What I’ve learned traveling around many of the world’s great cities. These tips are reminders for me. If they apply to you, fantastic. In May 2022, I graduated from New York University, and with it, said goodbye to a special chapter in my life. My lease in my beloved shoebox, 5th-floor walk-up apartment on the … Continue reading Urban Backpacking: 49 Tips for Long-Term City Travel
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Learning an Endangered Language: Catalan Immersion and Why Language Diversity Matters
When I was in 8th grade, my family in a small town in Vermont hosted an exchange student from Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona, unbeknownst to me at the time, is the capital of a region called Catalonia, which, for as long as the romance languages all broke off from Latin, has spoken its own language, called … Continue reading Learning an Endangered Language: Catalan Immersion and Why Language Diversity Matters
Aristotle, Enthymemes, And The Secret Formula of Spongebob Memes
This year, I read the classic book Rhetoric by the Ancient Greek intellectual Aristotle. This is the foundational text for persuasion and rhetoric. It has the whole “logos, pathos, ethos” thing that we learned in middle school. But there was one concept that Aristotle mentions at length, which he called enthymemes… Which explains ALL of … Continue reading Aristotle, Enthymemes, And The Secret Formula of Spongebob Memes
Quarantine Quavers
March 14, 2020 Manhattan at ~8:00pm on March 13, 2020 Last night I saw New York, the city that never sleeps, in its post-apocalyptic form. Times Square, by far the worst place in the city, showed me her bare beauty. Constantly lined with delirious tourists, unrelenting requests, and breath-shortening claustrophobia, only a pandemic could expose … Continue reading Quarantine Quavers
Restoring Posture In Junior Hockey Players
The first training session with the Vermont Lumberjacks this fall, I asked the group if they’ve ever felt hip flexor or groin pain. Literally every single hand went up. In my role as the strength and conditioning coach for the Vermont Lumberjacks, I’ve been able to witness how over forty 16-20 year old hockey players … Continue reading Restoring Posture In Junior Hockey Players
What I’ve Learned: Communication is Key
Note: This was the first article I wrote that was published on the Fit 2 Excel Blog. It was written in October 2017, just a few months into my journey as a personal trainer. ---------------------------------------------------------- Since I started as a personal trainer at Fit 2 Excel, I have learned something new every single day. Whether it … Continue reading What I’ve Learned: Communication is Key
David William Rosales 