Professional dress is some­thing most of us have donned at least once in our col­lege career, and I can only imag­ine how muti­nous you must feel at the prospect.

To make mat­ters worse, pro­fes­sional dress is hor­ri­ble for sum­mer weather. A full suit gets hot very fast and some minor busi­nesses do not have air con­di­tion­ing, not to men­tion Michigan, as many of us have expe­ri­enced, can get very hot in the sum­mer. (more…)

What makes a good pro­fes­sor dif­fer­ent from a bad one in the eyes of Ferris State University stu­dents? Some pro­fes­sors never can­cel class. Other pro­fes­sors have course­work due daily with a quiz the first five min­utes of class.

And yes, I know a pro­fes­sor like this. He is smart, and he knows it. He can be con­de­scend­ing and likes to put stu­dents on the spot. I fear this pro­fes­sor. (more…)

Smelling the pages of musty old books is largely becom­ing a thing of the past as more and more stu­dents use tech­nol­ogy to find their favorite books and their least favorite textbooks.

After a lot of sub­tle hint­ing to my boyfriend, he got me a Kindle as a present. Nothing fancy, just a stan­dard one that will hold enough books for me to stay happy for quite awhile. I imme­di­ately filled it with all the cheap­est books I could find, and one not so cheap one, a textbook.

I wanted to see how I would like using a Kindle to hold a text­book, and as it turns out it was pretty handy. I could look up words with its built-in dic­tio­nary and it was easy to use with the fancy-dancy touch screen. (more…)

Television and Internet stream­ing has made our gen­er­a­tion a nation of watch­ers, but not doers.

I remem­ber play­ing out­side a lot as a child, swing­ing and run­ning down to the river with my puppy to watch the canoes go by. I would spend hours fight­ing off ene­mies and pre­tend­ing I was a wood nymph. I have an active imag­i­na­tion and did not need to Google ideas like I had to do with this arti­cle. (more…)

It’s an amaz­ing learn­ing expe­ri­ence to walk around cam­pus and learn five new swear­words before I arrive at my destination.

I am not a goody-two shoes when it comes to swear­ing. I learned a lot of swear­words when I was younger by lis­ten­ing to my dad’s bud­dies around the garage. I even swear when I stub my toe. But at least I use the word in the appro­pri­ate con­text. (more…)

Double stan­dards are with us wher­ever we go, but do you really notice them in your every­day life?

I never noticed them before I left for col­lege, now it is almost impos­si­able for me ignore them thanks to education.

Look at the enter­tain­ment indus­try, for exam­ple. Girl punches guy: com­edy. Guy punches girl: abuse. Lesbians are hot, but gay cou­ples are gross. If a guy sleeps around, he’s a sex god. If a girl does it, she’s a whore. (more…)

Did you know “sag­ging” started in prison as a sign for a person’s avail­abil­ity for sex­ual rela­tions with other inmates?

I hadn’t either until I heard this rumor on the Internet. I was so intrigued by this idea that I did a lit­tle research. According to snopes​.com, this rumor is only half true. Sagging did start in prison, but not for any sex­ual rea­sons.  (more…)

The most impor­tant time of our lives is upon us; many of us are choos­ing careers, dat­ing more seri­ously and mak­ing deci­sions that will impact our future.

It is scary to think that the deci­sions you make now could impact your life for­ever, and this goes dou­ble for your dat­ing life. (more…)

Handwriting is some­thing most col­lege stu­dents avoid when­ever pos­si­ble, and now the pub­lic school sys­tem is mak­ing it even easier.

Many states are no longer requir­ing schools to teach cur­sive writ­ing. This deci­sion has been met with some con­tro­versy on the Internet. The older gen­er­a­tion seems more hos­tile to the idea, while the younger gen­er­a­tion is applaud­ing. (more…)

More changes are com­ing to Ferris’ cam­pus. Carlisle and Masselink Halls are offi­cially set to be demol­ished by August 2012.

The clos­ing of these two halls is a result of Ferris’ mas­ter plan to move all hous­ing to south cam­pus. North cam­pus will become more stu­dent activ­ity ori­en­tated with the plans of ren­o­vat­ing the Rankin Student Center. (more…)