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Education System Ranking

Education system can be a hard problem to discuss because of various components taken into consideration. Each country’s beliefs and/or the states inside one countries are . Some countries and states have their own perspective and believe on where the budget should...

Remy and the Search for Happiness, part 2: travel (cont’d)

After my tour of the Highlands, I returned to Edinburgh for a couple of days and saw more Fringe shows before hopping on a plane to Belfast. Years of traveling with my family and in American airports have made me paranoid about missing flights and gotten me in the...

Neuroscience Makes You Nicer

“New neuroscience will undermine people’s common sense, libertarian conception of free will and the retributivist thinking that depends on it, both of which have heretofore been shielded by the inaccessibility of sophisticated thinking about the mind and its neural...

Giving up Coffee

As I mentioned in our last class for PLA, I have started to give up my beloved drink of coffee. While it was not a choice that was intended for good health, rather for the success of my research. I am currently using my own white blood cells to conduct my research,...

Turning your brain off?

I just finished up with a phenomenal homecoming weekend. My dad and brother both came into State College for their first football weekend since I’ve been a Penn Stater. With the exception of our performance at the game, every part of the weekend was a great...

Iraq Today

The United States public is tired of having to deal with problems in the Middle East, and a fight with ISIS is not popular with the public. We can speculate about who is to blame for the current situation, and what responsibility America has in Syria and Iraq, but the...

Ethics Explained by Frank Underwood

Week two of policy paper discussion and my group lost a few members, picked up some new ones, and discussed everything from creating ways for lower economic classes to access higher quality foods to the fashion world’s use of sexual appeal in advertising. Fortunately...

Rising above Adversity

After coming off of a winning weekend I am so proud of our Penn State Women’s Soccer Team and the amount of adversity we overcame these past two weeks. playing 4 games in just 10 days takes a large toll on your body physically and mentally and we were able to...

Manners Won’t Change

“Unlike fashion, the styles of dining etiquette are the same, season to season and year after year.” While we eat each meal, there are several different ways of going about it. It is extremely important to learn how to properly hold your fork, how to place your napkin...

Time Management: Is It Possible?

As Junior year takes over, and one week has turned into one month, it really feels as if it has already been a year despite what time tells me. Now that I am officially in my major, the test begins. Last year we only ever had one project at a time and usually an...