span><strong>Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?</strong> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span><br>
    </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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    <div><div><div><span>A: <span>Facilitating a positive student experience at UMBC while creating a platform for them to be heard. </span></span></div></div></div>
    <div><div><div><span><span><br>
    </span></span></div></div></div>
    </div></div></div></div></div></div>
    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><strong><span>Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?</span></strong></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span><br>
    </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span>A: <span> </span><span>I very much enjoy interacting with diverse people with similar or broader knowledge on campus, academic and social spectrum of life. I also like reaching out to students who are eager to contribute positively to their community as well as to their personal growth.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span><br>
    </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><strong><span>Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?</span></strong></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span><br>
    </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span>A: <span> </span><span>I have learned that in order to excel in college, one need to be determined, focused and be willing to face and overcome challenges.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
    </div>
    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span><br>
    </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><strong><span>Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"</span></strong></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span><br>
    </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span>A:  Table Tennis</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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    </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><strong><span>Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?</span></strong></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span><span><br>
    </span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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    <div><span><span>A: </span><span><span>There are two places that come to mind upon reading the above question—one is the 5th floor of the library where I very much recommend to anyone that is eager to study without any distractions. My second favorite spot would be the SGA common space, where I would be spending most of my time when I am less occupied. </span></span></span></div>
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    <div><span><strong>Name: </strong><span>Jes Lassiter</span></span></div>
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    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span><strong>Hometown: </strong><span>Huntsville, AR</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><strong><span>Q: How long have you been at UMBC?</span></strong></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span>A: <span>About a year and a half, and loving it!</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><strong><span>Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?</span></strong></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span><strong>Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?</strong> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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    <div><div><div><span>A: <span>I facilitate living and learning within my hall and the residential community.  </span></span></div></div></div>
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    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><strong><span>Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?</span></strong></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span>A: <span> </span><span>I enjoy working with students of all types: first-year vs upperclassman, domestic vs international, humanities majors vs STEM majors vs undeclared majors, etc.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><strong><span>Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?</span></strong></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span>A: <span> </span><span>I learned that a person's experiences in life shape how they view and evaluate the things that are happening around that.  We are constantly changing how we see things, and we have the ability to change and be changed by the perspective of others.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><strong><span>Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"</span></strong></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span>A:  science-fiction/fantasy novels</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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    <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><strong><span>Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?</span></strong></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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    <div><span>A: <span>Students are always telling me that they mistake me for a fellow student, or parents are asking me if I'm a junior or a senior.  I don't mind at all; in fact, I like surprising others!  It is really nice to be considered a part of this great community, even if I have to explain my role!  Students, faculty, and staff have always made me feel welcome and at home here.  Go retrievers!</span></span></div>
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    <span>As you may have heard, UMBC is conducting a survey about academic integrity.  Every UMBC undergraduate and graduate student, and everyone who teaches classes here, has the opportunity to participate.</span><br>
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    <div><span>I'm a member of the committee sponsoring the survey at UMBC (it's a national survey run by the Center for Academic Integrity), and I can tell you the results are going to make a difference.  As we consider the future of academic integrity at UMBC, we want to know: In your view, what counts as cheating? How much misconduct is occurring? How are people responding to incidents of misconduct?</span></div>
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    <div><span>The survey is takes about ten minutes to complete and is completely anonymous.  <span>Completed surveys go directly to the Center for Academic Integrity and no identifying information is included.  So please participate, and be candid!</span></span></div>
