Tag Archives: inspiration
My Role Models
“That is one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.” – Neil A. Armstrong A few months ago, I wrote a post about people learning from their role models. At the time, I wasn’t sure I had a clear idea of who mine were, or, more importantly, why I would admire them …
The Rory Challenge
I’ve been learning a lot from analyzing the show, writing about it, and coming up with the list of tips and character guides. But I want to give myself some concrete tasks that will help me really learn from this experience. I guess most people would create a “30-day challenge” or something like that, but …
Quote of the Week: Teaching to Inspire
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea…” – Antoine de Saint Exupery I was in a group meeting today with my adviser and he was discussing with us the purpose of …
Day One
I’ll admit this one is a little off track, but I was looking through some of the posts I’ve written and the idea of the first day of school got me thinking. Throughout life we are constantly making resolutions to ourselves: to lose weight, to quit smoking, to get a new job, to get perfect …
50 Things | MIT Admissions – Some Advice for Rory
Take a look at this link: 50 Things | MIT Admissions. I found this through Facebook today, and, being in graduate school at the moment, I really appreciated some of this advice for college students. These tips are aimed toward both incoming freshmen and upperclassmen alike. The main idea is perspective – college is one …
Who is Your Role Model?
“I don’t want to be her, exactly. I just want to do what she does.” – Rory Gilmore For Rory, it’s Christiane Amanpour. This famous journalist has been a CNN international correspondent since the 1980’s. She worked her way up the ranks of the news network, starting with her time in the news department at …
A World of Her Own
From the very first episode, it is clear that Rory likes to be in a world of her own. She knows what she wants in life and it is that which she concentrates on. Even girls gossiping in class won’t distract her from completing an assignment for her English class. And it appears that she …
Harvard and the Inn
Although it’s only briefly mentioned in the pilot episode, Rory is driven by her desire to go to Harvard University. An entire corner of her room is dedicated to Harvard paraphernalia and that’s the one school she wants to go to. Also in her room is a large, detailed map of the world. It becomes known …
Gilmore Girls on Pinterest
So here is my Pinterest board for everything Gilmore Girls related. Pinterest is an amazing site for collecting images of all the things that inspire you, even if you have a wide variety of interests. If you can, you should definitely check it out. http://pinterest.com/jlmdiscovery/rory-gilmore/
Being Rory
So here it is: the main goal of my project. Here I will post about all of the lessons I’ve learned from watching the show. I will mostly focus on Rory, but it’s hard to do that without getting a healthy dose of Lorelai too. In fact, there is much to be gained from both …
The Gilmore Project 