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What I Learned from Taking Honors Variant, Honors Module, and Honors Topic Courses in the Same Semester
As every Honors student knows, each semester brings a renewed focus on getting their courses of intention. After completing the freshman Honors curriculum, students still need to obtain an additional nine credits from Honors courses. Students who did not enter the Honors College as a freshman need more credits still.
Recognizing Indigenous History Through Film
Every October, the second Monday of the month is Indigenous Peoples Day, which honors Native Americans and their stories. Virginia is home to seven state recognized indigenous tribes. It took 19 years for the development of federal legislation to provide acknowledgement to these tribes, finally gaining recognition in 2018.
Are the Recent Changes to the Honors Engagement System a Good Idea?
This semester, the Honors College has finally done away with the engagement point system, replacing the 25-point requirement with a new requirement for students to accrue five different experiences.
The Honors Guide to E-mailing Your Professor
So, you need to e-mail your professor. There are a couple reasons that this might have happened, and depending on which one applies to you, your approach is going to need to be a little bit different.
Double Majoring: How to Make It Happen
Fresh out of a medieval literature test, I have twenty pages to write for that night and one hundred pages of physiology notes to study over the next two days—on top of all my regular homework. I tell this to a student in my physiology class, who quickly responds, “I’d feel sorry for you, but you did this to yourself.”
How to Put Out Fires: The Honors Guide to Catastrophic Failure
Sometimes in life, it feels like everything has been rigged against you. You’re trying your best, but your best just isn’t enough to get ahead when there are a thousand things outside of your control dragging you down.
What I’ve Gained from Le Monde (And Why You Should Write for It Too)
After two semesters as Editor-In-Chief Le Monde, one of my main takeaways has been that it is hard work to encourage people to write 500 words instead of simply sitting in a room for an hour for a Berglund seminar.
