A Fifth Year’s Guide to Pooping on Campus By JENNIFER HA The Augustana Advantage includes small class sizes, personal relationships with your professors, and a liberal arts curriculum that develops your core skills. It does not, however, include the open concept bathrooms that plague our architecture. When we say your professors get to know you… Read More The Toilet Tours
Being a Part of Reconciliation at Augustana by AUTUMN MACDONALD The Chester Ronning Centre in conjunction with the Aboriginal Student’s Office has spent a lot of time into the preparation and support of this semester’s Spirit of the Land (SOTL) event which will happen February 16-17th named “The Spirit of Reconciliation.” The topic of reconciliation… Read More The Spirit of Reconciliation
by JENNIFER HA Sometimes, I wake up covered in cold sweat in the middle of the night because I remember that I’m graduating in four months. At any given moment, there are at least a dozen tabs open on my laptop about grad programs, internships, and resumes. Every night, LinkedIn sends me an email reminding… Read More A Review of After U: Thinking, Researching, and Communicating about My Future
How A Social Media App Affects Community by YU FEI HUANG An article on Gateway, the official student newspaper of the University of Alberta, advertised Chillabit as a great way to build community among students. As a sociology student/Dag writer, who is always curious about the things around me, I downloaded Chillabit and decided to… Read More The Case of Chillabit vs. Augustana
by KEN WINDER Yes. Donald J. Trump won the election. A joke America took seriously. Instead of focusing on the many failings of Trump, which are too numerous to mention, let’s focus on what this election means for Canada and the citizens of North America. Where the United States leads, Canada has the potential to… Read More #Trumped
by JENNIFER HA Augustana’s liberal arts curriculum has allowed (and, at times, forced) me to take courses in a variety of disciplines. As a crotchety, old fifth year, I have a transcript and a grade point average of which I am extremely proud—a result of taking a wide range of courses I found interesting and… Read More Knowing when to Fold ‘Em: What a Withdrawal Really Means on Your Transcript
by JENNIFER HA The middle of October means that every store is getting ready for Halloween, filling their aisles with pumpkins and candy. As you join in on the preparations by buying 120 “fun sized” candy bars (for the trick-or-treaters, not for panicked study sessions, right?) and carving pumpkins, you’re probably planning a costume as… Read More A Guide to Picking Your Halloween Costume
