Holiday “Grill”

Students often face the holiday break with a degree of trepidation. As well as the usual home cooking, free laundry and other benefits of spending time with family, you are often faced with various friends and relatives who want to reassure themselves that you are doing well. They’ll ask about your progress in school and/or career plans. This is usually done in the spirit of caring about you and wanting you to be happy and successful, but sometimes the timing is just plain poor.

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Rivalries of Epic Proportions

Escape From IV: Extreme Edition

Let’s talk about the football. As you probably know, soccer — or as the rest of the world more logically calls it, football — is the biggest sport in the world outside of the United States. The passion for it varies between countries. In South Africa, for example, it is one of several sports that dominate the country. Compare this with England and Scotland, where the world’s best players come to compete in the two top tier leagues of Britain, the English and Scottish Premier Leagues.

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Finding Your Road

Trying to choose a major? Choose the answers that best describe you:

1. I enjoy learning most when I’m

a. working in a lab or in the field gathering data and conducting experiments.

b. reading articles and books related to my field of interest and writing about my own ideas.

c. practicing and refining my creative and artistic talents.

d. working through mathematical equations, problem sets, and other types of logic problems.
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