Author: evanpetschke

I had one of those moments today. That sudden stop moving, start seeing moment of realization that life is so incredibly beautiful. One of those moments where you take a second to breathe after running running running through it all and you open your eyes and goose bumps cover your entire body and a chill […]

I’m not really sure how to describe today other than totally, completely surreal. I woke up to the sunshine, which I’ve come to know in Iceland is very rare. I visited the little coffee shop that already feels familiar, walking the streets that in just one day feel like old friends. I followed this wonderful […]

Traveling alone is a curious sensation. As a first time solo traveler, I had no clue what to expect. It wasn’t loneliness, really, this feeling that swept over me as I wandered through this foreign place where no one knew my name, where I had no connections. As someone who spends a lot of time […]

You know that feeling when you are in a really important conversation, and you have the PERFECT idea/thought/comment to add, but for the life of you, you cannot spit out the one word you need to make the sentence complete? That’s how I’ve felt for a while now. Except that word I’m searching for isn’t […]

We all have those days. Those days when we feel like we are not good enough… Someone else gets that one thing we wanted so badly. We receive a rejection email from our dream job. We feel like we’ve accomplished so much yet no one else seems to care. Maybe… maybe we simply just feel, […]

We all go through those times where we cannot even remember what happiness feels like. We live our lives day in and day out without a true smile ever crossing our face. We try to think through what’s happening but our brains are just a jumbled mess of confusion and chaos. We do everything to […]

“Profit” and “social impact” rarely go hand in hand. However, it is important to realize that sustainable investing can turn a profit. What’s more important? To realize that sustainable investing is crucial to economic development today. Making small yet mindful investment decisions on our part can have an incredible impact on those in developing societies. Please, watch […]

There is so much knowledge in the world. Every time I pick up a new book this thought storms my mind. To think of how many books, pieces of literature, journal articles, blog posts, news pieces, and all that’s left unwritten but neatly stored in the crevices of our brains — it’s almost overwhelming. I […]

Selfies. Hashtags. Filters. Snap stories. Followers. Retweets. Likes. Isn’t it crazy to think these words — most of which did not exist when we were first brought into our world — now consume so much time in our daily lives? Social media is a curious thing. Wonderful, sure, with the power to do real good. […]

Sometimes it just hits you. Time flies. It feels like just yesterday I was an eager, naive freshman wandering around my college campus, mesmerized by the opportunities surrounding me. Fearless. Without worry of where I was going next. My next four years were covered, already planned out. My biggest source of anxiety being how to […]