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[OVCOUNSELING @OVGUIDANCE05733]

Two Candidates for the U.S Presidential Scholars Program! Congratulations Brigid Enright and Angelo McCullough!#ovvtpride#evenbettertogether

[OVCOUNSELING @OVGUIDANCE05733]

Check out how fabulous the transition camp for rising freshman was this summer! Thank you to all of the faculty, especially Melissa Hoyer, for making this happen! @ovtheatre @MrRuppel @OVScores
https://t.co/FdLTtD70Q9

[John Quinn @johnjquinn3]

This morning while walking to get to my truck I saw our neighbor helping another neighbor fix their driveway. You may recognize him, he’s also our Governor. You wouldn’t see this on his page because he likes to work behind the scenes more often than not. @GovPhilScott #vtflood23

[OVCOUNSELING @OVGUIDANCE05733]

Sea otter bites and steals surfboards in California.
Otter 841 is strong willed and tenacious 😊 she seems to also have an opinion about surfing! We do love our strong, independent, and determined Otters! #ovvtpride ⁦@OVScores⁩ ⁦@MrRuppel⁩ https://t.co/9EEoq8o6WS

[Rutland Herald @RutlandHerald]

Even the most diehard Vermont golfers have to accept the fact that their favorite sport simply isn’t a year-round possibility in the Green Mountain State. https://t.co/R3WGxBWzPc

[Rutland Herald @RutlandHerald]

The Little East champion Vermont State University-Castleton field hockey team will have a stronger Vermont flavor as coach Emily Lowell adds three in-state players in the incoming freshman class. https://t.co/LPijeYbkRk

[Abby McCartney @mc_abby]

Great piece on the underlying problems in our student debt & higher ed system, with some nice data viz to show your uncle (or your local SCOTUS justice) who likes to say "i paid off my loans, why can't you?" https://t.co/yDnixOCpOx

[What's the Story? @WTSVT]

Just 1 of many great moments from this year’s showcase. 14 filmmakers. 10 films. 5 states. 1 program!

This year’s films: https://t.co/PRqMO2jOzW

Thank U @Middlebury for 8 years of support and @ChamplainEdu for hosting this year’s event. @BLTNTeachers @TimOLeary_VT @rhlearning

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

On the 27th straight day of filming “Forrest Gump,” Tom Hanks was tired & worried.

During a scene on the famous park bench, Hanks stopped & said to director Bob Zemeckis,

“Hey, Bob…is anybody going to care about this movie? I don’t think anybody’s going to care.”

Bob replied,

“It’s a minefield, Tom. You never know what’s good…It’s a minefield! It’s a goddam minefield! We may be sowing the seeds of our own destruction.”

Tom Hanks told this story after he was asked, “When I ask for a memory from your career, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?”

He said that what Zemeckis said was true of every movie he’s worked on:

“There’s never any guarantee...You do not know if it is going to work out.”

Takeaway 1:

Hanks is the 5th-most highest-grossing actor of all time.

And yet, the stickiest memory of his career is the feeling of uncertainty.

Rarer than talent or work ethic, the poet John Keats wrote, is the ability to step into and push through doubts and uncertainties.

In 1817, Keats wrote a letter to his brothers to share this exciting realization.

“At once it struck me,” Keats wrote, “what quality went to form a Man of Achievement … Negative Capability.”

Keats explains that “Negative Capability” is “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”

Takeaway 2:

Those who possess Negative Capability, who can sit with uncertainty, who can spend months or years in the minefield that is working on something while knowing that there is a real possibility no one will care about it—they often possess another quality.

They do what they do, not as a means to some end (money, fame, awards, etc.), but for the sake of doing it.

When asked about one of his movies that commercially failed, Hanks said,

"I loved making that movie. I loved writing it, I loved being with it. I love all the people in it."

As Ryan Holiday once told me, "The work has to be the win."

You control the effort, he says, not the results.

"So ultimately, you have to love doing it. You have to get to a place where doing the work is the win and everything else is extra.”

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“Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're going to get.” — Forrest Gump

Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

[Rutland Herald @RutlandHerald]

Close to 90 graduates graced a small stage set up on Otter Valley Union Middle and High School’s Markowski Field at the school’s commencement ceremony Saturday morning. https://t.co/M2j6bP0IBp

[OVCOUNSELING @OVGUIDANCE05733]

Vt. students navigate test-optional college applications
Very proud of Jaden Grace and Derek Li for representing themselves and OV so well! ⁦@ovtheatre⁩ ⁦@MrRuppel⁩ ⁦@OVScores⁩ https://t.co/tIpxz3Hig1

[U.S. Department of Education @usedgov]

Everyone in the school community should feel valued for who they are & free to be their authentic self.

Our message to LGBTQI+ students, teachers, and staff as we begin #PrideMonth: ED has got your back.

[OVCOUNSELING @OVGUIDANCE05733]

A shout out to our mentor program tonight, especially our seniors! Thank you seniors for working with our incoming 7th graders with their last day of classes being tomorrow! What a gift to our community!#ovvtpride @MrRuppel @OVScores @ovtheatre

[Vermont State University @VermontStateU]

With temperatures in the 90s across Vermont today, be sure to do what you can to stay cool — like enjoy a creemee! 🍦🍦🍦

Find the creemee stand closest to your Vermont State location right here!
https://t.co/Jt0c4HYbja

[Holliston Library @hollistonlib]

Read with pride in June at HPL! The library is a welcoming place for all! #RainbowBookMonth

[Federal Student Aid @FAFSA]

Be on the lookout for scholarship scams and never trust anyone who asks you to pay to get help managing your federal student aid.​

Learn more about scams at https://t.co/ChcQaE5jVX

[Rutland Herald @RutlandHerald]

BRISTOL — The eighth-seeded Otter Valley boys lacrosse team's season ended on Wednesday, falling to top-seed Mount Abraham 19-3 in the Division III quarterfinals. https://t.co/YeG0cAm2U1

[Federal Student Aid @FAFSA]

Happy #WorldOtterDay! ​

One thing you otter do in the student aid process is review your Student Aid Report (SAR)!​

Here’s why: https://t.co/4RrJOFqYbL

[Stafford Tech. Ctr. @STC_VT]

Getting ready to honor our seniors as they graduate from their sending schools. #STCVT

[OVCOUNSELING @OVGUIDANCE05733]

Congratulations to the OV Stafford student's of marking period 4!
Cole Disorda-Auto Body
Nate Gaissert-Auto Tech
Zoe Elliot-Cosmetology 2
Way to go!
@OVScores @MrRuppel

[VTDigger @vtdigger]

Roughly 400 Vermont establishments hold licenses to sell creemees or soft serve ice cream. VTDigger obtained the data — and mapped it. https://t.co/zN2RqQUi8d