Every once in a while, I disappear to a place none of my friends have visited: Chile. Twenty-five years ago my dad, an American man named Tim, started working as a mining engineer in Tucson, Arizona. One weekend, he decided to vacation in Prague, in the Czech Republic A Chilean woman — Rosario — who...
Pat Cartier is a sophomore on the men’s basketball team from Brookfield, Wisconsin. What did the recruitment process look like when you came to Hillsdale? I first got recruited through a connection of my high school coach at Michigan Tech. A lot of times when one school recruits you, then the other schools in that...
“College is the best time of your life.” That’s what all of our parents told us before we came here. The message was simple: Savor the moments college, they will go by quickly. If only time could stop long enough for us to grasp this lesson. But it’s only when we are caught up in...
Fox News came to the City of Hillsdale, but it wasn’t in relation to the college. The news channel came to see a family-owned electric terminal business, Hillsdale Terminals. It all started when Jim Condon, president of the company, received a call from Manufacturing Marvels, a two-minute segment that airs on Fox Business Channel every...
A pop-up photography museum taught me a simple lesson: Photos impress memories on our hearts. It’s only when we use them to impress people that they become too shallow to savor. In a basement in downtown Denver is the Instagram Selfie Museum. My mom and I strolled down a set of stairs and walked into...