Final Retreat: Learning What’s Really Important
Looking back on What’s the Story is like looking back on a class, a summer camp, a winding journey, an...
March Retreat: There is Nothing More Important Than This
I’ve thought those words over the past months more than I ever have in my life, and every time, it’s...
One Week Later: We Should Be Celebrating the Stories
One week ago, in Burlington and Winooski, I learned that the very best part of our project is talking to...
A Conversation with Kathy
Today I experienced a very different pre-interview than the last one I had, and a pre-interview that will likely take me...
One Interview Down: Stories Have a Way of Unfolding
Man, does it feel good that I finished an interview yesterday—and that I finished it smoothly, quickly, and well. That I...
A Note To My Team: What Now?
Dear Team, Going into my first pre-interview, with Shawna Shapiro, I’d like to get your advice. For all the talk...
Dec Retreat: This is Where It Gets Exciting
What I love about What’s The Story is that I never quite know where it’s going. It’s like the Labyrinth...
Week 3: Starting Conversations
This week, I began sending emails to start conversations that will hopefully lead to interviews. I started with three contacts:...
Week 2: We Have to Have Tough Conversations to Get Anything Done
Over the past week I continued working on my topic mostly by talking to my parents and looking out for...
Week 1: Sharpening My Focus
This week is my first week of my new topic—OUR new topic. In reading other group members’ blogs and doing...
November Retreat: Eager to Get To Work
The best conversations are those which end in excitement—and the feeling that they’re not over yet. Measured in conversations, last...
#8: Putting Together the Pieces
I want to help the environment in Vermont by changing the story of the Addison Natural Gas Project. I want...
#7: Part of the Solution (Part 2)
What would you do for the issue you care about the most? Make a website and a documentary? That’s why...
#5: Both Sides of the Pipeline
After much thought over the past week and especially on our hike yesterday, I decided that this week I want...
#4: If You Believe What I Believe
I came into this post still unsure about which of my previous topics to pursue. Do I follow the Vermont...
#3: Part of the Solution
Even since last week, I have been pondering and developing my emerging topics, synthesizing each newspaper article I read with the thoughts in...
#2: Do I have an idea?
Yes: I have no idea. No: I have too many ideas. Actually, I don’t know what ideas are. Seriously! What...
#1: Something About Everything
I am the one who wants to go further, the one who loves to learn. I am the curious one...
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