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What I wish I knew as a freshman
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What I wish I knew as a freshman

Are you scared to walk into the dining hall without first sending a text to your dorm group chat asking, “Hey, where y’all at?!” Are you suffering from pre-class anxiety and under-caffeination? Have you just finished learning how to do your first load of laundry? Well, you may be suffering from “First Semester Freshman Disorder.”...

SATIRE: Chapel wedding reservations full for next 10 years
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SATIRE: Chapel wedding reservations full for next 10 years

When Christ Chapel began taking reservations for wedding ceremonies Wednesday, its schedule filled up for the first 10 years in a matter of minutes. The long-awaited $28.6-million chapel that took four years to fundraise was paid off in less than four minutes, after the chapel’s website went live at 7 a.m. Wednesday. More than 1,500...

SATIRE: Non-sectarian ministry major added to curriculum: Third wheels to Ring-by-Springers find home as ordained ministers
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SATIRE: Non-sectarian ministry major added to curriculum: Third wheels to Ring-by-Springers find home as ordained ministers

For three and a half years, Thor D. Weel felt like a third wheel to his best friend and his girlfriend, who began Hillsdating after spending three hours in Saga discussing how the characters from Oedipus resemble various characters from “Dr. Who.” But Wheel was determined to make third-wheeling relevant, and after his two best...

SATIRE: College Posts Job Listing for ‘Chapel Hunchback’
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SATIRE: College Posts Job Listing for ‘Chapel Hunchback’

In anticipation of the new Christ Chapel, Hillsdale College administrators said Thursday that they are looking for a dedicated student to serve as the full-time hunchback on the property. “This chapel is going to be big, and it’s going to be beautiful,” Hillsdale College President Parry Larnn said in campus-wide email. “But it’s truly incomplete...

SATIRE: Students urge administration, ‘tear down that fence!’
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SATIRE: Students urge administration, ‘tear down that fence!’

A group of students is petitioning college administrators to tear down the fence that was erected around the quad and the Ronald Reagan statue last month. The group argues the fence “unjustly divides campus” and bars students from “paying respect to the best president in American history.”    The group, which calls itself the ’89ers,...