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#127 – A ReBoot on Valentine’s Day
No matter your thoughts on Valentine’s Day (love it, hate it, indifferent towards it) – I think you’ll appreciate Vivian O.‘s challenge to all of us. Help her out by showing generosity towards your...
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#128 – CCIW Champ Lady Reds Basketball
Your Lady Red basketball team just clinched the Conference Championship this past Friday – for the only the second time in their history – how awesome is that?! And the icing on the cake? This means...
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#129 – Tiny Icebergs
The weather sure has been tricky lately: one day it is sunny and “warm” (warm for winter, that is) and the next, it’s snowy and super chilly. While it may be prime time to catch a cold (be sure to...
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#130 – Making [Blinding] Snow Fun
You know what I find awesome? This photo of Joyce S. (’16) with the statue of Abraham Lincoln on campus today. I find it particularly awesome on today of all days because – as we all know – it’s...
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#131 – An E-mail Chain about Snow Removal
If you didn’t know we got a lot of snow on Tuesday night into yesterday, you may have been living under a rock. In that case, good morning! For the rest of us, the snow presented a number of...
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#132 – Digging Deep (to get out)!
With more snow knocking on our door step, this story from Haley M. (submitted on Friday) seems even more awesome: “Today when I went to move my car for the emergency snow evacuation, I couldn’t get it...
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#133 – Providing Feedback & Stopping Hunger
Every year Sodexo, Carthage’s food-service provider, asks students, faculty and staff to fill out a short customer-service survey about the food options on campus. They’ve offered various incentives...
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#134 – Puddle Jumping
WOW – yes! We have gotten a LOT of wet weather lately. First it was all kinds of snow, then a little rain, followed by more snow and now plenty more rain. Due to all of this craziness, there are...
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#135 – Birthdays & Roommates
Check out this post we received from Taylor M. (’13): “Yesterday (March 13) was my 22nd birthday and I was off campus until about 2pm. I came back to find my bed covered in 20+ balloons which are now...
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#136 – The Diversity Institute
Last week, Laura Kitoi (Hall Director for Tarble, Swenson, and the Apartments) put together an incredible series of workshops called the “Diversity Institute.” It was all kinds of awesome. Check out...
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#137 – Relay for Life 2013
It was very ambitious (some said insane) for Colleges Against Cancer to set their fundraising goal for this year’s Relay for Life to match a full year’s tuition: $42,000. When the announcement was...
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#138 – Pushing Us to Be Our Best
Thank you so much to Abby M. (’16) for sharing the story below. With so much happening in the news to make us question our faith in humanity, stories like this remind us that the world is made up of...
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#139 – Packing 14,000 meals in 2 hours
I can’t believe the numbers submitted here by Kaylene F. (’16): “On Saturday (the 20th), 60+ students volunteered to help package meals that are designed to fight malnourishment and starvation. In just...
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#140 – A Full Moon Over the Lake
As I was walking around campus last night, I saw many students taking photos of the full moon over the lake. Most of them had their cell phones directed in the general area, and I imagined that they...
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#141 – Being an Advocate
Ellis & Myles outside of their room, with the pledge of support on their door. In his recent submission to the blog, Adam S. (’14) quotes Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: Dumbledore says to...
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#142 – Breakfast by the Lake
It’s shaping up to be another absolutely gorgeous day today – is there possibly a better way to kick it off than eating breakfast on the patio overlooking the lake? Take it from Jason K. (’14) and...
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