The library hosted a lunch and learn on Sept. 25 to take students’ dreams to reality. The library hosts a lunch and learn twice every month to discuss different topics with students who attend. These may include adulting 101, life goals, studying abroad, financial aid and various other topics.
“The whole idea of lunch and learns are that we wanna add a supplemental program that gives you guys tools to do better in school, do better in life, feel better about yourself,” librarian Laura Falli said. “All kinds of practical things for life.”
At the lunch and learn, Falli discussed students’ future goals and what neuroplasticity is. Students wrote down their goals in a dotted journal and in the upcoming lunch and learns, each month students will document their progress in these goals.
“It was really nice,” junior Selma Meddad said. “It really inspired me to reach for more [be]cause I wouldn’t have thought of where I would be in December and if it wasn’t for that.”
Each month there will be two lunch and learns. One will include life goals and the other will be a different topic.
“It helped me see what I need to do in my life and get better in the future,” sophomore Chael Brown said. “I like how we got to sit and talk to each other and I liked how she explained stuff.”
Since next week is “fat bear week”, a week where bears start hibernating and the national park service has live cameras to see if you can get the fattest bear, the library will host many events every day that includes fat bears including a guesstimation jar, bear facts, bear stickers and more.
“The library is like a microcosm of the community and the world at large, so it’s a safe space to explore everything,” Falli said. “We’re just providing information on lots of different topics hoping to touch every student.”
To attend a lunch and learn, the library will send out an email a week before it for students to register and reserve a spot. The max is 33 students per lunch, so students are encouraged to reserve their spots quickly.
“That’s what we want [is] to help you,” Falli said. “When we don’t know enough about the material we’re lucky enough [that] we can have guest speakers come in and everything. This is not the sky’s the limit but we wanted to do whatever we can with whatever kids are interested in learning about.”
