{"id":5102,"date":"2014-12-04T15:49:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T19:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=5102"},"modified":"2022-03-23T16:21:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:21:23","slug":"120-in-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/120-in-six\/","title":{"rendered":"120 In Six"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Olivia<\/a>No way Olivia Gaines \u201918 will be bored this break!<\/p>\n

She\u2019s created an innovative and fun project to connect with alumni during the next six weeks called #Winter120. She\u2019s reaching out (first come, first served!) for book recommendations\u2014specifically books that have been influential to alumni and perhaps have been on their shelves since their very own K years.<\/p>\n

She will be reading passages from the submitted books over the break and plans on reading all 120 during the school year. Gaines will collect 120 \u2018thoughts\u2019 from the books, 120 answers to questions she will pose (one to each person who makes a recommendation), and a black-and-white head shot of all (hopefully) 120 participants. She plans on making an e-book of the final product and would love to make a printed version if her project proves successful.<\/p>\n

The idea came to her during a visit to the Center for career and Professional Development. Gaines does not have an internship for the winter break, but still wanted to connect with alumni. Gaines said, \u201cOne thing I learned during my gap year was that you can connect with people you wouldn\u2019t have thought you could connect with. How could I connect with alumni? Books. Everyone has books!\u201d<\/p>\n

For her the project represents a different way to connect with alumni, more personal than business. Gaines hopes to feel \u201cthe pulse\u201d of who these 120 alumni really are.<\/p>\n

And she\u2019s gearing up for the challenge: a reading pace of 20 books a week over six consecutive weeks. Wow!) Gaines says that her project is \u201cbig enough to matter, small enough to win\u201d.<\/p>\n

If you are a K grad and you would like to participate in #Winter120, you can register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Text by Mallory Zink \u201915; photo by Olivia Gaines \u201918<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/120-in-six\/\" class=\"pl-twiiter-share social-share-default pl-social-share\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fab fa-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><a data-share=\"linkedin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?url=https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/120-in-six\/\" class=\"pl-linkedin-share social-share-default pl-social-share\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fab fa-linkedin-in\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a>","wordExcerpt_info":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/12\/liviaGainesArt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5103 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/12\/liviaGainesArt.jpg\" alt=\"Olivia Gaines\" width=\"275\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a>No way Olivia Gaines \u201918 will be bored this break!<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s created an innovative and fun project to connect with alumni during the next six weeks called #Winter120. She\u2019s reaching out (first come, first served!) for book recommendations\u2014specifically books that have been influential to alumni and perhaps have been on their shelves since their very own K years.<\/p>\n<p>She will be reading passages from the submitted books over the break and plans on reading all 120 during the school year. Gaines will collect 120 \u2018thoughts\u2019 from the books, 120 answers to questions she will pose (one to each person who makes a recommendation), and a black-and-white head shot of all (hopefully) 120 participants. She plans on making an e-book of the final product and would love to make a printed version if her project proves successful.<\/p>\n<p>The idea came to her during a visit to the Center for career and Professional Development. Gaines does not have an internship for the winter break, but still wanted to connect with alumni. Gaines said, \u201cOne thing I learned during my gap year was that you can connect with people you wouldn\u2019t have thought you could connect with. How could I connect with alumni? Books. Everyone has books!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For her the project represents a different way to connect with alumni, more personal than business. Gaines hopes to feel \u201cthe pulse\u201d of who these 120 alumni really are.<\/p>\n<p>And she\u2019s gearing up for the challenge: a reading pace of 20 books a week over six consecutive weeks. Wow!) Gaines says that her project is \u201cbig enough to matter, small enough to win\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a K grad and you would like to participate in #Winter120, you can register <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1grRs5x8i8gLQJl5M22pyA84C_3ReyU46BpvMkz7rgGM\/viewform\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Text by Mallory Zink \u201915; photo by Olivia Gaines \u201918<\/em><\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5102"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9493,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5102\/revisions\/9493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5102"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=5102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}