I am a second-year undergraduate student in Antioch College. I am currently doing my second internship for an organization called the Crotched Mountain Foundation. This is a non-profit organization which is dedicated to serving individuals with disabilities and to help their families. Crotched Mountain was founded in
SCENE -- An OFFICE in WEST LOS ANGELES. A YOUNG MAN is sitting on a metal folding chair, wearing a HEADSET and looking into a COMPUTER. A CALENDAR on the wall is marked JANUARY. "Hi, is Ethel there?" "Hi Ethel, I'm a volunteer with the Coalition to
I'm not sure what my co-op blog post means to you, nor what insight or enjoyment you hope to gain from reading this. But my motivation for writing it—outside of its obligatory nature as a co-op assignment—is to give myself space for reflection and to
I’m sitting here in the midwives office waiting and wondering what time the baby in the other room will be born. It’s 8pm on March 8th and there are still several hours left of International Women’s Day. This morning just before 6am, a beautiful baby
My month-long co-op to Cuba has been in the works for much longer. It began my first year at Antioch when I started working for Community Solutions and was told of the possibility that I could travel to Cuba as a part of my work
This past weekend, GLCA (Great Lakes Colleges Association) consortium member, DePauw University hosted an International Conference/Workshop on "The Liberal Arts and Global Citizenship: Theory and Practice." Antioch College faculty members, Hassan Rahmanian, Lara Mitias, and Luisa Bieri traveled to Greencastle, Indiana on Friday, February 24th
During this co-op, I worked in the Oceanography Lab at Oregon State's College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences as a lab tech where my duties ranged from making chemicals to running samples and data entry. It was my responsibility to become proficient with the
Buen Dia Family School is a Preschool in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. Buen Dia is special wherein it focuses on the individual creativity and merit of art in early childhood development. (You can read more about their mission here) I am a
My third co-op finds me in lovely Washington, D.C. After my first co-op, I knew that I wanted to come back and experience more of the thriving political mini-metropolis that is D.C. Not that Yellow Springs is not a nice place to live and work
Jeff Romig, M.D., Visiting Assistant Professor of Human Physiology has formed the Antioch Pre-Professional Association (APPA). The APPA is geared toward students interested in pursuing a post-graduate degree in the Sciences or the Medical Arts (Ph.D., M.D./D.O., D.V.M., D.D.S./D.M.D., Psy.D.), and all are welcome to
