January, 2016

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Five Reasons You Shouldn’t Save Your Homework for Sunday

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The last few weekends I’ve been in the horrible habit of consolidating all of my work due Monday to being finished on Sunday. It sounded like a good idea on Friday and Saturday, when I took rest days, hung out with friends and such. But once Sunday rolls around and I finally open up my planner, I’m in for a long day at the library. If there were a “Be Like Me” Facebook meme for this situation, it would say this: Here’s why you shouldn’t be like me and should g

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Scholarly Conversations, Seed Documents, and the Regressive New WorldCat

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I write this after a traumatic experience. Yesterday, through force of circumstances, I had to use the new WorldCat interface to demonstrate research techniques, and the experience wounded me. Some background: I teach a library school course called Introduction to Sources and Services in the Arts and Humanities, and one focus of the course is to prepare students to provide research consultations to advanced undergraduate students in the humanities.

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Part 2: The best higher education digital marketing campaigns of 2015

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Some of the best social media & digital marketing campaigns from 2015

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The Best Beginning to a Beautiful End

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Where has the time gone? I’m three weeks into my final semester at Hope. They say if you blink you might miss it, so I’m doing my best to keep my eyes wide open to capture every moment I can. Four years goes fast. And if you complete college in three years (like myself), it goes even faster. I remember getting that letter in the mail in the summer after my senior year of high school, reading “you’ve transferred 37 credits.” I remember dodging re-signing up for Gen E

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A Thought on Lazy Nights

Hope College Network

Happy Thursday, Readers! I hope that your days are going well and you are getting ready for an awesome weekend. How was the Hope/Calvin game? Heard Hope won – no surprise. Do you all want to know what I did yesterday? I did absolutely nothing. I made dinner, did homework, and laid in my bed until I decided to go to bed at 11 p.m. My friends were out on the town, but me?

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Phelps Scholars Program

Hope College Network

With the first semester ended, the First Year Seminar is finished as well. Since, I am part of the Phelps Scholars Program , my first year seminar was with Phelps Scholars. The first year seminar was only one of the things that we as Phelps Scholars did together. But in this quote by former Phelps Scholar describes it well. The Phelps Scholars Program brings together so many people from different backgrounds, cultures, and customs.

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Attending the MLK Civil Rights Lecture at Hope

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Last Monday, I had the opportunity to attend the Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Lecture that was held in Dimnent Chapel. The speaker, David Paul, is a Hope alum and, fun fact: he is the youngest speaker to be asked to speak at the MLK Lecture! He presented his lecture entitled, “Dare to Be BOLD,” in which he spoke about Dr. King in his early life and the struggles he faced as he spoke out against injustices he witnessed.

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The Hypnotist Visits Hope

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This past Friday, Chris Jones, the Hypnotist who was a contestant on America’s Got Talent , performed for Hope College in the Maas Auditorium. It was absolutely insane and I, along with the rest of the audience, enjoyed every second of it. Although I didn’t get hypnotized (I tried) many others did, suddenly dropping their heads at the sound of his voice.

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Do Not Fly During the Christmas Time!

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This was my travel back to Hope. In Prague, where my journey was starting, everything was going everything well. We took off on time and the flight was smooth. But just about 30 minutes to landing in London Heathrow Airport, the captain announced that we will have about 25 minutes delay because Heathrow Airport was really busy that Sunday. So we had to circle above London for roughly 20 minutes.

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Christmas in the Czech Republic

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In the Czech Republic, we have very certain way of celebrating Christmas and it has been a tradition over multiple generations. Basically, most of the not all traditions happen during December 24 th. In Czech we call this day “Štědrý Den”, which in the translation means “Generous Day”. Continuing on, Czechs have a tradition or a superstition of “Zlatý Prasátko” (Golden Pig).

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What’s in a Name?

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The snow is falling down once again on this beautiful snow globe of a campus that I am so happy to call home sweet Hope. It’s not always pretty and magical and happy. College is hard, life is scary, and you are surrounded by people trying and succeeding to figure stuff out while you are trying to decide if it’s fine if you wait until tomorrow to make time to shower even though that’s what you told yourself last night.

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Some Essentials for Routine

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Happy Thursday to you, Readers! Only one more day until Friday for ya, WAHOO!! So I’ve been in Ireland for a couple of weeks now, and have finally gotten into a routine. Classes have started, I know my way around the city (well, kind of), and I’m getting into the groove of cooking for myself. Saying this, I thought it would be helpful to put out a post of a few essentials that you need to pack with you if ever you find yourself traveling or studying abroad so that you can get into a

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Taking Full Advantage of Campus Offices

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One thing that I love about college is that I have so many things at my disposal right now that might never be provided again. With one phone call, my driveway gets plowed, and I do not even have to pay for it. A visit to the library allows me to use an HTML-writing program on the computers there when classes are in session in the computer science labs.

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Defeating the College Major Label [Part 1]

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Hello again! We’ve officially survived our first week of classes here at Hope! I’m writing now about a very personal experience that I had over winter break. I find this topic relevant to most college students, which is why I’ve decided to be vulnerable and share it. Among the oodles and doodles of time I had over break, I spent much of it doing, well, absolutely nothing.

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Find the Shortcuts

Hope College Network

Happy Sunday, Readers! I hope your weekend is coming to a wonderful close and you aren’t too sad about starting the next week of school. For me, this week has been filled to the brim with everything from the awesome experience of starting class in a new country to the lovely views of Howth and Dublin Castle, but during these experiences I’ve noticed one vital characteristic about myself that I want to share with you: I hate taxis.

