Hope College Network

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Final exams are just around the corner, which bring a lot of stress and studying. Every student prepares for the exams and deals with a stress differently, but what does the science say? We all know the basics like eat healthy, take a break during studying and have a lot of sleep at night, but science suggest much more than just that. Say Om! When students look at test the first time, a lot of them “freak out.

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DECEMBER 8, 2015

There's more to it than just turning it off and on again

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Academic Librarian

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Donald Trump and his ilk are fearmongering about terrorism and President Obama wants to calm my nerves. Maybe it’s just that I’m congenitally not a worrier, but in my daily life I’m not in the least worried about being the victim of a terrorist attack or a mass shooting, by ISIS, right-wing extremists, or anyone else. Mass shootings and attacks are horrendous, and I can’t imagine how horrible it must be for the people who survive them and the loved ones of those who don’t, but anyone’s actual ch

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Hope College Network

DECEMBER 10, 2015

December 5 is the day that children in the Czech Republic are nervous, excited and scared. Like in Netherlands, the tradition in the Czech Republic is formed from three major figures, Svatý Mikuláš (St. Nicholas), Čert (Devil) and Anděl (Angel). St. Nicholas, Angel and Devil are the main figures of tradition in the Czech Republic, which takes a place on December 5.

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Hope College Network

DECEMBER 8, 2015

It comes as a surprise to no one that college is expensive. Everyone knows that a lot of college kids do not consider themselves too good to check between their parents’ couch cushions for lost change, to take hours of surveys online for a $5 gift card to Amazon, or to scrape together donations from friends until they have enough to get a pizza (at least partially because the leftovers will serve as meals for the next couple of days).

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Hope College Network

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Lately I’ve been noticing certain specifics in my life and wondering: If I were in a novel, would this be symbolic? Would this be metaphorical, or hold some kind of connotation other than the literal? Maybe this is just a crazy English major problem, but it’s been on my mind. One of the biggest areas of my life that I see this concept in is my desk.

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Hope College Network

DECEMBER 7, 2015

I chose to come to Hope for a lot of reasons. One being soccer (how can you say no to Van Andel Soccer Stadium ?). Another being the fact that Hope is the only Christian school I visited that didn’t require Chapel attendance. However, at those Chapel services, kids fill the building every time. Kids actually want to go to Chapel? Crazy, right?

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Hope College Network

DECEMBER 5, 2015

We have arrived at the end of the semester. Everyone is anticipating final exams, finishing last minute projects, and cramming for tests. When in doubt, get a table to yourself and just get it done. When I sit down to study on the second floor of Martha Miller , I pull out my laptop and lay it on the table. I check my phone. I put it in my backpack.

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Hope College Network

DECEMBER 4, 2015

I love, love, love Christmas and Advent. The world just feels a little different: students and teachers everywhere long for Christmas break, the ground almost seems to cry out to be covered in a blanket of snow, and the church around the world awaits the birth of Christ. Of course, we know that Christ has already come, which puts us sort of in a constant season of Advent in which we watch and wait for Christ’s return.

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Hope College Network

DECEMBER 2, 2015

There’s a park at the end of the east side of campus in the square that makes up 10th, 12th, Central and River. Its name is Centennial Park. I know that now. But freshman year, while trying to find the Pine Grove (and inadvertently walking directly through it to instead find Centennial), I sat down at a bench and stared at the empty park, wondering “where the students might be.

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Hope College Network

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Hello Readers! Happy Wednesday from my (unproductive) study session! I think many people would agree with me when I say that I’m beginning to realize how much I actually have to do before finals week. So naturally I’m procrastinating even more until crunch time actually begins. And how do I procrastinate you may ask? Why, listen to music of course!

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Hope College Network

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Thanksgiving just happened. A week and a half remain in the semester. This weird El Niño winter is dropping rain showers instead of pretty snow on campus. It seems like October was yesterday yet now it is suddenly December and any student you ask is feeling it. The last few weeks of the semester are a rush and a drag all at the same time. There is so much to do in too little time that there never seems to be enough time in a day.

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Hope College Network

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Well, readers, I just found a spot at the Library and have settled in for a long night. Tomorrow I go home, and I’m not sure I can process leaving Hope yet with the many things I have to do yet! (a.k.a. lots and LOTS of packing) As I’m sitting here studying, I’m thinking about one thing: next semester when I study abroad in Ireland I won’t see some of the people on Hope’s campus ever again.

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Hope College Network

DECEMBER 15, 2015

The semester isn’t entirely over – I still have three more finals to take (Curse you, finals schedule, for making me have two finals on Friday). Yet it pretty much is done, and with the minimal time that I have not spent studying, I’ve been sitting around and thinking about how much has changed since I was an itty-bitty freshman, and even how different I am than when I arrived earlier this year in August.

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Hope College Network

DECEMBER 6, 2015

Happy Sunday, Readers! How ya doing? Feeling the stress of finals already? I sure am… I’m five papers and one portfolio deep in words, words, words. So I’m about to give you some more words to read! Here’s my second post about music, except this time we’ll be dissecting the different types of music to listen to while doing different activities.

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Hope College Network

DECEMBER 6, 2015

It’s true, I’ve been sleeping less often than usual. I’ve been snacking during weird hours and eating sugar cookie-flavored popcorn at 10 a.m. And I glance down at the sticky notes on the keyboard of my computer to see the list of three presentations, an exam, two quizzes and four journal entries due in the next week on top of a research project I’ve barely began and two side jobs, plus owning a small company, and my easy answer would be, “busy.” But this fina

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Hope College Network

DECEMBER 10, 2015

There were more people than I expected. This is the last post I will be doing for the #JustPhelpsScholarsThings since last Friday (December 4) was the last event: the Phelps Scholars Research Presentations. It is essentially a symposium held in the Maas Auditorium in which students present the research posters they’ve been working on throughout the semester that highlights a current, global issue, their analysis of it, and a suggested plan of action against it.

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