A sweet-toned phone call masks dreaded news. During this fall semester, freshman students are beginning the college experience with an added stress: quarantine.
Freshman suitemates Chase Hollenkamp,...
My time at USI ends in two weeks, and I can’t say I’m excited. I mean, I won’t have to worry about being swamped with homework, but at least after four years, I know what to expect from college....
Ah, finally October. The weather starts to cool down, scarves, boots and flannels start to make their annual appearances, and the ever so famous Pumpkin Spice everything returns for the season.
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Convocation here at USI is an event where freshman split off in their own colleges to learn a little more about their professors and the degrees they are studying for. We...
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The first time Vanessa Smith traveled by herself, she flew to Miami, Florida, as the sole representative of the organization she joined just months before.
The freshman...
Immediately after high school graduation, Clifton Jett’s mother sat down with her son and asked if he wanted to pursue college.
“I was diagnosed with a learning disability in the second grade and...
The probability of being lifelong friends with your freshman roommate is unlikely.
The probability incoming freshman will actually believe that is even more unlikely.
It seems most students come...
Freshman Clifton Jett wanted to join “everything” college had to offer.
The day before classes started, he spoke at the first Christian service offered by university Religious Life. He feels...
Moms and dads unloading vans packed with clothes, TV’s and mini-refrigerators, faculty members guiding students around campus and an ice cream and movie night – these are just a few things to discover during this Welcome Week 2016.
Freshman and her mother ecstatic to experience campus
August 17, 2016
Light rain pattered the sidewalks as freshman Alicia Fredrick and her mother, Katherine, arrived on campus the evening of Aug. 16. The two were all smiles after a three-day road trip from California.
