An hour before sunrise on Monday, seniors and credit-wealthy juniors will roll out of their beds, load WebAdvisor, and stare at their computer screens until the clock slips from 6:59 to 7 a.m. After they click the SUBMIT button, they’ll conclude the ritual by staring bug-eyed at the screen until, no, the webpage does not...
Peyton Bowen is a senior from Santa Clarita, California. She is majoring in politics and is a member of the Hillsdale College swim team. When did you start swimming competitively? About 14 years ago, when I was 8. Why got you started in swimming? Basically, I was so uncoordinated that I couldn’t do any other...
Johann Sebastian Bach starts each of his hundreds of fugues the same way: The master composer beckons forth a simple strain of melody before he recapitulates the original tune. From there, he introduces a countermelody, piles on new textures and styles, and reverses the original order of the notes. It all culminates in glorious counterpoint...
Hiking, climbing sand dunes, spending frigid nights in tents, and cooking food over a campfire may not be the most comfortable way to spend fall break — but for the 54 students who did, it was a restful change of pace from midterms and papers. “It was nice to kind of disconnect,” freshman Caroline...
