MEET THE GUTS STAFF 2009-2010

 

AMANDA SARAN
Director

Eye of the tiger

Graduate student in Educational Policy Studies

Tip: Compliment your left brain acivities with right brain activities on a regular basis.

Inspirational Quote: "Cause all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood." - Rocky

VIVIAN KAM
Associate Director

Graduate student in Curriculum and Instruction, Prevention Science

Favorite Qoute: “Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Kelly Saran
Office Manager

LifeScience and Communications Major

Tip: Exercise! Everyday, every week.

Inspirational Quote: "I cry every chance I get." - Richard Gere

Liz Stower
Study Skills Coordinator

International Studies & Political Science Major

Tip: Organize your time! Whether you use a planner, google calendar, or our time management grids, utilize the breaks you have to study earlier rather than later.

Fav Quote:
“Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.” -John Wesley

Danquian (Violet) Fu
Study Skills Program Specialist

Accounting Major
Inspiration qoute: "It's better to burn out than fade away."

Morgan Meyer
Study Skills External Relations Specialist

Tip- Know why you're here and keep that in mind when you're struggling.

quote- "Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one." ~Chinese Proverb

Leanna Linzell
McBurney Study Skills Coordinator

Rehabilitation Psychology Major
Tip you can offer students: Use a planner!!! It's the first big step you can take to get organized and manage your time.

Favorite Quote: "There's nowhere you can me that isn't where you're meant to be" -John Lennon

Abby Ginsburg
McBurney Study Skills Specialist

English Major

Tip: Making a study skills appointment on a regular basis is a great way to stay on top of your studying and course work. Even if there are no urgent problems one week it is still a great time to review and reorganize.

Inspirational Quote: Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. -Lucille Ball

FAN YANG
Conversational English Coordinator

Senior in Actuarial Sciences and Risk Management

Tip: A smile can make a bif difference.

Favorite Quote: Don't worry, be happy :) ; Invest for the future and be loyal to the reality

AMY BOWERS
Conversational English Specialist

Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies Major

Tip: Don't be shy, speak up!

Favorite Qoute: "A miracle takes three things: belief, desire and expectancy."

 

Michael O'Connor
Conversational English External Specialist

International Studies & East Asian Studies Major

Tip: Confidence is your biggest ally, shyness is your biggest enemy! Don’t be afraid of making errors.

Favorite Quote: “I’m your huckleberry” – Doc Holiday as played by Val Kilmer in the 1993 film Tombstone

Inspirational Quote: “Rest not! Life is sweeping by,
Do and dare before you die!” -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Elu Tu
Conversational English Communication Specialist

Curriculum and Instruction Major

Expectation for GUTS: Help people who crave knowledge.

Inspirational Quote:  The best way out is always through.

NICOLE AQUINO
Academic Match Coordinator

Elementary Education Major

Tip: Take advanges of all of the free events that occur on campus.  It is the only time in your life you can enjoy guest speakers, movies, and performances for no cost.

Inspirational Quote: "Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." Plato

ALEX OSTROMECKI
Academic Match Program Specialist

Senior in Biology

Study tip: Get to class 10 minutes early and study the last lecture's material. This way you can always keep up to date and keep the material fresh in your mind for the next lecture.

LEE JASTROW
Drop-In Coordinator

Graduate Student in Pharmacy

Dream Job: Blue Angel Pilot
Favorite TV Show: House
Favorite Movies: Top Gun, Varsity Blues, Not another Teen Movie

Christopher Kopp
SAGE Coordinator

Economics Major with emphasis in Business

Favorite Quote:  "The sound shivers through the walls, through the table, through the window frame, and into my finger. These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed. He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled. And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world."
-Lullaby, by Chuck Palahnuik

Study Tip:  The hardest thing about studying in Madison is saying, “No” to all the fun events that are always going on.  If you want to do better than you ever have before, my advice:  get a boring roommate.