Time takes on curious qualities at the College. No matter how long it’s been or how far we go, one step onto the herringbone bricks, and it’s like we never left. But time is a tricky thing: There’s never enough of it, and yet it never really stops. And at the College, the clock is
Michael Bennett isn’t really one to sit idly by. He’s a man of movement, of enterprise. He doesn’t have the patience for hesitation. He can’t wait to take action. The way he sees it, you don’t get very far just sitting still. Which is precisely why Bennett dropped out of school during his junior year
Sustainability can refer to different things in different situations. The College’s Office of Sustainability has taught these two students that sustainability isn’t something one person, one community, one solution can make happen. Rather, it’s something that connects us all. by Britton Holmes ’15 and Kelsey Deporte ’15 My time at the College has been a
America is founded on myths. Many of our dreams and legends are the stuff of great ambition, of great hope and of great heroes. However, they don’t always fit the type, and sometimes the American hero is the myth itself. by Elijah Siegler I’m writing this on the day that they released Oscar nominations for
We’re all faced with things that make us uncomfortable from time to time. This alumna tells us how learning to embrace that discomfort and walk through the open doors in her life has led to one great opportunity after another. by Lizzy Willingham ’14 I’d never flown by myself. The only traveling I’d done was
It all started in a middle school gymnasium in North Carolina. Dressed in knee-high socks, an old T-shirt and baggy basketball shorts, 13-year-old Ally Beckman shuffled onto the makeshift volleyball court with dozens of other eighth-graders getting ready for the first day of practice in the Apex Recreation Department’s volleyball league. She did not want
Count from 1 to 300. Go ahead. We’ll wait. You’ll soon realize it’s a bigger number than it sounds: It’s going to take a while. That should give you an appreciation of the 300 victories racked up by Ralph Lundy in his 29 seasons as the head coach of the men’s soccer team. It all
Most people see the hair first. It’s understandable, given the fact that Joshua Bloodworth ’15 (M.P.A.) sports a three-inch-tall Mohawk. But there’s a lot more to the graduate student than his stiff shock of neatly coiffed hair. As president of the Graduate Student Association (GSA), Bloodworth represents about 800 graduate students at the Graduate School
What does it mean to find your voice? For some, it calls for joyously living out loud. Others transform their voice into action, making sound to make change. There are also those who buck their comfort zone, amplifying inner worlds to comfort others. However we choose to find our voice, doing so can be frequently
Since 2010, anthropology professor and associate department chair Hector Qirko has been captivating his students on a wide range of topics, from pop culture to social and cultural change. We sat down with Professor Qirko to discuss his interest in better understanding human behavior, his research into suicide terrorism and his passion for music, both
