The premise is: Please Support My Team as we Prepare this Proposal. The theme is: Rhubarb as a Metaphor for Resilience.
It's an excellent metaphor not only for resilience, but for community, caring, sharing, and strength and persistence in adversity. This summer I split off four baby rhubarbs and gave them away, two to a friend who did her BS degree at UAF decades ago, and now returned and accepted a faculty position with us. It's very apt for both her and me, since we are both not native to this region, but proceeded to put down deep roots.
The rhubarb plant requires almost no care, and thrives through intense heat, rain, sun, smoke, clear skies, wind, hail, lightning, good economy, bad economy, good president, bad president, good governor, bad governor. The rhubarb lives on.
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Love your clean and semi-formal (not interview kind of suit) look. Hope you and the audience enjoyed your presentation with good results. Rhubarb is a good analogy to your school's current situation. Best wishes.
Thank you, mdr.
Your Fall 2019 class scheduled? If so, can they still change it due to their 41% crazy cut?! They will make native Alaskans less educated and less competitive, forever the lower socioeconomic citizens. Politicians don't care about them because they are the real "minorities" when it comes to voting numbers, besides, they are not as vocal as other so-called minorities. Sad and unfair, but not any regular citizen has the power to change it.
Always remember the "lost horse story" in all adversarial situations.. Life is not a cup of water, you cannot see the bottom. Never in a million years, I could ever foresee selling mhs.
@mder, I'm still teaching. Engineering is one of UAF's flagship programs, so I really doubt it will be cut. ME is one of the few departments that has been growing.
ME is useful in real life, I,am glad ME is safe. Don't forget they have had a great teacher too -- knowledgeable and witty.
You look great! The rhubarb analogy is wonderful. I also think of rhubarb as an act of love, because we always have rhubarb apple pies for the fall and winter holidays. To make those pies, someone has to be thoughtful enough to grow or buy rhubarb during the hot season and then freeze it so we can enjoy it in the winter -- the pie with a 5-6 month thoughtful preparation always tastes the best!
@bt, that sounds wonderful, although classic strawberry rhubarb is still my favorite. :)
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