As I keep saying and saying and saying, I started my first year here as an English and German double major–and stick with me, I’m going somewhere with this. I can actually pinpoint the moment in my first UW-Stevens Point German class where I began to think that while I loved the language, teaching it […]
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I’m currently in the last semester of my business degree and therefore am taking the capstone course for all business majors: Bus. 480. It’s reputation can be frightening; it is known to be difficult, time consuming, stressful, and cover a lot of topics you probably forgot about from all your degree requirements. Being almost done […]
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So the thing they never tell you about studying abroad is that you actually have to study sometimes … It’s rough. No, really it’s not too bad; I’m actually taking an Art and Architecture class and a Theatre class, and they’re both incredibly enlightening. You may think to yourself, “My, what’s that got to do […]
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A top executive from Sentry Insurance shared his “View from the Top” with more than 100 students from the UW-Stevens Point School of Business & Economics on Nov. 20. Jim Weishan, executive vice president and CIO at Sentry Insurance, oversees Sentry’s financial investments and its charitable foundation. He shared how he progressed through his career […]
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I’ve mentioned before that I’m involved in stuff. At the end of my last post I mentioned the importance of involvement with student organizations here on campus. I guess I realized as I continued to think about it that my feelings on the subject are more than what fits into a little blurb at […]
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At stronggggg advisal from my parents, I spent my first year of college at a two-year in the UW system, about a 15-minute drive from the town where I grew up, Slinger, Wis. I commuted in my beat-up old Dodge Neon and lived at home. I transferred to UW-Stevens Point for my sophomore year rather […]
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As I mentioned in blog #1, I am currently involved in an internship at a charity named emerge poverty free here in London. It has been an extremely interesting experience thus far, and I’d like to talk about it just a bit. First off, to be honest I was very nervous about this internship; I […]
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Hola chicos! Happy November! I hope everyone is getting ready and excited for the holiday season, I can’t believe we are already to that time of the year again. A year ago at this time I was getting ready to go to Spain, but I feel like it was just yesterday. This last year has […]
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Hi! My name’s Amy, and I’m an English and family & consumer sciences education double major (who really wishes she could pick up German as a third). I am going to graduate from UW-Stevens Point in December 2016. I really, really like education. A lot. A lotttt, apparently. (send help) I’m from Slinger. It’s a […]
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Hola chicos! Since it is around midterm time, I know everyone is probably a little more stressed than usual. I know I have been crazy stressed out lately for a variety a reasons and today I took a minute to try and think about what I typically do to relieve some stress. So here are […]
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