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Decorate your dorm with style
Besides its familiar small dimensions, Spanish sophomore Candace Gray's room on the fifth floor of South Wonders Hall looks nothing like a dorm room.
Book's 'superlink' helps students learn more efficiently
It's the night before a final and you've given yourself the entire night to study for the exam.
Knitting relaxing pastime for creative MSU men, women
You know you've seen them. Maybe not every day or every week, but you've seen them. You could be at a residence hall floor meeting, taking a walk in the park or having a cram session at the Main Library — and someone pulls out their yarn and needles. Of course, MSU students who knit have heard the old-lady lines — a lot. "I get grandma jokes all the time," psychology and German sophomore Claudia Molter said. Molter has been knitting since her grandmother taught her at around age 9, and she said it's a crafty way to give gifts and make items to donate. "My friends — probably because they do it, too — they all like it," she said.
Conserving green
When Terry Link, director of the Office of Campus Sustainability, speaks to MSU classrooms about steps students can take to be more environmentally friendly, he asks the question, "How many of you have your computer sitting on, right now?" When most of the students raise their hands, he makes a projection: If the students in the class were representative of the about 17,000 students living on campus, then they are wasting up to a million watts of power an hour — depending on whether their computer is in sleep mode or not. What does it mean to waste a million watts of power an hour?
No matter what type of milk you choose, it does a body good
Ashley Juengling and her roommate go through a gallon of milk a week. "I've never drank so much milk before," said the interdisciplinary studies in social science and international studies junior.
