“All of our students come feeling very passionate about wanting to make a difference in the world, but that looks different depending on the sorts of passions of that person,” Snell said. “I am a big proponent of educating everyone about how many different things you can do with an MSW degree.”
With the creation of Ophelia, a dating platform that focuses on in-person experiences, Brainerd wants to revolutionize this messy online dating world, bringing the URL to IRL.
“The most special moments of connection can only happen off camera,” Rosen said. “So that was an interesting, just like personal lesson for me as a filmmaker going forward as well, that sometimes you gotta let go of trying to get everything and just as important as what you do capture is also like the actual, genuine connections you’re making with the people who are in your film.”
On St. Patrick’s Day 1994, Amy Seigenthaler Pierce received a phone call that changed the trajectory of her life.
“We are going to go somewhere next,” Wind said. “I absolutely love this. There’s been nothing more fulfilling I’ve ever done in my life.”
“I like to tell everyone, even as I’m mayor, that I generally hate politics, and I generally hate meetings, so I decided to run for mayor,” Errico said. “But I love my community, and although I might not be the person that everyone thinks has the answer, I generally thought I could do a better job and leave Telluride a better place than when I found it, and so I ran.”
“It’s really interesting to be able to talk to people from so many different backgrounds and understand those nuances better,” Sehdev said. “And I think a lot of Schiller’s programs tend to be like that, because there are so many people from fields like economics, political science, law, and other different fields in the humanities, and then obviously a lot of STEM.”
“The biggest issue that we’re solving is on-campus delivery sucks,” Harrington said. “It’s time-consuming, it’s expensive, and it’s not optimized for college campuses. We’re solving the dining dollars crisis as well. We’re able to give students cash back for dining dollars that are soon to expire.”
“My plan is either Thursday nights or Friday mornings, I’ll take the three hour drive back home, campaign Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and then I’ll either come back Sunday night or early Monday morning,” Couzens said. “And, you know, repeat.”
“Who tells a story is so important,” Barrett said. “We need to make more room for other people to decide how stories are told and what they look like. If you don’t see someone like yourself doing it, it’s hard to imagine doing it yourself. I hope to be able to amplify those stories and amplify opportunities for people to do that.”
