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Senior Presentation, Lisa Diffenback
Lisa Diffenback '20, Liberal Arts, shared the following about her senior capstone project. Part of our Capstone was to present a poster as a visual promotion of our common read book suggestion. Considering the many women that have made Maria College the special place it is, it was important to me to choose an award-winning female author to share with the Maria community. Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson, received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2005.…
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“You are invited to help save the monarch butterfly”
Have you ever been made an offer you couldn’t refuse? If asked this question just a few short months ago, it would have taken some deep reflection before I could answer. Truth be told, I…
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Overcoming Challenges
It is difficult to lose sight of what is important during a time of stress. We often overwhelm ourselves with information, and find ourselves with more questions than answers. When this happens we feel stressed,…
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Jodie O’Connell Ponkos
My journey to becoming enrolled as an Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA) student at Maria College was an unexpected change of direction from the 25+ years as a Retail Store Manager. At the age of 16…
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Resilience
Stress is something that we all experience to one degree or another on a fairly regular basis. It comes in many forms and from many sources. Change, lack of change, the environment around us, even…
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