What makes a place feel like home? It’s 5:00PM and as I walk out of the Alumni Office at Hope College, I’m rushing to get to my 5:15PM workout class. There’s construction, so I know I’ll have to take a few back roads. My mind is on auto-pilot while driving and once I arrive at my gym, …
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Rockets and Music and Travel…Oh My!
Hello again! As I mentioned in my previous post, I was given the opportunity to travel to the NASA White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico as a part of my internship with Jacobs Engineering. I have been working on a project to design a rocket test stand as a part of the …
My Summer Experience at Mason Street Warehouse
This summer I have the exciting honor to be working at Saugatuck’s Center for the Arts as a spotlight operator for their theatre, Mason Street Warehouse. Mason Street just closed the show Million Dollar Quartet with record ticket sales and we can look forward to their upcoming shows Murder for Two (July 22 through August 7) and The Great American …
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Summer Send Off: Then and Now
Rewind to July of 2014. As an incoming first-year student at Hope College, I was a ball of nerves and excitement. Being the type of person that needs planning and order, not knowing what was to come when I stepped onto campus in the fall was a rattling concept. Thankfully, Hope College does a picnic called …
At the Breakneck Pace of Life
Well it has been a LONG time since I’ve posted…but I promise I can explain. In the past two months I have… Raced a triathlon SURVIVED FINALS (finishing my Junior year at Hope) Participated in the Formula SAE competition at the Michigan International Speedway Started work at Jacobs Engineering – Technology Group in Tullahoma, Tennessee …
Share Your Hope Experience at Summer Send Offs
Each summer Hope alumni, students and parents meet members of the incoming class and their families at a series of welcome events. You are invited to help welcome the Class of 2020! Connect with Hope alumni, parents and students at a Summer Send Off event near your and share your Hope experience with students just …
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Summer in South Dakota
Hello again. This month I write to everyone from the gorgeous plains of South Dakota. Instead of taking the month of May off, this year I ventured to the Rosebud Native American reservation. I am about half way done with my trip and I do not want it to end! Throughout this month I have …
Can I Please get a T-Shirt ?
Hope College Intramurals; the one place an amateur can feel like a world class professional athlete. I always prefer playing Co-Ed Soccer not because of the girls, but because it makes most of the guys be more gentleman-like. Lets be honest, no dude enjoys looking like a jerk in front of girls. This season, I …
Cook Hall, Best Hall
“The quiet, anti-social dorm? You want to live there?” These reactions were all too familiar just a year ago this time after room draw. And rest assured, Cook Hall is no longer considered a quiet dorm after this past year. With our best friends living on the third floor, this residence hall became family. The pranks …
Dear Graduation…
Graduation, please take your time. As much as we are trying to ignore the looming event, it’s still coming. ‘G’ Day, as students have nicknamed it, is coming too quickly. The seniors in the Delta Phi sorority have become some of my very best friends. When I joined the sorority as a freshman, I never thought these …