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The contest is open to all currently enrolled Butler undergraduates who have completed two or more semesters at Butler or another post-secondary liberal arts institution, and the submitted essays are judged by a committee of Butler University faculty drawn from various disciplines. The student who writes the winning essay wins a $1000 prize and is featured on the LAS Essay Contest webpage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The essay contest is named in honor of Kristi Schultz Broughton.&nbsp;Although not a Butler grad, Kristi was an avid supporter of Butler.&nbsp;Kristi was an elementary school teacher and a Butler Mom whose life exemplified the values of liberal education and a commitment to teaching and learning.&nbsp;The contest is made possible through the generous gift of Kristi&#8217;s sister Karen Schultz Alter &#8217;85 and brother Steven R. Schultz &#8217;88.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"link-list layout-links\" >\n    <div class=\"link-list__container link-list__grid-default\">\n                        <div class=\"list-list__linkWrapper link-list__grid-default\">\n                                <ul class=\"wysiwyg__ctaLinks\">\n                                                        <li>\n                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/arts-sciences\/essay-contest\/essay-contest-requirements\/\" class=\"button-link-right button-link-right--color-blue-bright\" >Submit an essay in this year&#8217;s contest!<\/a>\n                                <\/li>\n                                            <\/ul>\n                                \n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"link-list layout-links\" >\n    <div class=\"link-list__container link-list__grid-default\">\n                        <div class=\"list-list__linkWrapper link-list__grid-default\">\n                                <ul class=\"wysiwyg__ctaLinks\">\n                                                        <li>\n                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/arts-sciences\/essay-contest\/essay-contest-winners\/\" class=\"button-link-right button-link-right--color-blue-bright\" >Read previous years&#8217; prompts and winning essays<\/a>\n                                <\/li>\n                                            <\/ul>\n                                \n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<div class=\"acc-flex-container\">\n\t<div class=\"acc-title-container\" role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"3\">\n\t\t<button id='block_acf-block-69b861bca2e98-acc-row' class='acc-row' type='button' aria-expanded='false' aria-controls='block_acf-block-69b861bca2e98_acc-content-panel'>\n\t\t\t<div id='block_acf-block-69b861bca2e98-acc-title' class='acc-title'>\n\t\t\t\t2024\u20132025 Essay Prompt\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<img alt=\"\" id='block_acf-block-69b861bca2e98-acc-img' class='acc-icon' src='https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/arts-sciences\/wp-content\/plugins\/butler-acf-blocks-new\/assets\/images\/nav_main_icon_open.png' \/>\n\t\t<\/button>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div role=\"region\" aria-hidden='true'\n\t\tid='block_acf-block-69b861bca2e98-acc-content-panel' class='acc-panel' aria-labelledby=\"block_acf-block-69b861bca2e98-acc-row\">\n\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-connections-between-self-care-mindfulness-and-the-liberal-arts\">The Connections between Self-Care, Mindfulness, and the Liberal Arts<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Self-care and mindfulness are two concepts that have become common points of interest in order to live more stimulating and thoughtful lives. In what ways has your liberal arts education and its attendant experiences allowed you to better practice self-care and mindfulness?<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\t\t( function( $ ) {\n\t\t\tlet panel = document.getElementById('block_acf-block-69b861bca2e98-acc-content-panel');\n\n\t\t\t\/*\n\t\t\t * Need to set a value for maxHeight to initialize the accordion properly.\n\t\t\t * If we don't include this conditional, the accordion doesn't nicely transition to open\/close on the first click.\n\t\t\t *\/\n\t\t\tif ( 1 == 0 ) {\n\t\t\t\tpanel.style.maxHeight = 0 == 1 ? 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Money was our stressor. Productivity was our hope. Before Butler, I was taught that education is a means to an end. That my value is measured by my output. Now, as a senior preparing to leave this institution, I also leave behind the mystery of who this dream really belongs to: the bourgeoisie who profit off our exhaustion. My peers and I have faced an era of instant access to globalized media via cell phones, a pandemic, an increase in mental health disorders, and political chaos. There is a constant flow of information, a persistent noise that never ceases. I entered college believing that success required unwavering grit and non-stop work. But my liberal arts education\u2014through courses, study abroad, and engagement with Black feminist thought\u2014taught me the power in pause, the value of self-care, and how mindfulness is more than a fad; it\u2019s a form of resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the pandemic hit five years ago, I remember feeling existentially unnerved. For a few weeks, I had zero obligation to my academics, extracurriculars, or work. I played video games with my friends until sunrise. I bonded with my newborn brother. I watered flowers in the greenhouse in my backyard. I had nowhere to be for the first time, and the lull was freeing. But then my dad passed away, and the free time grew to feel lonely. I had no schoolwork to bury my grief. No sports for release. No hug from a friend to relieve the ache. When I arrived at Butler in Fall 2021, I began attending Butler\u2019s Counseling and Consultation Services (CCS), where I confronted my grief. Through CCS, I deepened my self-awareness and developed tools for emotional regulation. Mindfulness became a way to navigate uncertainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three years later, in Fall 2024, I embodied these lessons as I spent six months studying in Sydney, Australia, and for one month of it, I lived in a van with my best mates and road-tripped the east coast. From Bondi Beach to the Great Barrier Reef. We surfed. We laughed. We chased waterfalls and hiked canyons. We arose with the sun; the rays spackled the morning sea with orange as the kangaroo hopped by. The only other time I had felt so free was during my faculty-led Mediterranean Diet &amp; Culture class trip to Florence, Italy. I hand-made pizza at a Tuscan Farm and studied Galileo&#8217;s depiction of the cosmos. The trip was not just about culture but about life\u2014about how engaging in physical movement, investing in relationships, and practicing an unhurried rhythm to life create a holistic sense of well-being. In these moments, I was enriching my own life rather than making someone else richer. Not working toward a goal, just existing. 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I began to see how rest is resistance, and how capitalism\u2019s productivity myth perpetuates people feeling overworked and disconnected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further cementing this idea was my attendance at the National Women&#8217;s Studies Association Conference in Fall 2023 as I listened to the opening keynote conversation between Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw, Paula J. Giddings, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, with special greetings from Angela Y. Davis. Absorbing their words on intersectionality\u2014not as a buzzword, but as a framework describing the layered systems of oppression in our institutions that disproportionately affect Black women\u2014opened my eyes to self-care as a form of self-preservation. 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