Illini Bluffs - Leveraging Your Network For Post-secondary Success and For Life

In 1624, an Englishman by the name of John Donne wrote the words, “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” What he meant was we are all connected, one-to-another. Not only connected, but dependent in ways we may not even entirely understand. And, while that sentiment may fly in the face of the the ascendant rugged American individualism so popular in some quarters today, the fact is, John Donne was right; we really do need each other. I’ll illustrate what I mean and then I'll walk through some thoughts on how and why connections really work.