You guys, there are few things I love more than fall at Hope. The sunsets are ridiculous. The trees are so beautiful that I actually get sad when the leaves fall off of them. Temperatures, while often unpredictable, are generally pretty nice. And the apples. Oh, the apples. I’m an apples and peanut butter kind …
Author Archives: Kathryn Krieger
How to Survive Midterms
Midterms are in full swing at Hope this week, and they’ve made this week really, really busy. Not only does it seem like every professor makes 58 extra things due this week, but half-semester classes end with big exams, new half-semester classes start with unfamiliar professors and workloads, seniors are taking the GRE and applying to grad …
Off-Campus Homework
At first, the times I am off-campus sound like the worst times to do homework. Times off-campus should be spent exploring or having fun or drinking really good coffee, I tell myself. However, throughout the past year, I have found that sometimes getting off-campus is just what I need to get motivated to get my …
Questions
My mom would probably disagree with this, but I do not feel like I have ever been a super-inquisitive person. I have a tendency to take most things at face value. I will think about things and make up my mind about whether or not I agree with them, but I have just never been …
College Students Are Zoo Animals
This weekend over Fall Break I had the pleasure of spending a few hours at Lincoln Park Zoo. I hadn’t been there since my elementary school went on a field trip circa 2002. I actually remembered a few things about my last visit while I walked through the zoo, so it was cool to have those memories …
Fun, Money Making, and Camp Away From Camp
One thing I’ve come to both admit about myself and appreciate about myself over the past year or so is that I was made to make stuff. I was super into drawing and arts and crafts when I was little. Shrinky-Dinks were my JAM. I had a little mini potter’s wheel at my house. I …
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A Sunday Night Adventure
Sundays can be kind of weird. I always start out the day with going to Pillar Church, eating lunch and then… Well, most weeks, the rest of my day is consumed by homework. Every other week I also get to help lead at our Sunday night worship service, the Gathering, so I am at the …
Making the Most of the Mornings
For the past two years, I’ve definitely been someone who rolls out of bed as late as possible before my first obligation of the day. I usually worked as hard as I could to stay in my bed for as long as I could. A lot of times, this was the product of staying up …
Running in Holland
Do you like to run? Here is a haiku containing my answer to that question: Running is fun but It’s literally the worst How’s that possible? I ran cross country and track in high school, and so did my parents and my older brothers and my uncles (one of my uncles was actually my coach!), …
Perks of Cottage Life
School is back in session and I am deep into my academic life that consists of books, books, and more books. Being a Religion major is sweet because you get to read tons of books, but also you have to read tons of books at times when perhaps you would rather be at the beach or …