A Big City Guy in Small Town Life

When coming into college, you hear a lot fears about moving from a small town to a city. There are plenty stories in pop culture of scared Stewart Littles coming from a friendly, small town to the mean and nasty big city.  What you don’t normally think about, however,...

I’m On a Boat at WSU! Wait, What??

Hello and welcome back to another year in beautiful Winona. I spent the majority of my summer back home in Milwaukee completely isolated from Winona and any events that may have happened over our long break. I had little contact with the Winona community outside of my...

An Adventure Abroad

  On a normal day last semester, I was sitting next to my friend in Spanish class. But then my professor came in to the room and told us about an incredible travel study opportunity he was offering called the Camino De Santiago, a bike trip across the northern...

When Nature Calls

Hello all, and welcome to another year here in the great city of Winona. If you are a first year student here at WSU or if you have never heard of a window before (they’re a new invention, I would highly recommend that you check them out), you may not have...

Ball So Hard

  Now that Mother Nature has turned and finally decided to grace us with this pleasant weather, a friend of mine and I decided to pull the old running shoes out of their winter hibernation and hit the trails around the lake.  However, within the first mile, our...

Pizza, Ice Cream and Tears

If you are like me, you may have suddenly found yourself waste deep in midterms, projects, and snow. With spring break just out of reach and all signs of hope long gone, I was forced to face my reality and embrace the only option I had left … grab the phone,...

What a Woman!

Every year, without fail, everybody here in the lovely state of Minnesota run to their homes and cower in fear over the unwelcome presence of this angry, cynical woman. Wreaking havoc on our lives, she forces us into our homes and makes us bow down to her horrible...