If your high school was like mine, you probably celebrated Homecoming Week each fall, a week full of fun events for students and alumni and culminating in a football game. You may not know it, but Homecoming Week doesn’t stop in high school, and participating in Homecoming events at Wisconsin is a great way to Read More…
Category: Unit 2
There is a leader in all of us
While I didn’t experience my freshman year at Wisconsin, I do know what it feels like to be in a new community with unfamiliar faces and overwhelmed with all the different organizations to choose from. As a transfer student, I had to experience the feelings, doubts, and uncertainties of freshman year all over again. The Read More…
Where and how to (occasionally) escape the craziness of college life
College is fun. There’s always something going on, and, especially in a dorm, you’ve always got fun people to talk to. The only downside is that all this can sometimes get a little bit overwhelming, and if you’re rooming with someone else, it can be difficult to find space to be alone and away from Read More…
Can’t Live Without It: 3 Reasons You Need The Perfect Dorm Room Tapestry
I spent the summer before my freshman year at UW daydreaming about how I would decorate my dorm room. I planned out all the photos I would print, bought string lights to hang from wall to wall, and hunted endlessly for the cutest bedding. However, what I didn’t know I needed was the perfect tapestry! Read More…
The 3 Best Spots to Study in Sellery
Sellery (and Witte) Residence Hall certainly has its reputation for buzzing with social activity around the clock. While in my experience this proved to be true, I also found several great spaces to get some studying done within the walls of Sellery! 1. Your Floor’s Den I would say this is the best place to Read More…
What’s an Introvert with FOMO Supposed to Do on Spring Break?
Spring Break, legendary for sand, sun, and fun. But what if you don’t have $1,000 to drop on a trip to Florida or Mexico? Or if you really just don’t want to spend hours on the beach surrounded by hot, sweaty, drunk people, but also don’t want to actually tell your friends that you spent Read More…
From Child to Adult Real Quick!
After Freshman year, I can safely say that I have “adulted.” I have been on my own for the first time in my life, which has not caused me difficulty but confidence. To incoming Freshman, you may think that this time where you “adult” never comes. It happens to the best and the worst of Read More…
Become a Stand-Up Adult Citizen with this One Step
Me? I’m a rising senior that transferred to UW from a small college in OR my sophomore year, now paying bills with my own checkbook. You? A rising freshman with very little “adulting” experience, about to begin living in the “real world”. Take a breath! If there’s anything I’ve learned about being a college student, Read More…
Sleeping in a Igloo
under northenr lights and the starts Introduction For winterbreak I suggest to go to lap land which is in way up north in finland. The climate is like alaska but it is flat. Finnish people that Sanat claus lives there aswell. The cool thing about lapland is that you can go to a hotel that Read More…
Beauty is Pain(less)
Adjusting to a new city can be intimidating especially when you have your girl at home who always cuts your hair, or that salon down the street that knows your nails better than you do. However, the perks of going to a city school is that you have plenty of options to choose from. Here Read More…