A window inside life at Augustana College
Winter break at Augie is literally just that–a break. At most colleges, it’s a time to relax before a fresh new start. At Augie, it’s a short period to briefly relax and procrastinate on the homework you have due right when you return. Although winter break passed a bit too quickly (don’t worry, I still [...]
Posted on January 10th, 2012 by Ashley LaGrow
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My last post was about one of my biggest enemies, Week 10. This post, however, will ramble a bit about one of my newest and most delightful friends–Week 1. Since Augustana’s on trimesters, we recently started our winter term. Most people are taking four classes; however, I only have to take three thanks to taking [...]
Posted on November 18th, 2011 by Ashley LaGrow
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As stressful as registration hell currently is for me, I do realize that there are a few things that I will never stop loving about college. The main one being the one I’ve been excited for since high school. I am exactly who I want to be here. Coming to Augie gave me a fresh [...]
Posted on October 21st, 2011 by Ashley LaGrow
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I have never pictured myself as a “country girl” in any shape or form… until I came to Augie. Just about all of my friends and anyone else I meet here on campus are from Chicago suburbs; on occasion, I’ll find the few from other cities or big towns. I, on the other hand, have [...]
Posted on October 13th, 2011 by Ashley LaGrow
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Lately, I have been lacking some much needed downtime. However, when I’ve had downtime here at Augie so far, it has probably been no mystery to my floormates. Off of the top of my head, I can think of five ways good ol’ Swanson 2E knows when I have downtime. 1. New artwork appears on [...]
Posted on October 5th, 2011 by Ashley LaGrow
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Watch this YouTube video in its entirety before reading my post! This, my friends, is me at this very moment in time. Study. Eat. Write a paper. Study some more. Sleep if I’m lucky. This was my routine for about the past week, and it’s made life seem a bit unbearable at times. I’ve learned one [...]
Posted on September 27th, 2011 by Ashley LaGrow
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When most people heard that my best friend and I were to be rooming together, all I got as a response was an unenthusiastic ‘that’s nice’ or an ‘aren’t you guys going to get sick of each other?’ Personally, I was so glad to be able to experience something completely new with someone that I [...]
Posted on September 20th, 2011 by nicolewilcek11
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Being in college for a month, I’ve seen and heard about just about every type of roommate pairing possible–the former high school classmates, the random pairing that turned out pretty well, and then there’s the people that I wonder if they played a guessing game with the bubbles on the roommate personality surveys. I, however, [...]
Posted on September 16th, 2011 by Ashley LaGrow
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I never thought I would say this, but I actually like the liberal arts system at Augustana. Coming into college I was a little unsure about how the liberal arts system was going to work. I thought that I would have to take all these random classes that had nothing to do with my major [...]
Posted on September 23rd, 2010 by jacoborourke09
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Hey everyone, Were now halfway through the first trimester and I finally feel like I’m getting used to the college life. At first it was weird trying to juggle the homework load and all the extra free time. In high school, I hardly ever had any homework and if I did, I finished it all [...]
Posted on September 28th, 2009 by jacoborourke09
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