Lauren Simenson

09 Dec 2015

Commuters must take an active role in getting involved on campus

For me, going to college in my hometown is practical; I am here to graduate with a degree and to get that first job out of college that I don’t dislike too much. But, at the end of my freshman year of college, I realized that the whole year had flown by and I had little to show for it. I had “participated” in some clubs, I had a job, but that was it. I hadn’t done anything spectacular or something to challenge myself.

04 Dec 2015

The start of winter cold brings back warm summer memories

Snow is finally here, falling to the ground in giant, fluffy dots that resemble the heads of Q-tips more than the individual, beautiful flakes I've always been told they should look like.

02 Dec 2015

The start of winter brings back warm summer memories

This past June I went on a trip that was the highlight of my first summer after starting college, in fact it was one of the best trips of my life. On June 04, 2015 my dad and I loaded up the green truck with a sturdy, albeit quite dented Grumman canoe and left for the Boundary Waters.

18 Nov 2015

China's 'Singles' Day' a unique holiday that shows how strange the world can be

It has been a week with so much loss -senseless, violent, and unwarranted loss. The flow of information, video, pictures, eye – witness accounts, posts, tweets… has been overwhelming and dare I say even inescapable.

12 Nov 2015

Reveling in silence can be refreshing after midterms

Agitated, I pressed the gas pedal of my borrowed car closer to the floor, my bright headlights illuminating shadowy trees as I sped past them. My shiny black car disappeared in the darkness as it wound up the road that signified I was almost home. The unpainted and graying blacktopped roads near my house were totally deserted, as per the usual, as I drove right down the middle. I had two hands wrapped around the slick, leather steering wheel and two watchful eyes, itchy from dry contacts, scouting for deer as I silently urged the car to move faster.

06 Nov 2015

Motherʼs passion for cooking brings about fond memories

For me, all food is comfort food. Well, let me amend that. All food that comes from my kitchen is comfort food. My childhood memories are often tangled, like spaghetti clinging to a fork, around memories of food.

29 Oct 2015

Benghazi hearings a waste of resources

Another week, another failed takedown of former Secretary of State, First Lady, United States Senator, and current democratic Presidential candidate Hilary Rodham Clinton.

23 Oct 2015

Americans must stay informed when it comes to news

After watching one of John Oliver’s segments from last Sunday on Canadian elections from his HBO show “Last Week Tonight”-on YouTube, I don’t have spare money to just throw at HBO - it occurred to me that Americans, okay the majority of Americans, really have no idea what is going on.

15 Oct 2015

Myers-Briggs test gives interesting but potentially insufficient insight into personality

Kindergarten exhausted me. Being with 24 to 30 five-and six-year-olds would drain my energy. I’d drag my feet getting off the high steps of the bus and come home drooping like a wilting flower, needing a nap and a lot of peace and quiet. My mom would let me go to my room uninterrupted while she enticed my twin brother away from me with an engaging and usually loud activity. He always returned home from kindergarten bursting with energy, bounding off the bus steps, eyes bright, never sitting still for a moment.

08 Oct 2015

Planned Parenthood discussions bring about heated arguments

Planned Parenthood. Just those two words have an intense and immediate ability to divide people into two groups.