A window inside life at Augustana College
So my last first day at Augustana happened today – it’s a little bittersweet. But the last first day was on the heels of a fantastic Spring Break! Some highlights include: Meeting Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy! He came to Anderson’s Bookshop because he recently released a book. They have really famous authors who [...]
Posted on March 4th, 2013 by aliciaoken09
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Destiny’s Child once said: “I’m a survivor/I’m not gon give up.” That was my motto for winter term and let me tell you – I’m a survivor. Somehow I managed to complete 86+ pages for my political science and communication studies senior inquiry papers. This was on top of another 20ish pages for another class. [...]
Posted on February 14th, 2013 by aliciaoken09
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I am finally getting around to blogging about the second part of what I did during spring break. The day after I went to Colorado for the U.S. Air Force Academy Conference, I was in Florida! Literally, within 24 hours, I went from Colorado to Illinois to Florida. Luckily this time all my travel was [...]
Posted on March 13th, 2012 by aliciaoken09
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Last week, I had the opportunity to travel to Colorado to go to the National Character and Leadership Symposium – “Walk the Walk: Leaders in Ethical Action” at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA). While I’ve been to a few leadership conferences before, I learned more at this conference than any I’ve experience before — [...]
Posted on February 29th, 2012 by aliciaoken09
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Considering I only have one final now, which is on Thursday, I have three days to do basically nothing. So I decided to make up a list of things I will do, so I can feel like I was productive. 1) Learn how to play N64 2) Finish season 3 of Greek 3) Figure out [...]
Posted on February 13th, 2012 by aliciaoken09
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One of the great things about Augustana is the fact I’m not just a number. I’m not just a student in POLS101 to my professors, I’m Alicia Oken in POLS101. This is one of the reasons I wanted to to go Augustana. I wanted to attend a liberal arts college where I could go to [...]
Posted on October 19th, 2011 by aliciaoken09
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