by Sara Paulsen in Viewpoint
It always seems to happen on the most inconvenient of days. It's the day after your 21st birthday. It's the day after you spent the whole night crying because your boyfriend dumped you. It's the day after your computer decided to die. It's the morning after the boys who live above you stayed up all night playing basketball in their room.
by Greg Sebastiao in Viewpoint
More and more lately I've been feeling clueless-clueless about my future. Though most of the time in my life I've always been the one to take the pessimistic approach to things, the only thing I thought that I was truly optimistic about in my life was getting a job in the "real world" no problem.
by Hannah Brencher in Viewpoint
I once heard the story of a boy who was in a concentration camp in Poland during World War II. One day he was sitting by the barbed wire fences and a young girl approached him from the other side of the fence. The side that was freedom. She asked the boy if he was hungry and proceeded to throw an apple over the fence to the starving boy.
by Hannah Brencher in Viewpoint
Come midnight on Thanksgiving, people everywhere will be hurling themselves into the holiday season, filling up carts and swiping credit cards for loved ones and friends. The holiday season; it is all about giving to the ones that we care about, right? Well what if we had the chance to do this while giving back? Here you have it, ten gift ideas that are both practical but promoting of a cause.
by Dr. Fred Bauer in Viewpoint
Einstein called naive realism "a bourgeois illusion." (Essay #5). Why, then, do we begin our learning careers as naive realists, believing we sense the physical world rather than 'mental representations' (Pinker)? Atheists who believe that science makes belief in God obsolete have no answer for that question.
by Hannah Brencher in Viewpoint
It could not fit beneath a cardboard box tented up as a home for the night. It could not fit alongside the breaths we took, seeing each and every exhale in the cold air. It could not fit in between our words, as we talked about how it felt to sit idly, hungry and tired.
by Robert Tyler in Viewpoint
So here we are: the end of November. It seems as if only a few weeks have gone by since the overcast morning of August 20, when I packed my Honda Civic over capacity and moved back to Assumption for Student Leadership Training. Training was awesome, the food was free and the weather was beautiful.
by Kristin Geyer in Viewpoint
What are you thankful for? We've heard this question as long as we can remember around this time of the year, but a lot of times we instead tend to think of all the missing pieces in our lives. I'm thankful for my family, but I can't help but to notice the missing spot at the head of table where my Mema once sat.
