Think of the why as a mission or purpose. What is yours? Think of the how as the sometimes mundane, but sometimes joyful or painful carrying on of everyday life. How often do your why and your how meet? As COVID-19 mercilessly reorders how our lives are lived, we have a unique opportunity to reexamine our why.
The global pandemic had prompted me to think back to my first reading of Thomas Mann’s classic novel, The Magic Mountain. I felt compelled to write to my former history professor and then reached out to some Assumption history alumni, inviting them to join me for a virtual book club.
Prof. Sarah Rose Cavanagh, Ph.D., discusses the impact of recent social technologies like smartphones and social media on mental health. In sharp contrast to the doomsday pronouncements in the popular press, the relationship between smartphones and mental health is complex and not without positives. She shares some tips.
As Catholic institutions across America move toward programs in the STEM fields, it is important to preserve schools of thought in the humanities while drawing connections to post-modernist epistemology. If faculty can move away from the notion that these are contradictory schools of thought, students will benefit academically.
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