Hope College Network

MARCH 4, 2016

The last place I visited on my mid-term break was Northern Ireland. Leaving Austria on Wednesday and flying out of Munich Airport in Germany on Thursday, it was a crazy week already. Then right on the tail end of leaving my parents in Germany (not to be seen for another seven weeks) the IES program took us to Northern Ireland. Truthfully, I underestimated just how much traveling I would do during break, and how jam-packed this trip would be.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MARCH 1, 2016

It is often said that a pet becomes part of the family: a companion, a friend. For many for homeless and vulnerably-housed people, animal companions are often the most significant other for their owners – a strong example of the human-animal bond and a source of stability and continuity in often-difficult lives. All4Paws is a new, student-led community project in the Vet School providing ‘pop-up’ vet clinics for homeless and vulnerably-housed people and their animals.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 1, 2016

Teaching Matters is the University of Edinburgh’s website for debate about learning and teaching, for sharing ideas and approaches to teaching, and for showcasing our successes, including academic colleagues who are leading the way in delivering brilliant teaching. Every month we take a theme and explore it through a video feature highlighting one of our ‘4*’ teachers, articles , a ‘ Focus on a School ’, and a number of blog contributions over the month.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

The case for Student-led individually created courses Raphy, my nephew, is 18 months old. Just under a year ago he started learning how to walk. I remember my Dad buying him a new ‘walker’ – a shiny red toy car in the shape of a trolley, designed to give little ones extra balance. Raphy loved it and would play with it for hours on end. He would push his little red car for a few steps, then fall sideways, backwards, sometimes doing an ungainly forward roll.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 4, 2016

The annual International Food Day will be held on February 25 in Maas Center Auditorium from 6 to 8 p.m. The public is invited. The food will be available in exchange for tickets that will be sold at the door. Entry is $5 which will pay for 5 tickets; extra tickets cost 50 cents. This is what everyone else saw. An enjoyable, easy-going evening with a bunch of friends and foods from around the world, courtesy of Hope’s students.

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Academic Librarian

MARCH 2, 2016

From what I’ve read, the methods Sci-Hub uses to acquire material range from the dangerous and stupid (e.g., providing strangers access to your network) to the illegal and unethical (e.g. phishing scams). Both of those are bad. However, the ethics of the existence of the repository itself is very debatable, and aside from the possible network security problems, most academics, including most academic librarians, probably aren’t going to care that much about Sci-Hub.

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MARCH 2, 2016

Are American students fleeing to Europe?

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Hope College Network

MARCH 3, 2016

In my current English class ( English 113 ), which is also required to take in order the graduate from Hope College, we got an assignment to write a personal essay. Firstly, I did not know what to write about, so my first couple paragraphs were about the European migrant crisis. Since I am an European it could be considered “personal” to me that a lot of refugees and economic migrants move to my homeland.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 2, 2016

There are less than 70 weeks of classes left of my time at Hope. That’s the timeline facing any current sophomore that is graduating in four years. We’re almost halfway there. And it’s kind of scary. There are a lot of things that I have no idea about that I need to figure out over the next two years: What kind of internships should I apply for?

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Hope College Network

MARCH 1, 2016

Having a church to go to every Sunday is a little bit like having a home team, I think. A church can be a community of love, support and faith outside of the college context. Up until recently, I’ve only attended Hope’s Chapel and Gathering services. One of my best friends, Rachel, and I decided that we want to find a traditional church in the Holland area to attend.

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Hope College Network

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

I’ve missed you, readers! I apologize for my writing absence during the last week as I was living out of a backpack (clothes and all) and didn’t have room for my laptop. It’s so good to be back, and I’m PUMPED to tell you all about my travels. Here’s how I’m going to structure this: since I didn’t write at all last week and I have three places that I went over break, instead of two blogs this week, you’ll get three!

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Hope College Network

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

As a freshman, you’ll make yourself a lot of promises like “I’ll sleep early, get up at 5 a.m., and work out at the Dow every day,” or “I’ll eat healthy every single day and never waste money on a pizza delivery,” or better yet “I’ll keep my work area organized and never lose a single paper!” I’m sorry to break it to you, but most of the promises you’ll make in the beginning of fall semester will never see the light of day p

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MARCH 3, 2016

Yesterday, I had really busy day. Before taking the written driving test, I declared a major in Political Science and a minor from Philosophy. I will be still declaring a second (double) major from Management and a second (double) minor from Economics this Friday. Eventually, I am hoping to bump my Philosophy minor to a third major since the difference between minor and major in Philosophy is only 8 credits, but for now I wrote it as minor for now.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 1, 2016

The second place my family and I traveled while on my midterm break was Salzburg, Austria. For those of you that are unfamiliar with the city, it was the city where one of the most famous movies ever was filmed – The Sound of Music ! I have vivid memories from when I was younger of my family watching this movie or singing to the soundtrack (because, yes, we had that, too) and all of us having this internal unspoken knowledge that we’d have to visit the magical city where it was filmed befo

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