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Liberal Arts Symposium – The Mountain Day of the Mind
Every academic Juniatian’s favorite school holiday: Liberal Arts Symposium. LAS is an annual event in the spring where classes are cancelled and students from all disciplines show off their work to the rest of the community. Students present on research, independent studies, class projects like speeches, stories, and art, and anything else you can dream of. My favorite presentations tend to be passion projects where students draw inspiration from a particular class and apply it to a subject they’re interested in, or dive in deeper than they could in class. Presentations last about 10-12 minutes and leave a few minutes for questions and discussion at the end. You can choose to stay for the entire panel (they typically have a theme!) or you can switch rooms and go see something totally different!
(more…)The Infamous HOBO Hike
The HOBO Hike is a rite of passage for all business students at Juniata. Everyone on campus knows about it, but only a select few have really experienced it. It’s a mystical and cryptic field trip that you’ll immediately hear fellow Juniatians talking about, but they don’t reveal what exactly it is. To start, let’s break down what HOBO is; the actual name of the course is Behavioral Analysis of Organizations. However, it was originally called something like Human Behavior in Organizations. The professor at the time decided HBO was already taken, so he threw in the “O” to separate it from the TV channel. And so, the class was dubbed HOBO and it has remained that way ever since.
(more…)Service Learning in Nawlins
New Orleans has always been at the top of my bucket list of U.S. cities to visit. So, when I heard that campus ministry was hosting a winter break service trip there, I jumped at the chance! The trip would be a weeklong community service adventure with of my five fellow students and our two fearless leaders from campus ministry (shout out to Lisa and Dani!).
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