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    <span>When I walked into my childhood home in Los Angeles late on a Tuesday night in October, what struck me first were the things that had not changed.  It had been more than six years since my last visit, and in my memory the house had taken on a soft glow like a half-remembered dream.  But as I stood with my parents in the family room, seeing for the first time the kitchen they remodeled half a decade ago and the souvenirs from recent trips abroad, what I really noticed were the tangible reminders of a bygone age: the familiar brick fireplace, the wallpaper, and the books still in their places on the shelves.</span><br>
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    <span>Alone in my old bedroom at midnight, I opened the doors to what had once been my closet and found, undisturbed, my collection of plastic bins.  Each was filled with artifacts from a specific period in my earlier life: school papers, awards, letters, receipts, buttons, handwritten notes, official bulletins.  In a time before electronic data storage and ubiquitous cell phone cameras, these documents and artifacts had been the stuff and substance of everyday life.  I pulled out one of the bins, with the label “Harvard Law School, 1989-1991,” and began to sift. </span><br>
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    <span>At first I was simply hoping to find anything that might have mentioned a certain fellow student who had been elected President of the United States since the last time I had opened the bin.  (I did, but nothing more interesting than a school directory).  But I got caught up in memories.  Here was the final exam I took in Evidence, my scribbles all over the typed page; here was my research for the first year Moot Court competition; here the minutes of some tense Law School Council meetings.  Suddenly I was 22 years old again, lonely and full of self-doubt, in an alien place that left me cold.  In copies of the newsletter I had created for my first year class I saw signs of my conflicting desires to belong to the group and to belong only to myself; to dive in and to seek shelter.  At midnight 20 years later, I could see with perfect clarity both how far I had come since the time of the bin and how my younger self persists in me.  I treasured having direct access to the memories of rough times (and some good ones too), and felt grateful for every vital aspect of my life today that I could never have envisioned years ago.</span><br>
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    <span>Later in my visit, my parents suggested that I take those bins with me back to Baltimore.  Someday, maybe I will.  But for now, I’m very glad to know that all those artifacts are safe in my old closet, in airtight containers, never fading, thousands of miles away.</span><br>
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    <span>Twenty years from now, what will you discover in your bins?</span><br>
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    <span>STRiVE is a highly regarded, 5-day student leadership retreat, but none of those words really conveys the wonder of the thing.  I've been a facilitator at each of the annual SGA- and Office of Student Life-sponsored retreats, and each has been a highlight of my entire UMBC experience.  At STRiVE, student participants (and staff and student coaches) who start as strangers rapidly form and learn from the experience of creating an incredibly strong community.  STRiVE is fun, energizing and, for many, life-changing.  I know it has been for me.</span><br>
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    <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_OFtfEbf8is/TqlW-leYOkI/AAAAAAAABYQ/Cq5nvU_xjqI/s1600/167633_1839194461371_1285823805_32191514_8049379_n.jpg" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span><img height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_OFtfEbf8is/TqlW-leYOkI/AAAAAAAABYQ/Cq5nvU_xjqI/s320/167633_1839194461371_1285823805_32191514_8049379_n.jpg" width="320" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></span></a><span><span><span><span>Through games, activities and reflection, STRiVE participants hone leadership skills, develop campus and social change projects and build networks.  Participants emerge feeling confident, inspired and connected. Participants' ratings of the retreat have been off the charts: 100% of participants say they'd recommend STRiVE to a friend.</span></span></span></span>
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    <div><span><span><span><span>STRiVE 2012 will take place from January 9 - 13, 2012, at the Skycroft Conference Center in Middletown, Maryland (participants will travel by bus from the UMBC campus). A team of 12 UMBC staff members and student leaders will serve as facilitators for the retreat.</span></span></span></span></div>
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    <div><span><span><span><span><strong>To learn more about STRiVE and complete the application, go here: <span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/umbcstriveapp2012" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://tinyurl.com/umbcstriveapp2012</a>.  </span></strong></span></span></span></span></div>
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    <div><span><span><span><span><span>You can also read my post-STRiVE reflections and check out some photos from STRiVE 2011 (<a href="http://cocreateumbc.blogspot.com/2011/01/four-days-to-synergy.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">here</a>), STRiVE 2010 (<a href="http://cocreateumbc.blogspot.com/2010/01/strive-2010-shared-peak-experience.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">here</a>), and STRiVE 2009 (<a href="http://cocreateumbc.blogspot.com/2009/01/reflections-on-strive.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">here</a>).</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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    <div><span><span><span><span><span>The application is due by Friday, November 11<sup>th</sup> at 5:00 p.m. If you have questions about STRiVE, send me an email: <a href="mailto:dhoffman@umbc.edu">dhoffman@umbc.edu</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<Summary>STRiVE is a highly regarded, 5-day student leadership retreat, but none of those words really conveys the wonder of the thing.  I've been a facilitator at each of the annual SGA- and Office of...</Summary>
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    <div><span>Here are the rest of the life lessons I mentioned in <a href="http://my.umbc.edu/news/9635" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">a previous post</a>: Things I had not yet worked out or did not feel confident about when I was in college, but began to gain clarity about later as a result of reflecting on my experiences.</span></div>
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    <div><span>Most of these ideas also have been written about by other people, but my understanding of them is the product of personal experience.<br>
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    <li><span>College is not merely preparation for life. It is life.</span></li>
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    <li><span>People always respond to the entire context of a communication, not just to the words it contains.</span></li>
