All the world's a stage

Tevin's big smile and even bigger heart welcomed all to our LA 151 class this semester. She instantly connected with her classmates and helped everyone corral into a dedicated learning team. Tevin is an artist and a filmmaker. She is also an actress. Simply put, Tevin shines.

Yet Tevin has taught us an important academic lesson this semester. Early tenacity and inspiration are not enough by themselves - we must push through and last long enough to complete the final leg of this race that we call life (and school). Per Tevin, her bad academic habits can be defined as a strong start, a petering out, and a weak finish. She caught herself losing momentum as this semester dragged on and on. This summer, though, she has an important audition with a performance arts college in New York. This is a girl who will be a star - but will she be able to keep up the hard work and waning motivation to get things done, even when she doesn't want to? I think it's a safe bet to say that no matter what the future holds for Tevin, she will achieve great things. Here's her blog.

The Great Motivator

When group project time rolled around this semester, there was one student who wouldn't stand for anything less than excellence in his group. Promising to get our perpetual latecomer, Adam, to class on time that day, Karl Muller made it is his personal mission to ensure that his group's project was the best that it could be. And it certainly was.

Karl not only worked his motivational magic on Adam, but on the entire class. He constantly and consistently pushed the students in our class to work harder, be better, and recognize challenges in order to confront them. Karl shared so much of himself, I am sure we will always remember him as the great motivator of LA 151. Here is Karl's blog and final project. I recommend that all of you keep an eye on Karl's photojournalism from here on out. This accomplished US Army veteran is going to be part of some great things.