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My time at Wooster has been rather edifying
Looking back on my four years at The College of Wooster, I donít know how exactly I feel about the experiences I have had. In a way, it almost feels as if I just moved into room 216 of the Holden Annex as a first-year. And now, ironically, I am living in room 216 of…
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Money well spent: look, Mom, I learned stuff
The Italian painter Umberto Boccioni was obsessed with capturing movement, perhaps better called ìdynamism,” in static art. The majority of his paintings and sculptures are bold forms depicted either at the height of their momentum or in the various stages of their movement, creating overlapping images and colorful waves that indicate the progress the object…
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Facing the real world at last
The word ìgraduation” often cues bittersweet feelings in seniors during these last few weeks of school. Empathizing while listening to friends verbalize their variety of intense emotions has been easy enough to do over the past three years; but experiencing the end of college firsthand has unexpectedly inspired a similar reaction in me ó one…
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Senior Independent Study should encompass multiple academic disciplines
As my time here at Wooster draws to a close, I have had some time to reflect upon the senior Independent Study process. In theory, one of the best parts about I.S. is that it allows you to draw upon everything youíve ever learned, regardless of subject area, and apply it to whatever you want.…
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Trouble and the Voice: better in a crowd
When I was a first-year living in a program house with the FYLLP program, my housemates and I decided to throw a party. In true first-year fashion, it involved a stack of paper Lowry ketchup cups, two handles of Colonial Club pilfered from some juniorís party a week before and someoneís iTunes blasting the Beatles.…
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Donít ever settle for ëgood enoughí
I recently had the opportunity to meet James Stewart, Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist for The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg professor of business journalism at the Columbia School of Journalism. Acknowledging Americaís current economic crisis, Stewart offered advice to anyone interested in pursuing a career in journalism ó a profession that, as time passes, seems to…
