Living the Lancer Life: MLLC 2012: Part One

This past weekend I had the great opportunity to attend Longwood's annual Mountain Lake Leadership Conference (MLLC 2012). I had heard about it a bunch of times from my sister, who is a S.E.A.L member. S.E.A.L is the organization on campus that puts on the conference every year. The conference is held at the Mountain Lake Hotel, which happens to be the place where the movie Dirty Dancing was filmed, which is my all-time favorite movie. Well I'll get to that in the other parts of the blog posts to come, let's actually talk about the conference.

The theme for this year was "Millennial Leadership." They had sent out an email before going to the conference that had a link to the blog that had all the weekends information on it. I was kind of skeptical when I was reading the workshop briefs, but once I got there I realized that I could actually really use this knowledge to help me. The sessions had to deal with technology and using it in different ways. I attended sessions on “Where Do you Draw the Line,” “Digital Identity Development: How to Live Your Life Online,” “Social Media Tools 101,” and finally “Sleep: Who Needs It?”

Over a series of my next few blog posts I’m going to go over the different sessions I went to and the things that I brought back from them. I learned a lot of information that goes from Facebook security to the best times to nap and how to improve my sleep habits. I will also talk about the amazing experience of climbing the mountain and getting to see the amazing sunset as it slowly went descended behind the mountains. I hope that the information that I share with you all will help you in the ways that it was able to help me. I was able to come back from the weekend and actually use the information directly when I got back.

A great experience we had was having a great keynote speaker, Ed Cabellon. He taught two of the workshops that I went to and gave the opening and closing speeches of the weekend, and he was very very helpful.

So, stay tuned for more information from this weekend and amazing pictures at the top of a very beautiful mountain. Ohh, and don’t forget you will hear lots about my obsession with Dirty Dancing and the fact that I was at the hotel where much of it was filmed.

Here are some previews of the amazing pictures that I have from this weekend. (There is an obnoxious amount more to come very soon.)