The Other Lobe of The Brain

A Blog About Experiential Education, Social Media, and the Brain…

Preparing for Co-op Abroad – The Ultimate Internship
 
Lily Chryssis and Jim Stellar
 
Lily is a graduate of Northeastern University in 2004 as a major in Political Science & International Affairs who took advantage of the co-op program.  Later she got a Master’s degree in Middle Eastern Studies at the American University of Beirut.  She returned to [...]

Learning while tutoring in writing
 
Chloe’ Skye Weiser, QC ’13 and Jim Stellar
 
Chloe’ is a double major in English and Environmental Studies, a Macaulay Honors College student, and a frequent partner in conversation about undergraduate education at Queens College.  She has a broad range of experiences and is pursuing undergraduate research, but what really grabbed [...]

Mistaken for a Native … abroad
 
Emily Monaco QC ’12 and Jim Stellar    
 
Emily is a major in History with an interest in the ancient world and a Macaulay Honors student at Queens College who just returned from a study abroad trip to Italy.  What makes this trip different is that at some point it became [...]

Albanian to American in higher education
 
Enkelejda Demika NU ‘09 and Jim Stellar
 
I first met Enkelejda at a high school science fair and immediately noticed a combination of the classic education hunger of an immigrant to US with that kind of intelligence that is at once academic and instinctive (e.g. otherlobe).  We met repeatedly over the [...]