Blog entries from students having studied abroad.
While my first semester at Wheaton has barely begun, I feel like I’ve met so many people and learned so much about this great campus already. I know I have so many more people to meet and so much more to learn, and I hope that you will continue to help me with this. Everyone […]
Hey everyone! I hope you are all settling in well as we start off the year. I’m pleased to report that your Student Government Association (SGA) Executive Board has been meeting since early August as a group and with administrative officials, such as President Hanno and Dean McCaffrey, about what we wish to accomplish this […]
To say the least, we were all well informed that Chance the Rapper was unable to appear at Wheaton this past Spring Weekend. With his lack of appearance came the slow downward trickle of the hype that surrounded the rapper on campus. The quick replacement of Chance with Chiddy Bang was both impressive and necessary […]
I must say I was little confused when I first spotted the red spray paint scrawled across a column of the gazebo in the number “413.” It looked like the sort of haphazard marking systems used by construction companies to remind you to call before you dig. It was not nearly the caliber of expression that […]
To say the least, we were all well informed that Chance the Rapper was unable to appear at Wheaton this past Spring Weekend. With his lack of appearance came the slow downward trickle of the hype that surrounded the raper on campus. The quick replacement of Chance with Chiddy Bang was both impressive and necessary […]
Young artists, especially musicians and actors/actresses, have begun to exponentially rattle the expectations of quality, artistic content throughout the past few decades by questioning where it must come from. As is constantly relevant in the mainstream music industry, independent skill and originality isn’t exactly the main selling point for many producers. I have heard the […]
This past week, for the Violence Against Women Symposium, I organized a review of the sexual assault and misconduct policy. During our conversations, we began to realize that the sexual assault policy and the Honor Code had something in common: it seemed as though we talked about both at Orientation, and then never again. In […]
I grew up a picky eater, the kind of kid that never strayed too far from the palatable realm of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, string cheese, and applesauce. Over the years my tastes have certainly changed, but one aspect of my diet has remained consistent: my vegetarianism. While I cannot claim that my choice […]
In the late afternoon of Friday, April 4 there was a light sprinkle of rain outside of Haas Athletic Center as friendly faces greeted my teammates and I. Wearing matching blue t-shirts, the Relay for Life 2014 Walk for Cancer committee were so enthusiastic to see Mac Attack in our purple, hand-made shirts from Michael’s, […]
During the weekend of March 29th, I, along with ten other Women’s and Gender Studies majors and Feminist Association of Wheaton (FAW) members, attended the 10th annual National Young Feminist Leadership Conference in Washington D.C. It was a weekend of critiques, empowerment, and more critiques. As an out lesbian and open member of the queer […]