Blog entries from students having studied abroad.
Anyone who eats at Chase – practically the entire campus – passes by this giant, interactive screen daily, a majority of us disregarding it without a second thought. Facing the main entrance head on, this board holds a lot of information regarding the school’s efforts to improve the campus’ carbon footprint; efforts that often go […]
Former Speaker of the House, Tip O’Neill, is best known in our time for his adage that “All Politics is Local.” The statement itself is quite simple, but carries with it a call to action and a statement on the nature of the ‘local.’ It is quite easy to get caught up in the grand […]
As finals season comes into full swing, all are beginning to feel the stress. Be it a final paper, quiz or presentation, college has a funny way of making everything due within the same small frame of time. As deadlines come closer and closer, there is a need to push everything back to the latest […]
I love going home for Thanksgiving break. However, there is one thing I always dread when going home for Thanksgiving break: the many hours that will be spent watching Modern Family, a family favorite. Modern Family, for those who have never heard of it, is a family-friendly sitcom about an extended family. The show has […]
Students on campus may have heard that Wheaton is in the middle of reviewing their curriculum. Meaning some of the requirements may be done away with, or, at the very least, changed to fit a new academic goal. I have found two overarching issues with the curriculum as it stands: connections and foundations. It’s easy […]
I have spent every day since election night writing, deleting, and then re-writing this article, as I have attempted to determine what the proper takeaway from 2018 politics was. There is very little unity even within the Democratic Party about what narrative we sell, and what game-plan we run for 2020 (Believe me, the invisible […]
One of the foundational myths of the United States is that to be a citizen is to be counted by the State. The truth is that the only formal way the population is counted is through the census that is conducted every 10 years. The census always represents in some part the biases expressed by […]
In light of Wheaton’s current curriculum review, I’d like to offer an alternative to our current class structure by advocating the incorporation of the tutorial system. 36 essays. 36 tutorials. 24 weeks. This brief list most succinctly summarizes my academic year studying abroad at Mansfield College, part of the University of Oxford in England. As […]
“I would like to speak briefly and simply about a national condition. It is a national feeling of fear and frustration of everything that we Americans hold dear. It is a condition that comes from the lack of effective leadership either in the legislative or executive branch of our government.” On June 1, 1950, Senator […]
It is one of my sincerest wishes that as a Jew, I don’t have to have an opinion on Israel. After all, I ascribe to the belief that the State of Israel does not speak for my identity nor do policies that are enacted on another continent shape how I navigate in my own country. […]