A de-stressing downpour By Allison Giroux Even after a single mention of finals, groans and sighs from stressed out students can be heard echoing across campus. To put it bluntly, finals can downright stink. It’s easy to become overwhelmed by a nasty combination of stress, lack of sleep, unhealthy and/or irregular eating, and the knowledge […]
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“A de-stressing downpour”
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2015 | Comments Off on “A de-stressing downpour”
“Be-U-tiful UHeights: Life in the Honors College Residence Hall”
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2015 | Comments Off on “Be-U-tiful UHeights: Life in the Honors College Residence Hall”
Be-U-tiful UHeights: Life in the Honors College Residence Hall by SaraJane Harrington ‘17 Animal Sciences Being in the Honors College has many benefits like registering for classes early, taking small seminars with world-class professors, and having access to a host of academic opportunities. But one of the greatest perks of all is where HCOL calls […]
“How to Get Funding to Read The Hunger Games”
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2015 | Comments Off on “How to Get Funding to Read The Hunger Games”
How to Get Funding to Read The Hunger Games by Audrey Kreiser ’17 Secondary English Education I applied for a summer research grant at the suggestion of one of my Honors College professors. My final for Professor Andrew Barnaby’s “Art of Literary Adaptation” class was an adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes story featuring a female […]
“Gender, Raves, and the Space of Muffins”
Posted in Uncategorized on March 24, 2015 | Comments Off on “Gender, Raves, and the Space of Muffins”
“Gender, Raves, and the Space of Muffins” By: Audrey Kreiser Even after taking a class called The Pursuit of Knowledge my first semester in the Honors College, registering for a spring class called Gender and the Space of Knowing still seemed pretty daunting. “What could ‘the space of knowing’ even mean?” I remember asking my […]
The True Rewards of Being in the Honors College
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2015 | Comments Off on The True Rewards of Being in the Honors College
“The True Rewards of Being in the Honors College” By: Caroline Pisinski There are certain perks to being in the Honors College that are—figuratively and literally–concrete. Most people coming into the college are told about the multitude of academic benefits and the residence hall. The Honors College res hall, University Heights North, is one of […]
“What’s All This Talk About Research?”
Posted in Uncategorized on January 27, 2015 | Comments Off on “What’s All This Talk About Research?”
“What’s All This Talk About Research?” By: Allison Giroux The first time I heard about the importance of getting involved in research was during The Honors College portion of the Admitted Student Visit Day that I attended, and I haven’t stopped hearing about it since. I like to think of it as an HCOL […]