Two hundred and twenty first-year students packed their packs, checked their gear and loaded into vans on Friday, Sept. 14 to embark on a series of outdoor, student-led adventures lasting the entirety of the first weekend of the fall semester. An extension of first-year orientation, Outdoor Introduction ...
Thanks to a pilot program that began this fall, students seeking ways to save money on textbook costs now have free access to 44,000 e-books. An e-book is an online version of a printed book. The e-books can be accessed with a wide range of mobile-enabled devices, and students can browse available ...
Why did I seek out the position of sex columnist, you may ask? I didn't. I was offered the position. I'd like to think it is because I remind people of a younger, less horse-like Carrie Bradshaw, but it probably has more to do with the fact that I talk so brazenly about my experiences (fine, sexperiences). Since ...
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Dana Yeaton has been teaching a playwriting class at the College since 1999. "That makes it about 13 years now," said Yeaton, a seasoned playwright himself. Yeaton has high expectations for his class this semester. "I want them to understand and be able to ...
Upon arriving home last May after my first semester of college, I was convinced I had destroyed my body. I had been hearing about this new phenomenon known as "juicing" – when you drink only juice for a given number of days. One juice cleanse in particular, The Blue Print Cleanse (BPC), ...
This summer marked the kick-off of a brand-new Middlebury-funded internship program called Food Works Louisville. The program strives to solve farming and food access issues in and around Louisville, Ky. Alexa Beyer '15.5 interned at Food Works Louisville this summer, along with several other Middlebury ...
Last Winter Term, Rafael Manyari '15 took a class called "Next Steps for the Youth Climate Movement" taught by Pic Walker '93. Because of his Winter Term experience, Manyari found himself playing an important role in the youth climate movement in his home country of Peru this summer. From late July ...
It's no surprise that Midd kids like to take full advantage of their summer vacation to give back to their communities, and Julia Paolillo '15.5 is no exception. Originally from New Haven, Conn., Paolillo participated in a program after high school called the African Leadership Academy, located near ...
As a result of student feedback, Orientation for the class of 2016 featured several changes to the schedule of events designed to introduce first-years to life at the college. "Every year after Orientation we ask first-years to fill out a survey and give us feedback on particular events," said Associate ...
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Once upon a time there was a boy in the Bronx. He kept his hair trimmed low and his shirts crisp. His pants resembled nothing of the skinny jeans style he would come to marry a few years later. He had two liberal families headed by artist parents. He often broke out into dance, but he had yet to discover ...
Every year, Middlebury students hold their breath for the announcement of the spring concert performer. They hope to hear that a well-known artist is coming to rock their Saturday night. This year three DJs, Drop the Lime, White Panda and Savoy will be the putting on the big show. “According to survey ...
Maxine Atkins Smith, civil rights activist She knew Martin Luther King, Jr. when they were both undergraduates and she was with him on the night that he was assassinated. But if you ask Maxine Atkins Smith about the Middlebury portion of her college years, the first thing that comes to mind is, “It ...
On a misty April afternoon, a class of 14 Middlebury students, dressed in hiking gear and carrying day packs, are spread out in groups of two or three throught a forest. It looks similar to most forests, except for the fact that most trees are so large that you cannot get your arms around them; they ...
For Yoni Ackerman and Noah Isaacson, seniors at Bowdoin and creators of AddSeven.com, the premise of their project was simple. “We wanted to create a site that people wanted to use and that was actually useful to them,” the pair wrote in an email. According to the Middlebury site’s “About” ...
If our lives are stories we unfold, then leaving is punctuation — the friends we make, the lovers we fall for, often leave our lives in unexpected, often painful ways. Sometimes it is with an exclamation point, a final blow-up argument. Sometimes it is a long, drawn-out ellipses, a slow drifting away. ...
If Midd Kids are buzzing about something, it is probably up on MiddBlog. Or it will be in an hour or so. According to the blog’s “About” page, “Our only hard and fast rule about submissions is that it must be relevant to the Middlebury College community.” Last week’s topics included an ...
Election season is over at Middlebury, and for the students who do not vote, which is the majority of those at Middlebury, this might not mean that much. Do we even know what the Community Council Co-Chair and Student Government Association (SGA) President do, or what they are in charge of? Those who ...
“Little competes with the last six months — the political world has changed,” David Sanger, the chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times, explained to a large Middlebury audience in his powerful lecture titled “Wikileaks and the Toppling of Middle East Dictators: Covering the Winter ...