Superweekend: How to Squeeze It All Into 48 Hours!

As many of you know, Superweekend is rapidly approaching. I'm excited and simultaneously crazed by all the activity. What to do? Perhaps the pell-mell pace of things has me just as twisted up as everyone else. I should back up, because I can almost hear some of you asking: "What the heck is Superweekend?"

Superweekend (April 17-19) is comprised of multiple interlocking and overlapping events occurring on Life University's campus. The cool thing and the tough thing about the multiple events? Most people want to do more than one event while on campus that week. Let's lay it out:

1) Vitalism Conference: This ground breaking conference is drawing not just chiropractors who are eager to explore the interface between a vitalistic philosophy and chiropractic philosophy and practice, but also academicians from a variety of fields. The on campus conference (Via the Life University Octagon) will culminate in a white paper, laying out the intersection of vitalistic thought across the professions and industries present. This really is groundbreaking stuff folks!!! A schedule and more info can be found here.

2) Life Leadership Weekend: The quarterly event hosts prospective students on an extensive look into the real world of Life University. We are expecting a big group this time and can't wait to hang out and show them not just the campus and the area, but what Life is all about. This event is free to prospective students and we are almost at capacity, so if you know someone who'd be interested in this, ACT NOW! Read more details here.

3) LIFEForce Appreciation Weekend: In case you've missed it...the doctors in the field are REALLY excited about all the exciting stuff happening at Life. Our alumni and friends have been actively recruiting for Life University via a program called LIFEforce. This weekend invites our LIFEforce members to come onto campus and to give Life a chance to give something back. The doctors will be interacting with the prospective students, with the Vitalism Conference and will have several VIP sessions just for them (dinner with Dr. Riekeman, etc...). Look forward to a great time, great thought, great fellowship, and a stronger connection to what is going on at the school and in the profession. And we pay for almost everything! Who'd want to miss that? Seriously?

4) Rugby Championship Sweet Sixteen: We are hosting the collegiate level eastern rugby championship games on campus. We are expect fans from across the east coast. Our boys won't be playing (wrong league) but there will be a rockin' rugby time going on none-the-less.


So, that's Life University Superweekend.

So, this begs the original question: How could you possibly squeeze all this into one weekend?

There are so many option, you really would do best by consulting an insider. That's us! Call the recruitment office and let us walk you though the schedules and options. Plus, we need to know where you want to be so we can plan for you. You scratch our back (call us! that's it!) and we'll scratch yours (hook you up with a great weekend).

Life Recruitment Team: 770-426-2751 or email me at mflannery@life.edu!

No Way to Avoid the Train if You're on the Right Track at the Right Time

Call it coincidence or lucky if that makes you more comfortable, but I'll tell you it's just the way the universe works. I was in Columbus, OH last week to visit OSU & attend the ICA Fitness Symposium. I hosted a couple of meetings for anyone interested in a Chiropractic career and visited advisors on the campus.

I met Vivian, a student at OSU, the last time I visited OSU's campus. She showed up to a drop-in Coffee & Career Talk that I hosted at Caribou Coffee. Vivian is great - she is that person who lights up the room with her excitement & passion. Through the course of her schooling, she had considered several career options, but none of them seemed to quite fit... until she found Chiropractic.

Vivian has already applied & knows her start date for the Chiropractic program at Life University, but she wanted to see me again just to say hello & find out what new & exciting things I could tell her about the campus. Unfortunately, I received a message from her saying she couldn't attend any of my events because she had just started a new job. I told her that I would check the conference schedule for the weekend & we would try to work something out.

Thursday evening, after trekking around OSU's campus for a day & a half, I arrived at the event hotel for the Fitness Symposium. I thought about curling up in my room & ordering in, but decided that the opportunity to network while eating at the hotel restaurant was a better option. I was tired, over-hungry, and not quite all together. As I approached the host stand, I found myself staring at the woman behind it.

Do you ever have that moment when you know that something or someone is familiar, but you can't quite place them because they're not in the context that you know them from?

The woman was watching me... and then we smiled at the same time. It was Vivian!

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine."

There is no way to avoid the train if you're on the right track at the right time.