December 2010
8 posts
Email
Sent: December 7, 2010 9:49:42 AM
From: Megan Gebhart
To: Torya Blanchard
Hello Torya, My name is Megan, I’m a senior at Michigan State. I am currently working on a yearlong blogging project called 52 Cups of Coffee. Each week for a year I am having coffee with someone I don’t know and writing about what I learn and how I change in the process. I came across Good Girls...
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Cup 20
Person: Sam Rosen
Drink: regular coffee at Lovely, a bake shop
If I handed you a pen and said, “what is this?” you would say “a pen.” If I asked what you do with a pen, you would say, “write.” And you would be correct because that’s what it is, and that’s what it does.
But what if I handed the same pen to a dog? He wouldn’t use it to write, he would use it as a chew toy. Is he wrong? No, from a...
Email
Received: December 8, 2010 12:39:54 PM
From: Brett Kopf
To: Sam Rosen, Megan Gebhart
Sam-congrats on the full launch. Say hi to Meg, a friend & blogger. She’s still a student at MSU, started 52cups and is on quite the roll. She’ll be in Chi & thought you’d be a great person to interview…she’ll be here tomorrow-Sunday, hope you guy’s find time...
Cup 19
Person: Stefan Olander
Drink: Medium Americano from the Nike cafeteria
I got my first pair of Nike running shoes in eighth grade—back when it was a feat to finish five miles. By senior year of high school, I had a dozen pairs piled in the corner of my closet, worn from countless miles traveled along the familiar streets of my hometown.
My interest in running continued to grow and in 2008, I...
Email
Received: October 22, 2010 9:26 AM
From: William Ward
To: Stefan Olander, Megan Gebhart
Hi Stefan,
I am writing on behalf of a student that I would like to introduce to you and who I have copied on this email - Megan Gebhart.
Megan has a great year long blogging project she initiated called “52 Cups of Coffee”. Every week for a year she has coffee with someone new and...
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Cup 18
Person: Vince Foster
Drink: Grande Americano from Starbucks on Grand River
Academic advisors are supposed to be a support for students. Not for Vince Foster, his career as an accountant was motivated by an advisor who told him he couldn’t.
During Vince’s undergraduate career-and probably still today- accounting was considered the toughest major within the business college. When it came...
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Update
This project has been an experiment to see what would happens if I invited 52 new people into my life.
I’ve been writing about what I’ve learned along the way, now it’s time to start talking about what’s happening because of these cups.
For example:
During my conversation with August Crabtree—Cup Three—we discussed our mutual interest in photography. Since...
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Email
Received: November 8, 2010 4:54:35 PM
From: Vivian W. Leung
Megan – Your name came up at a meeting today that I attended and I wanted to reach out to you. I heard about your 52 interviews and thought that it sounded like an incredibly interesting project. I have a donor coming in next week and wanted to know if you had next week filled? Sorry for the short notice. He is an MSU...