I’m tired of writing for clicks. I’m tired of aggregating Tweets and writing blurbs about viral videos. I’m tired of monitoring Google Trends and scrolling through the latest hashtag and writing headlines around the most searchable keywords. But writing for clicks is what they pay me to do. The most difficult lesson I’ve learned during...
One of the greatest aspects of college life is the embrace of tradition. Those traditions come in varying forms, shades, colors, hues, and amounts of pride. Mascots, scarves, jackets, victory marches, alma maters. You’ve probably never met a graduate of Texas A&M or the University of Notre Dame without immediately knowing—because that person has probably...
The Hillsdale Collegian scored fifth-best college newspaper and Hillsdale students’ community-service involvement placed No. 4 in the nation in the Princeton Review’s latest annual Best 384 Colleges survey. A national survey of college students that collects data on everything from classroom value to student life, the Princeton Review’s 2019 ranking placed Hillsdale within the top...
When Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn asked Madi Moore, “What is prudence?” during her junior year, he was so pleased with her answer he told her she could be a professor of Aristotle. Now, as a 2018 graduate, Moore has taken on the position of executive assistant to the president in June, replacing Victoria Bergen,...
I was a freshman writing my first article assignment for The Collegian, gathering wisdom from those who had come before.When asking then-senior Jackson Bargenquast ’18 what he wished he knew as a freshman, a part of his answer surprised me: “Dress for the job you want, not the job you have.” Cliché, perhaps, but it...