With the last week of classes drawing to a close and finals week being the last remaining obstacle standing between students and a well-deserved break, Michigan State soon will be saying goodbye to a semester that presented its fair share of adversities and triumphs.
Never think you know someone based on a first impression. Within five minutes of meeting my best friend, I decided she was judgmental and that we were going to constantly butt heads. Five years later, I don’t know anyone else on the planet more like myself.
After November’s election, many U.S. representatives and senators were unseated, and their terms will end in January. These congressmen and congresswomen now are serving their “lame duck” period as representatives, a time usually defined by inactivity and a lack of productivity among our government.
Christmas season is a wonderful time of the year for many people. When the leftovers from the Thanksgiving turkey finally have been finished, and students begin working hard to defeat the looming finals, one thing is on most people’s minds: Dec. 25.
More than 150 years ago, MSU was founded as the first land-grant institution in the country, created as an example for other land-grant colleges that later would be established in the United States.
Throughout the years, unions have fought for the rights and benefits of the average working American.
I would like to take this opportunity to applaud ASMSU and the university for moving forward on implementing a preferred-name system at MSU.
MSU always has made a commitment to the environment, pledging not only to cheer “Go green,” but to operate in an environmentally conscious manner.
Unlike many other Spartans who knew they wanted to go to MSU almost since birth, I had a different plan for my education. Like my two older sisters before me, I assumed I would go to the local community college and then later decide where I wanted to transfer.
It is no secret college is a time in one’s life filled with a great amount of financial anxiety, but some experts now predict these concerns might be impacting more than just a student’s bank account.
Earlier this month, I celebrated my 20th birthday. But a kid turning 20, much like turning 19, really isn’t anything special, and it’s not really worthy of any sort of celebration.
Although the presidential election seemed to overshadow any state election this November, three states — Maryland, Maine and Washington — all voted to recognize same-sex marriage. In another state, a ballot proposal that would have amended Minnesota’s state constitution to ban same-sex marriage was struck down by voters. This came just months after President Barack Obama affirmed his support of same-sex marriage.
Now that the 2012 election has come and gone, it is clear the Republican Party lost in many ways. With these defeats, both in Senate seats and, more importantly, the White House, it is easy to assume the Republican Party is reeling and that it must re-evaluate its core or suffer similar defeats in the future.
Every student has the same goal in mind when he or she enters the college classroom: to finish the class with a 4.0. Nothing defines success in a course quite like earning an A.
This past summer, I worked as a historic interpreter at Fort Mackinac on Mackinac Island. Dressed up as a soldier who would have been stationed there in the 1880s, I spent the summer shooting rifles, muskets and cannons for visitors.
Many of you probably saw the recent news broadcasts about a woman in Cleveland who drove up on a sidewalk to get around a school bus.
As the role of higher education continues to change in students’ lives, classrooms themselves also are changing, and some say it’s for the worse.
The Big Ten Conference is one of tradition, with its proud, long history as the oldest Division 1 college athletic conference in the country.
With the “fiscal cliff” quickly approaching, policymakers in Washington, D.C., are rushing to reach a solution to our government’s deficit problem. It widely is accepted that raising taxes dampens economic growth, and doing so would be unwise and risk sending the economy spinning into another recession.
Many students at MSU have experienced what it’s like to share a classroom with hundreds of other students. MSU’s largest lecture classes can be composed of more than 500 students, leaving many to feel the classroom is impersonal and too large for class interaction.