Summer is never too far away when you’re a college student. Anticipation for our future careers spark questions about the three free months we have between spring and fall semesters. For many Hope students, it’s a time to relax, explore new opportunities, or dive deeper into personal growth. Some students hope to spend their summers …
Category Archives: Research
Michigan Rocks! My Experience in Hope’s Day1 Camping Trip
Incoming first-year students don’t imagine spending their first week of college sleeping in tents, climbing rocks, warming by campfires, and road-tripping with thirteen strangers. But Hope College makes this a possibility in its Day1 Michigan Rocks program. Here are the logistics and why I would choose to opt into this all over again. The Logistics …
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Undergraduate Research
The one thing that has dramatically shaped my college trajectory here at Hope College is the SHARP undergraduate research program. After my freshman year of school, I realized I had no idea what I wanted to do post graduation. When enrolling at Hope, I wanted to pursue medicine. However, I realized I no longer wanted …
Summer Research at Hope
This summer, I was blessed with the opportunity to do Global Health research here on campus at Hope. I was in awe, the whole summer long, that I could get paid to do work that I loved so much. In fact, I never imagined I could love working on anything so deeply — it was …
Keeping up with the Coursework
Academics and coursework at Hope College can be overwhelming at times. So much to do and so little time. There can be many doubts: am I going to have enough time? Are my professors going to be helpful? Is there help that I can get? Let me reassure you; you will be okay. Hope College …
Undergraduate Research at Hope College
Among institutions across the nation, Hope College has received recognition and high rankings for the research opportunities that the College offers students. For instance, Hope “is one of only 54 colleges and universities including Yale, Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and Michigan, recognized for providing outstanding undergraduate research/creative project opportunities.” For me, participating in research has bolstered …
My Summer Research Experience
I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I signed myself up for summer research at Hope. I thought it would just be something to put on my resume, but it ended up being so much more. By the time research ended, I found myself with new friends, an app on the …
From Cleaning to Presenting: My Hope College Research Experience
Before coming to Hope, I had the realization that it was going to be hard to be able to gain a lot of experience in research within the Biology field. As an international student from the Philippines, I barely had any research experience and I was not able to either shadow or intern within other …
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Need Me This Summer? I’ll Be in the Lab
Meet Anna Lunderberg. Don’t let the relaxed pose in the hammock fool you. This summer, Anna is hard at work on campus, doing things like studying the brain tissue of rats and running Western blots. (Yeah, I had to Google that, too.) Anna, a soon-to-be sophomore at Hope, is collaborating with biology and chemistry professor …
The First Snow Has Arrived!
The first snow always brings two sentiments to the students. The first one is comforting, because snow makes campus even more beautiful and it creates the true Christmas atmosphere. Especially with all the Christmas lights around campus starting to shine. The second feeling is negative. The first snow is a clear sign of a beginning of a …