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The Junior Year Phase
October 2, 2018
Hi everyone! It’s officially been over a month since I started junior year, so this blog is long overdue! If you ask me what is different about junior year, I…
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iZone: A New Place for Collaboration, Problem Solving, Studying, and More
September 26, 2018
Last January, the area formerly known as ITS was closed for construction. This made many students unhappy because they relied on that space for studying and meeting for group projects,…
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A Review of ECE 101: Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering
September 24, 2018
The University of Rochester offers many different majors across tons of different disciplines, and engineering is one of the big ones on campus. The University offers majors like mechanical engineering,…
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How Your Education Prepares You for the Real World
September 19, 2018
The one thing that constantly amazes me about students here at the University of Rochester is how multi-faceted they all are. Every single person you meet here has a wide…
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Studying Abroad in the Land Down Under
August 6, 2018
Hi, everyone! In case you have been wondering why I’ve been M.I.A. this past spring, I was on exchange at the University of Sydney in Australia! It has been an…
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The Bioethics Bootcamp Series
May 14, 2018
by Sara Kowalski, Class of 2017, Humanities Fellow Bioethics is a fascinating subfield of philosophy that you can study here at Rochester. It’s all about the ethics of medicine and…
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The Human Side of Medicine: Policy, Philosophy, and More!
May 9, 2018
by Sara Kowalski, Class of 2017, Humanities Fellow With our distinguished University of Rochester Medical Center right next door, it is easy to get excited about the cutting-edge research in…
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A Review of CAS 145: Navigating the Academy
May 3, 2018
CAS 145: Navigating the Academy is a class hosted by the David T. Kearns Center at the University of Rochester. The objective of the course is to “provide an opportunity for…
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Study Abroad in the Humanities!
May 2, 2018
by Sara Kowalski, Class of 2017, Humanities Fellow One of the most amazing experiences you can have as a humanities major is studying abroad (and that’s saying a lot considering…
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The Final Stretch, AKA Finals!
April 25, 2018
It’s that dreadful time of year: finals season. During my first year of college, finals went exactly how you would have expected: endless all-nighters, running solely on coffee, ramen, and snacks,…
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Philosophy: The Study of Ideas, the Ideas of Study, and Everything Else
April 24, 2018
by Sara Kowalski, Class of 2017, Humanities Fellow Is college about studying or about discovering the meaning of life? Why not both? Here at Rochester, you can actually study life’s…
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3 Things I’m Glad I Did While at Rochester
April 23, 2018
Graduation is around the corner for me (still can’t believe it), and out of nostalgia, anxiety for the future, and lots of love for Rochester, I thought I would look…