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A Chance Encounter on a Hope College Sidewalk.

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There are a lot of reasons I love Hope College. Two of my favorite reasons: (1) the people of Hope, and (2) the way God moves through them. Let me give you a little taste of why in this throwback story to just before the semester break… It’s Friday, the week before Finals, and I am making my way home from my last class of the semester with my friends.

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Planner Organization 101: The Basics

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With the beginning of a new year, I know I am not alone in saying that I have every intention of making this new semester (my last!), the best one yet. I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions, but this year I am going to continue working on one of my goals I seemed to struggle with last semester: staying organized. It may have been due to the fact that the semester prior, I was abroad, living the European academic lifestyle!

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30,000 Feet

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I can remember a time where, on K-Love (the Christian radio station), there was an excerpt that played over and over again comparing our problems to that of a plane ride. The excerpt explained that often times we get caught up in our own perspective, underneath the “clouds” of life. It isn’t until our plane breaks through the clouds, that we realize there’s a lot of God-given beauty above, all around, and frankly all throughout our seemingly dreary situation.

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A New Season in Ireland

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I’m here, I’m here, I’m here, Readers! It’s been a long time coming and it’s a bit surreal, but I’ve finally made it across the pond and into this crazy adventure in Dublin, Ireland. Now, I could talk about my first reactions to Ireland (which were SO positive) or what I think of their scones (AMAZING) but instead I want to talk about something else: dependence.

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How to Make Your Own Fun

Hope College Network

At Hope, there are plenty of great opportunities for students to relax and enjoy life beyond homework. Winter Fantasia (a SAC-sponsored dance), Men’s Night Out and Women’s Night Out (biannual Campus Ministries events) and the Hope-Calvin basketball game occurred either in the past week or will occur this week. Needless to say, college kids can stay busy.

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Smells Like Pickles

Hope College Network

If you go about a mile down 10th street from Hope’s campus towards Lake Macatawa you will find yourself in Kollen Park. Kollen Park sits on land that used to a basket factory in the late 1890s into the early 1900s. Eventually the land was bought by Martha Diekema Kollen who gave the land to the city of Holland with the purpose of it being converted into a park that everyone could use.

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An Interview with Kevin Rukundo

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This following post is an interview with one of the tallest students on campus. Kevin Rukundo is a sophomore from Rwanda. This is his second year at Hope College and he is majoring in Economics and French. In his free time, he likes to talk to his family, play FIFA 16 , hang out with his girlfriend, go to athletic events and sleep. If you could describe Hope College academics in an adjective, verb, and noun what would it be?

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Overnight Stay at Hope

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If you are prospective or admitted student you can spend a night or nights with current student. At Hope we call it an overnight visit. I have done one of those two weeks ago with my friend from Sweden. Unlike from other students, I knew him for two years, so we did not have to break the ice by all kinds of questions, so my jobs was easier from this point of view.

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Give Me Moher!!

Hope College Network

Okay, readers, I’m going to dive right into it: on Friday, I got to experience something breathtaking. I got to go to the Cliffs of Moher. Here are a few pictures of this fantastic seascape: Now let’s talk about the experience of being at the Cliffs. The Cliffs of Moher are easily the most beautiful landscape I’ve seen while in Ireland. And that’s saying something, too, because I’ve been to Howth , the Wicklow Mountains and Dublin City , which all their own special beauty

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Writing for Media at Hope College

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One of my jobs on campus, this job, is essentially the title of this blog post: Writing for Media at Hope College. However, when I titled that post I wasn’t planning on talking about my job as a student blogger, though it is relevant. Right now I’m enrolled in a communications course (Comm 255) called Writing for Media. In this class, we learn the basic skills to construct news and feature stories.

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So You Want to Come to Hope

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While lying in my bed over Christmas break I began getting all sorts of notifications from the Hope College admitted student’s Facebook group. This is a group that prospective students for the following academic year are able to access once they’ve received their acceptance letter. I was instantly brought back to my days as an avid pre-college Facebook group user.

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Starting “Spring” Semester

Hope College Network

A few days ago, I received an email from the professor of one of the classes I’ll be starting tomorrow for the new semester. In it, he mentioned the optimism present as we refer to the second half of the school year as “spring semester.” In Holland, Michigan, it feels like spring usually starts during the last week of classes at the end of April, but we peer through the snow at the beginning of January and the windy grayness of the earth and sky during February and the muddy sl

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Part 1: The best higher education digital marketing campaigns of 2015

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Who had the best social media & digital marketing campaigns last year

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Great idea: Hiram College’s 'The Terrier Scholarship'

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We're going barking mad for this great scholarship campaign!

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How to increase the impact of your university’s PPC advertising

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Increase the ROI of your pay per click campaigns

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Why Be a Religion Major?

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When I came into my freshman year at Hope I was a music education major. After my first semester, at some encouragement from a professor and a “life crisis” spurred on by myself and by emotion-creating medication for my consistent and random freshman year illnesses, I made the call to add a major in voice performance and a minor in management (possible, but crazy).

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525,600 Minutes

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During my time at North Allegheny’s Ingomar Middle School in Mccandless, Pennsylvania, every single year the 8th grade chorus would sing a rendition of “Seasons of Love” from the musical Rent. The idea was that the lyrics of the song, reflecting on what “measures a year”, (in the song, love is deemed the only proper measurement), could sum up our time as the top dogs of the middle school.

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