Blog #2

Icon #1: My Bubby (Grandma)

My Bubby, which is the Yiddish word for grandma, represents an Icon of perseverance and strength. To me she is the definition of an icon that inspires people because of her ability to push on through her life, despite the unjust and despicable acts that were committed against her. At the age of 18, my Bubby was captured and placed into a concentration camp in the Holocaust.

Her life was constantly hanging by a thread and she unfortunately lost everyone in her family. But she lived and what impacts me the most is how she did not allow this atrocity to keep her from living her life. What was important to her was life itself. She could have been angry and mad at the world for what happened to her but then the enemy would have won. Instead, she decided to follow her passion of cooking and being a mother. She allowed that experience to teach her the value of life and lived every moment, till the very end, as best as she could.

Blog #1

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Being as it is Junior year, there are many things that I am looking forward too, but one that stands out most is Internships. I really enjoyed visiting my fellow advisees' Internships last year because I was able to understand what was required of them in a general sense and what their actual internship required of them. It was interesting to see how different every persons' Internship was and the reasoning behind choosing it. I think the three weeks will be a great opportunity for me to pursue something that interests me and see if it is something I would like to continue on with when I'm older and make a possible career of. But I also think it will be a time to really have fun with something and learn what it's like to actually be out there in the real world and not having people to fall back on. You're on your own in a sense and I think it's going to be challenging and exciting at the same time.