This semester, I got to do something that every education major looks forward to with a mixture of excitement and dread—I got to create my first bulletin board. It's exciting to get to do a "teacher thing," but also a little scary because the bulletin board carries a significant part of my grade. I had seen so many people before […]
“So, Marissa, what’s on your bucket list?” a friend asked me one day. I laughed. “I don’t do bucket lists. They’re overrated.” “Well, then, is there anything you’ve always wanted to do here at the college?” I paused. Now that my friend mentioned it, I remembered one big thing that I want to do here before I graduate. “Jaffé Strings.” I […]
I'm standing in the Crowne Center during a church service. It comes time to take up the offering, and Pastor McBride leads the church in prayer. It's at this point that I start squirming. I squeeze my eyes shut, determined to not peek. You see, I can hardly stand not knowing what the offertory music is going to be. Sometimes […]
And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. When you look around campus and even inside the Commons and the Crowne Centre, you'll see palm trees planted all over the place. We have the Palms Grille in the Commons, and even our library search system is strategically named PALM (Patron Access to Library Materials). You must be thinking, "Well, you […]
Flowers. We associate them with a date to Fine Arts and dissection in Biology class, but have you ever stopped to look at the flowers planted all around campus? By the residence halls, the Campanile, the median islands, the Commons—flowers are everywhere. Though many of us don't really stop to admire them, think of it this way: flowers are a […]