I mentioned ages ago that I took some online classes while I studied in Brazil last spring. Any Ball State student can take online classes, although Distance Education does charge an extra fee. I opted to take some online classes while I was in Brazil because I wanted to take a full course load, but [...]
I just had a great weekend. My parents came to Ball State last Wednesday for an awards dinner, and they decided to stay until Saturday evening. While I regrettably had some homework, which kept me from spending as much time with them as I would have liked, we did have time together nearly every evening. [...]
Reasons I like my major: yearly field trip to awesome places. This year? Boston, Massachusetts (which might be the most difficult state to spell). Ok, Boston in and of itself it super cool. It’s one of the oldest cities in our country, tons of historical things have happened there, and it’s surprisingly pretty and easy [...]
Ok, I’m beginning to better understand what’s going on here. When we were creating Students for Peace in Palestine we thought a lot about what topics the group would discuss and what we wouldn’t. We talked about outreach programs and ways to begin a dialogue on campus about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We talked about information [...]
I’m so disappointed right now. I’ve been working really hard to get a lecture series going for Students for Peace in Palestine (formally Students for Justice in Palestine), and our first lecture was supposed to be tonight. However, it appears that our campus Jewish organization, Hillel, was making plans to “derail” the lecture. I don’t [...]
