Excited underclassmen looking for internships, panicked upperclassmen looking for jobs and companies ready to offer both these opportunities came together at the career fair in Balfour Hood on Feb. 24. Organized by Career Services in the Filene Center, this fair had 21 diverse organizations come to Wheaton ranging from Aflac, a Fortune 500 financial insurance […]
Author: Andrew Schofield
Decked in black and white, Emerson Dining Hall hosted the Class of 2020 dinner. On Feb. 26, the roaring twenties themed dinner served a wide-ranging menu, from thick cheese pastas, assorted vegetables, steaming garlic bread, buffalo chicken wings, to the dessert menu of chocolate and vanilla cupcakes and a bejeweled black and white sheet cake. […]
Looking back at my time in high school, one student in a sea of over 2,000, I can say with confidence that it was nothing like college. The whole point of high school, I argue, is to teach young people how to follow rules and schedules which are handed to them. An itinerary they have […]
“America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!” Since the dawn of time, migration has been a part of humanity; we conquer, discover or quite simply survive. Regardless of where we’re from, we are products of migration – from across the world, an ocean […]
This past year in major professional sports championships consisted of historic comebacks, drought-ending miracles and closely contested games. The overall oddity of the 2016-2017 year in sports championships included the Cleveland Cavaliers ending the city’s 52-year title drought, the Chicago Cubs ending its 108-year baseball title drought and the New England Patriots completing the largest […]
Wheaton’s Swimming and Diving Teams had huge success at the NEWMAC meet with many swimmers clocking in at personal best times. Jenna Hayden ’18 was named the NEWMAC swimmer of the year, the team’s head coach Barrett Roberts ’07 was named NEWMAC coach of the year and the men’s team collectively had a fourth place […]
As defined by Mary Truong, the director of the Office of Refugees and Immigrants in Massachusetts, a refugee is someone who is fleeing in fear of persecution because of their nationality, religion, as well as many other possible reasons, and is escaping to a new country for protection. On Feb. 24, 2017, Wheaton College had […]
SGA President-Elect Mary Sasso ’18, Vice President-Elect Sam Mahler ’19, Secretary-Elect Colleen Sedney ’20 and Treasurer-Elect Shamar Mahon ’20 among around 45 others benefited from a record-breaking turnout this election cycle last Friday. 45.5% of Wheaton’s student body voted on Thursday and Friday, surpassing last year’s high of 33%. The national average of student body […]
During the autumn semester of 2016, I studied abroad in Granada, Spain for three and a half months. It was such a pleasant and wonderful experience that I do not regret the difficult process I had to go through to ensure a successful journey. I had already visited Barcelona and Madrid prior to this, but […]
This past month I have completed finals, completed midterms, caught a 3-week flu and moved back to America. Somehow despite all this I am still here, alive and kicking, at Wheaton. That’s right folks, I’m back in the good ol’ USA, home to Trump-Daitoryo as they would say back at my old university. Last semester […]