Hello Freshmen! Welcome to your first year at what may be the best school in the world: UW-Madison. Now, we all get how you are feeling: excited, nervous, stressed or a combination of all three. But we badgers have a fantastic way to relieve those pre-college jitters or school stress attacks all students get: laughter! I Read More…
Category: Unit 2
The Motivational Fitness Club Every Girl Needs
As most of you know, the SERF (Southeast Recreational Facility) is closing down for renovations for the next couple of years. This is a pretty big deal for freshman in the southeast dorms, such as Sellery and Witte. College is a huge change and it can be scary! There can be times when you’re going Read More…
Four Fun and Free Places to Visit for a Study Break
Everybody is always saying how hard freshman year of college is, how different it is from high school, how broke you will feel and how stressed you will be. All of these things are true, but nobody ever really tells you how to deal with all of this new stress. On the University of Wisconsin-Madison Read More…
The F Words
Faith and Friends. As an incoming freshman, these are two areas of life that will change quite a bit beginning the moment you first step onto Campus. The Badger Cru organization provides avenues to tackle both of those concepts. Let’s look at faith first. As most people go through life they come to have Read More…
Food with a View: The Edgewater
Are you looking for a break from dorm food? Want to impress a date without breaking the bank? Or maybe you’re planning what restaurant to take your family when they come and visit in the fall. Well…Look no further than The Edgewater.
Engage politically at UW-Madison!
When entering a school as large as UW-Madison, new students may have a hard time finding a community of likeminded individuals. Luckily, our school hosts quite a few student run political organizations, which are curated by the university. For many students, these groups serve primarily as a place to meet new people of similar mindsets. Read More…
Silly Yak Bakery
Recently, there have been an increased amount of trendy diets that remove or even reduce your gluten consumption while other individuals have been diagnosed with Celiac Disease. Celiac Disease means your body cannot process any forms of gluten; resulting in extreme discomfort, illness and even death if gone untreated. Several students on campus suffer from Read More…
Have a “smashing” weekend!
Are you a Smash Bros. fan? Want to have fun on the weekend and meet new people? Given that you are a college student, you will most likely answer “yes” to the second question at a minimum. If you are a fellow smasher however, you should know that fairly regular Smash. Bros tournaments are held Read More…
Your Guide to the Dane County Farmer’s Market
From the middle of April until the beginning of November, Madison’s very own farmer’s market is a Saturday morning staple. Get your friends up and out of bed and take a walk on over! There’s nothing better than waking up early on a Saturday morning and walking down a sun-filled State Street toward downtown Madison Read More…
5 Ways to Avoid the “Freshman 15”
As an upperclassmen who has previously experienced the Freshman 15, I can concur that it is in fact real. Not real in the way that all freshman gain weight, but real in that the weight gained freshman year by most students is exactly the number 15. Shaving those pounds off becomes even harder when you Read More…