A Look Back

As the new semester is about to start, I just wanted to take time and go over a little bit of LTI's history and assess how far LTI has grown over the past few years.

Last week I got a chance to talk with the founder of LTI (Yeseul Kim). In addition to discovering that Yeseul started LTI in the summer of 2007 in order to help disadvantaged students in the Boston community create community service projects that would improve their community, I learned what motivated Yeseul to start LTI in the first place. During this meeting I discovered that after her plans of traveling abroad on a fellowship scholarship didn't work out, she decided to instead volunteer teaching at a local high school. It was after this experience that she decided to start LTI in order to use the skills that she learned to really make a lasting impact on the Boston community. Through her organization and recruitment of
other likeminded individuals, LTI has become what it is today through all of the hard work and dedication put forth by Yeseul Kim.

According to Yeseul, everyday LTI is getting closer to being the type of organization that she envisioned in 2007. During our interview, Yeseul made it very clear that in addition to wanting LTI to be an organization that mentors students, she also wanted LTI to stand out by being an organization that builds a community were mentees one day become mentors. With all of the expansion and changes that have been made to LTI, I feel that we are getting closer to reaching these goals. And as such, I am confident that LTI will be a legacy that Yeseul will be proud of.

Your Public Relations Chair,

Walter Anazonwu

Making the Journey to New Places

Last weekend I went to see the movie Avatar. While the movie was very pleasent, the long cold walk back to Next House was unbearable. Once I got home, I went online to see how cold it really was outside (to see if my misery was in fact ligitament). In addition to being astonished by the -4°F on my computer screen, I immediately began to feel envy for all of the LTI staff members that were currently in Brazil. As I began to think about my friends being so warm, I started to reflect on all of the planning organization that went into making this trip to Brazil possible. It still amazes me how quickly LTI is growing and how far across the world it is expanding to. With the spring session almost here, I can’t wait to see all of the new changes that will soon take place.


Your Public Relations Chair,

Walter Anazonwu