The Random Thoughts of Louis Schmier

Each day, in any given semester, I read anywhere from 120 to 160 daily first-year student journal entries. This morning I read 123. Like most days’ entries, some are silly; some are poignant; some are filled with “too much information.” Some are short one liners; some are shorter one worders; some are paragraph and pages [...]

I had a partner on my walk this morning: Frosty the Snowman!! It was a clear, sharp, cold pre-dawn morning. 44 degrees! The first brrrrrrrrr of the year. And while the northeast got hit with a layer of white snow, we woke up to an early, brown-out, pine-needle-fall. Nevertheless, in spite of the chill that [...]