5K For The Kids

Happy Tuesday night, folks! I just want to post about my weekend. It really was mundane, I did a bunch of homework, cleaned my room, did some errands and just relaxed. Sometimes, I wish that there was more time in the weekend. We could all use some more time, right? Anyways, the highlight of my …

Attention Hope Students: It’s Tournament Time

Make sure to welkom (Dutch for welcome) back our Hope College Volleyball players this week. After traveling to Illinois over the weekend, they are back on our campus after winning three games in the NCAA tournament. By beating Elmhurst College, Hope Volleyball can now claim the title of Regional Champions. Next Thursday-Saturday, Hope will be …

Location – It Really Does Matter

For those of you who are seniors in high school, it’s almost time for you to make one of the most important decisions in your life. You have spent the last year (or more) researching, traveling, and touring college campuses around the nation. Now, after an intense application process, you are ready to decide where …

Study Spaces

With exams, projects, and papers constantly filling my brain, the past few weeks have consisted of finding the fun, funky, and quiet study spots on and around campus. Although I tried out many different places, here are my top three spaces to work away: For the basic “I want to get out of my room” …

Project Ponytails

You know how advisors, your parents, and other people are always encouraging doing good deeds and volunteering? It certainly can be difficult in college since everybody is so busy. Assignments and other commitments fill up your plate already so it just doesn’t seem feasible to add another activity into the mix. Well, that was how …

Final Days of Sophomore Year

Welp, we are just about done with this school year! Crazy, right? All we have now is finals week and then we’re done until late August. Before everybody gets too excited with summer, there are still some things going on at Hope that are worth mentioning. First of all, Friday was Spring Fling—aka probably one …

Second Semester…Here We Come!

Welcome back! It’s officially 2013 and we made it past the “end of the world” according to the Mayan calendar. During this Christmas break, I was able to truly relax from the stresses of school and brace myself for yet another challenging semester. Even though classes are a bummer, it’s always good to be back …