Lessons Learned

Nice heartening post in Stud Life today. This is what it's about. Connect. Make a difference.

Workers teach many lessons - Student Life - Forum: "Indeed, reflecting back, I see that Jeff Stepp is correct - Washington University students should make a greater effort to meet and learn from the underappreciated individuals who sweep, mow and feed the campus. In fact, SWA was founded by students who befriended workers, learned lessons like those I describe above, and aspired to change some of the realities they found.

I am now in medical school - still at Washington University - and I know I learned things from campus workers that will make me a far better, more compassionate physician. I do hope that more Washington University students (and administrators) start learning some of these same lessons about life below the poverty line. I just wish they needed to look elsewhere to do so, instead of finding the lessons so abundantly present in the lives of essential members of the campus community."