by Caleb Bednarski | Nov 25, 2014 | Admissions
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,...
by Elizabeth Meinders | Nov 14, 2014 | Admissions
You don’t see it, but this blog is built with computer code. So is Facebook and Hulu and D2L. Every day you are using hypertext markup language (HTML) and cascading style sheets (CSS) but do you have any idea how they work? Steve Jobs once said that “I think everybody...
by Elizabeth Doyle | Nov 6, 2014 | Admissions
When I registered for classes back in June, I was pretty pleased with my schedule for my first semester. After Orientation Week, however, I realized that I wasn’t ready for my Intro to Public Speaking class. Even though it interested me (and is required), I...
by Caleb Bednarski | Sep 30, 2014 | Admissions
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...
by Rachel Adam | Sep 9, 2014 | Admissions
For the average WSU student, coming to Winona State University wasn’t that long of a trek or much of a difference culturally. Well, for me it was the biggest change of my life. My name is Rachel and I am originally from Danbury, Connecticut. You’re probably thinking,...
by Elizabeth Meinders | Aug 5, 2014 | Admissions, Campus Life, Residence Life
You are standing in front of your bedroom closet, then you turn to look at your desk covered in papers and knickknacks and the walls hung with photos and posters before glancing across the floor that is strewn with random objects you had forgotten you even owned but...