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    <li><span>Criticism reveals and reflects upon the critic.</span></li>
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    <li><span>In-the-moment negative emotions such as guilt or fear can be extremely useful in illuminating a situation. They can provide clues about the motives, understandings, insecurities and emotional states of other people, especially those whose behavior is sparking the negative emotions. They can deepen self-understanding. The trick is to learn to read these emotions without either suppressing or being overwhelmed by them.</span></li>
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    <li><span>Sometimes the hardest thing in the world to see is what is right in front of you.</span></li>
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    <li><span>People sometimes view choices you make for yourself, but which they would not (or did not) make for themselves, as judgments against them. This is all the more true if the path you choose is one which, at some level, they regret not having chosen. It is easy to be confused by their resulting hostile reactions, but it would be a mistake to be deterred by them.</span></li>
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    <li><span>Every new insight subtly alters your knowledge and perspective about everything you thought you already knew. Each new experience subtly alters your perspective on every aspect of your past.</span></li>
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    <li><span>You aren’t really from somewhere until you go somewhere else.</span></li>
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    <li><span>Changing the world for the better does not mean seeking a stable point beyond which the world stops changing. People need to be involved in ongoing, challenging, cooperative work to advance the common good. An essential aspect of being human is confronting and contributing to the mitigation of life’s imperfections.</span></li>
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    <li><span>Love involves giving and receiving permission to be who you truly are.</span></li>
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    <li><span>A mouse trapped in a maze never sees the maze, only a series of straight paths and corners.</span></li>
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    <li><span>Knowledge derived from breaking things or processes down into their smallest component parts is incomplete. It excludes the broadest patterns, most subtle and profound connections and deepest meanings.</span></li>
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    <li><span>All people yearn, at some level, to become whole, connect authentically with the universe, be who they really are and fulfill their potential.</span></li>
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    <li><span>What feels like inability and weakness may actually be undiscovered or unrevealed talent and strength.</span></li>
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    <li><span>Winning an argument is not the same thing as achieving progress toward the objective at the heart of the argument. Sometimes winning an argument can hinder such progress.</span></li>
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    <li><span>Staying too close to an admired person for too long can stunt one’s growth. When the admired person is nearby, adopting the person’s admirable behaviors and thought processes may feel presumptuous or unnecessary.</span></li>
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    <li><span>All conscious perceptions involve value judgments and assumptions, as do all descriptions of things or situations in the world. No word can precisely express any objective meaning.</span></li>
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    <li><span>A part of the judgment involved in human perceptions is the filtering and prioritization of inputs. In order to focus on the highest-priority information, people take vast portions of their experiences and environments for granted. They adapt to their environments unconsciously, absorbing and relying on a common set of values and assumptions, some of which they might reject if they ever became fully aware of them.</span></li>
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    <li><span>Instincts, intuitions, emotions and dreams are extremely important sources of knowledge. The knowledge they reveal is intrinsic: located within the unconscious mind and relatively untainted by conditioning. Much intrinsic knowledge relates to people’s own true identities and deepest yearnings. The suppression of intrinsic knowledge causes depression and anxiety, and stunts personal growth.</span></li>
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    <li><span>Symbols need not take the form of words, numbers and pictures. All things, people, actions and failures to act are symbols. Symbols can reveal fundamental truths because the unconscious mind invokes intrinsic knowledge to decode them.</span></li>
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    <li><span>The contributions of the greatest scientists, poets, authors, artists, builders and leaders change not just our experience but our capacity to imagine. As a result of great works, there are more available thoughts.</span></li>
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    <li><span>Great teachers empower students to think new thoughts, and expand the scope of their free will.</span></li>
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    <li><span>Excellent teaching is not primarily about transmitting academic content from the mind of the teacher to the mind of the student, but about liberating knowledge and capacities already present in the student.</span></li>
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    <li><span>True teaching transforms the teacher. True leadership transforms the leader. True love transforms the lover. True life is transformation.</span></li>
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<Summary>Here are the rest of the life lessons I mentioned in a previous post: Things I had not yet worked out or did not feel confident about when I was in college, but began to gain clarity about later...</Summary>
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    <div class="html-content">Over the next few weeks, UMBC will host two organizations that are looking to fill postdoctoral positions in the Biomedical Sciences.  Gladstone Institutes, affiliated with the University of California San Francisco will be on campus on Friday, October 28, 2011, NIDCR will be at UMBC on Monday, November 21, 2011 [NEW, updated 11/15/11], and the [...]</div>
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<Summary>Over the next few weeks, UMBC will host two organizations that are looking to fill postdoctoral positions in the Biomedical Sciences.  Gladstone Institutes, affiliated with the University of...</Summary>
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