Cowboy boots, Tolkien shirts, massive belt buckles, a sweet southern drawl — those were my first impressions of the man who would be my roommate sophomore year. He was no boring Michigander, but a character straight out of my imagination of the South. I came from a totally different direction: the barely-represented Northeast. I sported...
Few can say that their first job after college was with the Wall Street Journal. Just a few years after graduating, students who minored in journalism already applytheir Hillsdale education to their full-time jobs at news publications. I checked in with three recent graduates to see what they are doing now and how their time...
Buddy Moorehouse is an adjunct professor of video storytelling. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. What is your favorite dessert? Pineapple upside down cake. It’s got everything that you need. It’s sweet, it has texture, and it even has a little fruit in it so you don’t have to feel quite as...
Vika Nuñez and I started rooming together in the summer of 2019 when we both interned for the Marketing Department. We didn’t know each other super well at the time, but she had already trusted me with dying her hair red — and has several times since then. Some of my strongest memories from that...
Local sign language interpreter Susan Shirk once swore she would never work at schools or religious gatherings. Now, after doing both for decades, she said she couldn’t be happier. Shirk first encountered sign language while working at a residential care facility in college. “I was working a full time job at a residential facility for...