By: Julie Oosterink ’13 50 is the maximum number of books a student can check out from Van Wylen Library. I know this because I hit that number on more than one occasion during my time at Hope. As a student of English and history, I always juggled a few research papers or projects and …
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Novels: How I Discovered I was on the Right Career Path
By Lauren Marchany ’17 Majoring in English allows for a wide variety of career choices. My goal is to be an editor for a publishing house. The class that I found has been the most helpful to reaching this goal is Creative Writing: Novels with Dr. Elizabeth Trembley. When registration rolled around near the end …
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Faculty Writing Camp Reflections
By Regan Postma-Montaño This past June I joined eight other faculty (including Marla Lunderberg and Kendra Parker from the English Department) for my first ever Faculty Writing Camp. Much like the time spent at Northern Michigan summer camps during my youth, this camp offered me the blessings of community and growth, along with good snacks and walks in nature, …
Why English 113 Is a Must
By: Trevor Sooy, ‘19 Most students coming to Hope College are required to take a semester of English. Like me, they may have thought, “I thought this was the time to study what I’m interested in and get as far away from writing lengthy papers on material that means next to nothing for me.” This …
For my Fellow Writers: How to Stay Motivated during the Summer
By: Katie McMorris ’17 If you’re anything like me, your first month or so of summer probably included the following: sleeping, eating, Netflix, then back again to sleeping. After spending the last two semesters constantly producing new material, you deserve a break; however, sometimes that break seems to last until the end of August. For …
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Adventures in Liverpool
By: Professor Bill Moreau I am 40,000 feet above the Atlantic as I write this—aboard American Airlines flight #55 from Manchester, England, to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Professor Tony Donk and I are returning from a June Term in Liverpool with the Education Department. Our twelve students and the two of us are exhausted but elated with a very …
7 Things: Some Advice
By Sarah Baar Though I am not really an expert at anything, I have general knowledge about many things. Sometimes I like to give advice. Take it or leave it. Start saving for retirement immediately. Experts estimate that you’ll double your investment return if you start saving at 25 instead of 35. Most companies offer …
Winner of the Stephenson First-Year Writing Prize
Hope College has a plethora of awards given out to students on a regular basis. The English Department alone has the honor of awarding students over ten different types of honors and prizes for showing exemplary skills in literature and creative writing. One of the awards we recently gave was the “Stephenson First-Year Writing Prize.” …
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A Letter to Hope College Prospective Students
Dear Prospective Hope College Students, First of all I want to wish you all luck on your college searches. Having been through it myself, I understand the time and effort that goes into finding the perfect college. That being said, there is no question that on the next level—the collegiate level—the stakes are higher. In …
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What Makes An Effective Educator?
By Bryant Russ, ‘11 Floating around somewhere in the back of my mind was the idea that a good teacher has to be young, hip, and in touch with teenage slang and references to Justin Bieber songs. You know, to relate and stuff. And then I enrolled in British Literature. All it took was a …