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Monday, April 16, 2012
First of all, I wanted to say Hi! Hello! I’ve missed you! Sorry about my absence.
Life got in the way of my writing… Within the last few weeks I’ve had to travel back and forth between Kalamazoo and home, but it did spark an idea for some advice. I realized a few things were just dumb to continue to bring with me back and forth all the time. I’ve finally completed this...
Friday, April 13, 2012
Finals are coming soon, then summer, and before you know it, back to school again. When coming back to school, the important question of where to live comes about. Should you live in the dorms? Live in an apartment? Live by yourself?
Many people know where they want to live. Some are content with how they lived this year and plan to room with the same people, while others will change it up...
Monday, April 9, 2012
Okay, we actually didn’t walk; we took a night bus.
This past March, two of my friends and I went on a four day trip to Kyoto, Japan. Kyoto is known as the Old Capital, where many historical buildings from the days of the Samurai reside. The adventure was fantastic, tiring, expensive, and absolutely wonderful.
Let’s meet our cast of characters… There’s me--the hyper and...
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Age: 21
Major: Finance
Minor: Marketing, Economics
Hometown: Addison, MI
Relationship Status: “Single and looking, you can put that down.”
HC: You just won a pretty big election.
Nicholl: I did. The Western Student Association Presidential Election.
HC: What do you plan on doing in the next year as President?
Nicholl: Immediately, I look to get my cabinet appointed so I...
Friday, March 30, 2012
“Eat your way around the world” with this year’s 23rd Aannual Iinternational Ffestival at the Bernhard center was a great time to for students to come get a small taste of what cultures from all over the world have to offer.
The event generally attracts about 2,000 people a year, and highlights 15 different cultures. The ballroom at the Bernhard center was literally packed! With...
Thursday, March 29, 2012
The facts came in a long time ago to confirm what we all suspected: chocolate makes people feel better. It has great positive effects on people’s mood. But now, as if to throw all conventional wisdom out the window, the facts are pointing to a new chocolatey power: making you slimmer.
“In our study, people who ate chocolate more often actually ate more calories,” Beatrice...
Friday, March 23, 2012
LADIES. Let’s get classy here. The past few weeks there has been a girl in one of my classes that thinks it is the best time possible to update her friend on all of her boy problems. I feel like I know everything about her and some guy named Nick.
There is a time and place for everything.
The 10 minutes before Child Abuse is really not the time, nor should your conversation carry...
Friday, March 16, 2012
Jumping into a pool of icy-cold water on an early Saturday morning sounds like the best way to wake up, right?
On March 17, WMU will be holding its fifth Polar Plunge at Lawson Ice Arena, beginning at 11am, to raise money for Special Olympics...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
With the Michigan primaries just behind us, Western Michigan University gears up for a presidential election much closer to home. That election is for the president and vice-president of the Western Student Association. These will be the people the WMU community elects to represent their needs and concerns to university administration, as well as in Lansing and to other universities. The...
