Check out last weeks top 10 practical tips. BUT NOW… we have the few not so practical, but a bit more realistic! 10. You will either gain the freshman 15 or lose it because you can’t function as an adult, so embrace it. 9. Take Health Dy as a freshman – or a May term! …
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So. After living a year in a freshman college student’s shoes, I have a few key points to share with you, along with some suggested by friends. And the drumroll please. Practical: 10. Go to orientation events…no matter what. Yeah. We know you don’t want to go on another tour of the campus and we …
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Let’s review the last seven days of my silly college life. Friday, April 13thThe Celebration of Undergraduate Research overtook the Devos Fieldhouse and amazed community members, students and staff by all of the research activity that goes on under our noses here at Hope. There were presentations from nursing to communications to organic chemistry. I …
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Two Friday’s ago, half of the Phage class took to the road to do some TEM work on our mycobacteriophage samples. Having been in the lab a lot and doing computer work, it was fun to get out to a new location with people we have been familiar with all year. It was actually a …
GUESS WHAT. One more month, and my first year of COLLEGE IS OVER! Can you believe that? I’ve come a long way and I’ve done an amazing amount of work and volunteering (well amazing to me, maybe not to you). I just thought I’d leave you with a few other memories from my spring break, …
Being off of school has been fantastic. It’s a short and sweet little taste of what is coming barely a month from now: Summer VACATION!. Although I will be working, volunteering, and still taking two classes, I like the change in pace and variation in activity. So what have I been up too? I arrived …
Wowza. I’m writing to you from Hope’s Pine Grove (the open area of pine trees, I sure hope you knew that). It’s a beautiful day here in Holland with temps around 75 degrees and full sun. The campus is abuzz being that tomorrow is the start of spring break, it’s beautiful outside, and everyone is …
Sometimes I go through these phases where I think that I should go into isolation and focus only on what I want to learn/do/create/etc. In this life I would be secluded to my area of living, venturing out into the world only alone. I could still enjoy the day-to-day activities, but I wouldn’t need relationships, …
It’s midterm week once again, and I feel like I just said it was midterm week of last semester. Time is flying by so fast that most of the time I don’t know what day it is. How do we deal with the stress? I’m sure similar ways you do: biting nails, eating chocolate, cry, …
Winter break is over *sigh*. But, I have great news. Hope’s spring break is just a few days more than four weeks away. Looking for a school with great vacation time? Hope is it. Well, as long as you’re willing to work hard when you actually do have class. What did I spend my time …
