Thursday, May 12, 2011, at 11:03 pm
Yours truly reading Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" down by the Genesee river
It is my great pleasure to announce the completion of my junior year at Houghton. It’s been a great year and I hope you have enjoyed my somewhat less than consistent posting. This summer I am very excited as I will be starting an internship at the Acadia Psychiatric hospital in Bangor, Maine. This is a part of my Applied/Pre-Therapy track of my Psychology major. It should be awesome. If you’re interested in hearing more about my summer experiences, or college experiences for that matter, check out my personal blog
here.
I am looking forward to my final year at Houghton.
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Sunday, April 10, 2011, at 3:58 pm
My fiance and I at the International Banquet! Jenny wearing a Sari from India and myself in Estonian national garb. (Photo courtesy of Anya Jones)
Okay, okay, I’m late. Sorry about this. But I’m going to go back in time about a month (March 12th to be exact) and tell you about one of the best nights of the year!
The International Banquet is an annual tradition that I have had the great pleasure of enjoying for the past three years. About 10% of Houghton students are internationals/TCKs and this event, put on by the Intercultural Student Association (ISA), is a chance to celebrate the world and for all of us to show off …
Thursday, March 17, 2011, at 12:11 am
Today was the most wonderful of days during the semester: H.E.L.P. day! H.E.L.P. day is a spring semester tradition that always brightens my day. On H.E.L.P. day each spring classes are canceled all day and the day is devoted to meeting with advisors, catching up on work, or just getting a chance to sleep in. This time for the first time during H.E.L.P. day there were helpful info sessions about different things. There were a bunch offered, but I went to four sessions.
First I went to a session called “What difference does it make being a Christian and an artist?” which was a lecture given by professor Ted Murphy, an art professor and also the one who …
Friday, February 25, 2011, at 3:55 am
Coming towards the end of my junior year and realizing that I only have one year left to my Houghton education has made me slightly introspective. Well, that and the fact that I’m writing a memoir for my extended narrative class. I remember back in the crazy days of college searching when I didn’t have any idea what I was looking for. It was then that I decided that not having anything to look for was, in itself, something to look for. In short, I needed a purpose.
As I waded through the flood of college brochures, probably enough to kill a small forest, I saw a lot that interested me. Some schools had cool sounding academic programs …
Monday, January 24, 2011, at 12:59 am
Well, Spring 2011 is well underway and so far my classes are awesome! Tomorrow starts my third week and I am loving how things are going. The comic I have shared with you is in reference to my poetry class. I am a writing major but poetry has never been my strength, which is exactly why I chose it. I like to think that when I graduate from Houghton I will be a well rounded writer and be able to write poetry, prose, and fiction. I started out before Houghton as primarily a prose writer because of my blogging but during my sophomore year I took several fiction based classes and have at least learned how to …
