by Ramya Gurunathan | Mar 31, 2016
Last week I got the chance to tour GardenGenetics, a plant breeding start-up company in Bellefonte. GardenGenetics specializes in growing ornamental flowers and vegetables… they’re VERY proud of their wavy petunias and decorative kale. Before the tour, the executives...
by Tessa Sontheimer | Mar 31, 2016
This week I had the opportunity to hear Eve Ensler speak about her global feminist work as part of Sexual Violence Awareness Week. Eve Ensler is an activist and playwright that created “The Vagina Monologues” and more recently One Billion Rising, a program that...
by Brenna Fisher | Mar 30, 2016
While we all love the PLA, there are definitely some parts about it that can cause us stress. When you get to the networking brunch after your interview 2. When you meet your class on orientation day 3. When kids talk about what they did over the...
by Esther J. Park | Mar 28, 2016
It is that time of the year when the work for the thesis starts picking up. For my honors thesis, I chose to explore advertising of beauty brands and how it contributes to the idealized beauty norm. Beauty, while considered subjective and dependent on the eye of the...
by William Clair Ferguson | Mar 28, 2016
We always expect other people to take a chance on us. Why won’t they just let me prove myself? This is a thought that would constantly run throughout my mind over the last couple of months. I realized as I was finding my passion and the work I wanted to be doing...
by Jasmine Bowen | Mar 28, 2016
I spent a lot of time yesterday trying to write my blog. Nothing came of it but a list of ideas and, ultimately, a blank post. I decided to forget about it and try again this morning. It was actually last night, when I stopped trying to find an idea, that I got the...
by Asia Grant | Mar 28, 2016
I have been reading the book “7 Habits for Highly Effective People” because I have recently found myself struggling to find out what direction I would like to go for this summer and where I can make meaningful change. So why not try to make meaning change...
by Isabella Frances Teti | Mar 28, 2016
When something as terrible and emotional occurs, such as the attacks in Brussels last Tuesday, it’s easy to overlook long term implications and just focus on the ongoing tragedy. But doing so ultimately allows these subtle but pivotal effects to go unchecked,...
by Kyle Rutter | Mar 28, 2016
So I just had my ROTC drug test for the semester and every semester it took way longer than it should to complete. Most of the cadets have thought of many ways to make the system more efficient and it upsets us we have to spend so long on this event. Most of us...
by Brad Fratangelo | Mar 28, 2016
This morning, our battalion held a urinalysis for all of the contracted (those who are essentially guaranteed to commission upon graduation) underclassmen; freshmen through juniors. All seniors and non-contracted underclassmen were subsequently excused from physical...
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