Faculty and students constantly advocate breaking the so-called “Middlebury bubble” and exploring life outside the confines of the Middlebury College campus. The Environmental Studies Senior Seminar class (ES0401) is a course that every fall requires seniors in the Environmental Studies (ES) major ...
We live in a world often starved for touch. There are occasions that are generally acceptable: a hug between friends (or a kiss, depending), a handshake between acquaintances. And then there are the more specialized times when we make contact — in football tackles, rugby scrums, bar fights, in ...
I am really impressed with my friends. To be more specific, I would say that I am impressed with the grace with which they carry themselves through the sometimes ungraceful. It is a constant reminder of the power we have to choose: to choose to walk with your chin up high, to strap on a pair of heels, ...
As she walked down Main St. in Middlebury during a lunch break four years ago, Barbara Harding saw a ‘For Sale’ sign in the window of Otter Creek Used Books. She opened the door, walked down the wide stairs and immediately began negotiating a price. Within the month, the store was hers. “I ...
During February break, a new group of students was moving in. The class of 2014.5 began orientation on Feb. 2 and to help with their transitions, a group of older Febs worked as their orientation leaders. Planning the week’s activities began early. “[Everyone] had weekly two-hour-long training ...
While trying to decide how to write A Valentine’s Day Column (yes, all of those words are capitalized), I turned to my foremothers in Features column-writing for inspiration. There is the route of writing about how frustrated you are with the campus dating scene while lifting up the wonderful, talented ...
Life is really just one big story, and no one seems to understand this more than Bianca Giaever ’12.5. Giaever is an independent scholar at Middlebury with a self-designed major: narrative studies. “I’m basically majoring in stories,” said Giaever. “I could hear my dad rolling his eyes ...
A remarkable number of metaphors for an improved understanding of the world involve physical expansion. Whether an opening of eyes, broadening of horizons, or widening of perspective, it seems that figurative growth is an integral part of a worthwhile experience. Through their Februrary Middlebury Alternative ...
Valentine’s Day is coming up — don’t everyone get excited at once. In all honesty, though, I do get excited for Valentine’s Day, and not because Valentine’s Day has even gone well for me historically. There was that time in seventh grade when I had the flu but I sent in valentines for all ...
When the following students decided to lead Winter Term workshops for the first time, the decision was sometimes less than self-assured, tempered by apprehension about the daunting task of instructing one’s peers. Halfway through the experience, when asked what advice they would offer those contemplating ...
Natty Smith ’10.5 had just returned from a weekend camping trip in the Green Mountains’ Bristol Cliffs when I interviewed him on Sunday. With three of his friends, Smith had snow-shoed up and skied back down, having carried their skis on their packs. But while Smith describes himself as “on ...
If you make your way over to Johnson Lounge, you might be surprised at what you’ll find. This month, the Winter Term class “Vermont Waters” has taken over the lounge and converted into a boat-building workshop, where they are building reproductions of two historic boats from the Lake Champlain ...
Last year, when The Hunt failed to generate enough enthusiasm from students to be carried out, The Campus wrote that it would take “some strong-willed, resourceful, inventive underclassmen to get the ball rolling again.” But when the time came this January to boost interest and organize the Hunt, ...
Do me a favor. Take a moment, wherever you are, to take stock of your body. It’s a beautiful thing, isn’t it? Skin over muscle over bone, tendons thrumming like strings, the blood rushing through veins — the human body is a gorgeous, complex, intricate bit of architecture, a construction that ...
So it’s J-term. After months of three, four or even five classes, we’ve arrived at our favorite month of the year. In order to help our readers get the most out of the next three weeks, we’ve compiled assorted activities on and off campus that we hope will get you thinking about the possibilities. ...
A large crowd gathered on Wednesday, Jan. 5 in the Robert A. Jones Conference Room to hear a selected panel of knowledgeable sources address the recent controversy over Wikileaks. Wikileaks is an international non-profit media organization headed by Australian activist Julian Assange that publishes ...
During Winter term, the only politics Middlebury students deal with might be at which dining hall to eat and with whom to catch a ride to the Snow Bowl. Indeed, the organic meals and snow-covered quads can seem awfully far away from the partisan political scene of Washington, D.C. But Jeffrey Garofano ...
Next to the orange and banana, apples are one of the most ubiquitous fruit. When all other fruits seem to come and go, depending on where you are (like airports or fast-food restaurants), the apple seems like a reliable friend, always there when needed. Perhaps one of the major reasons why apples are ...
Winter Term To-Do List: Ski. Sleep. Study. Catch up on Modern Family. Dance party at ADP. And “Power Down.” Middlebury’s famous Winter Term, sometimes known as “Yay-Term” or “Play- Term,” gives students the chance to relax between the rigorous fall and spring semesters and enjoy the ...
Happy 2011, readers. May the new year bring a new start and new opportunities to love. It seems to be a January tradition to make lists: lists of new year’s resolutions, lists of the top 10 of everything from 2010, lists of what was “in” in 2010 compared to what is now “in” in 2011. I read ...