Photo by Bruna Pacheco The cold weather is finally here and midterm grades are out, which means many students around campus are focusing on one thing: the end of fall semester. With only four more weeks until finals, not a lot of motivation is circulating around campus. Everyone is […]
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Student Life as a Retired Athlete
Photo by Bruna Pacheco Many kids begin playing a sport in middle school, others in high school, but just a small number continue playing at college level. The truth is, it’s really hard to play a sport in college. But congrats to those who do – they’re performing at the […]
Getting in the Spirit: Top Ways to Celebrate the Holidays
Photo from www.pixabay.com With the Halloween season coming to an end, Thanksgiving right around the corner and Christmas just over a month away, fall will soon be over and winter will be in full swing. With winter come different activities to get you into the spirit: gingerbread houses, hot chocolate […]
Fall Photo Showcase
Oh, autumn. How easy it is to fall (ha, get it?) in love with your transitory nature, the changing leaves, the brisk air. There are many things that represent the different aspects of your wonderful existence, and I did my very best to capture these images. Nothing, though, can quite […]
Geoff Poston: Inductee for Kansas State Hall of Fame
Photo by Bruna Pacheco For more than 30 years, Geoff Poston has been bowling. Poston has been involved as, not only a competitor in leagues, tournaments and professionally, but as a coach as well. He’s been instructing athletes for more than 15 years. “I started out about 20 years ago […]
International Driving Tips
Photo by Florence Sesham Americans are weird. We use an entirely different (and more complicated) metric system than the rest of the world, we write our dates backwards—with the month first instead of the day, and we refrigerate our eggs. Other countries don’t do that. However, one of the most […]
Off-Campus Living
Photo by Bruna Pacheco Ottawa University has expanded its enrollment in recent years and on-campus housing has become increasingly crowded. Ottawa students have even been forced to take up residence in hotels away from the campus. Living off-campus on your own as a student provides a luxury and peace of […]
Mid-College Crisis
Photo by Nicole Pierick Congratulations. You just enrolled in classes for your senior year. Where did the last two and a half years go? You thought graduating early would be a great idea, that you would be able to start your life and enter the “real world.” Suddenly, you start […]
State-by-State Weather Update
Photo from https://pixabay.com For students from Kansas, it’s nothing new to wake up in 30-degree temperature, put on sweats and hoodies, then come out of class at two o’clock, greeted by 75-degree weather. It is just a part of what most people would call the “bipolar Kansas weather.” However, for those […]
Challenge Accepted: NaNoWriMo Begins
Photo by Alaina Burris Have you ever dreamed of being a writer? Have you ever written short stories? Stories without an ending? Do you know what to do with any of the stories that you’ve written? Are you not really a writer at all but are up for a challenge? […]