It is hard to believe that another week has already passed since the last time I sat down to write. Time is starting to fly. Somehow, this marks the end of my fourth week in India. A quarter of my time abroad is over. On Facebook, I see pictures of the...

When I meet other Grand Valley State University students for the first time, we exchange the usual college pleasantries and inquires, such as "Where are you from? What’s your major? Where did you go to high school?" To this last question, I always answer...

Do you happen to know someone who takes a boatload of credits hoping to get ahead of the game only to become stressed out down the road, maybe even having to drop classes? Why is that? Isn’t taking more credits a good thing? I mean, it might help them...

Grand Valley State University, a liberal arts university, is notorious for having a conservative attitude. Some of this is due to the location of the university, some of it is due to the lack of diversity in GVSU's student population. Whatever the reason,...

This past week, I did something which I normally try to avoid doing (although, let’s be honest, sometimes it’s necessary): I walked across campus alone in the dark. In this case, my solitary evening amble was inevitable. I had attended a meeting and...

Immigration has become the topic everybody's talking about. During my international relations class a few weeks ago, one of the topics of discussion was immigration and its consequences. It was interesting to listen to everybody’s opinion about the...

Flu season is almost upon us, and so is the statewide vaccination competition. Grand Valley State University is one of the colleges participating, with the hope that the university can vaccinate the most number of people.People in the GVSU community can,...

ArtPrize is here again! For those of you who are unaware of what ArtPrize is, it’s an event that takes place for two and a half weeks in downtown Grand Rapids and features numerous forms of art within three square miles of the city. According to the...

As we get settled into the house, I try to remind myself that this is home for the next three months. It still seems surreal that I am in India. It does not feel as if this is where I will spend an eighth of my undergraduate college career. I wake up...

Before coming to college, I never had a laptop. I bought one my freshman year and quickly realized how essential it was. There are ways to get by without a laptop at college- a.k.a. living at the library- but there are limited computers and limited hours....