It takes practice to be good at anything. Writing is no exception, and often times students and faculty alike will have to keep working at their writing to be the best they can be, especially as language changes. As a society we can help each other grow in these areas. […]
Month: November 2018
International Education Week
COURTESY PHOTO It’s that time of year again, although it isn’t what we hoped for. Rainy day after rainy day, it’s honestly quite the mood killer. The semester is just about halfway done and the home stretch is here. It can be quite frustrating. Plymouth State University is hoping to […]
Opportunity Fair
This year’s Opportunity Fair will be held on Wednesday, November 7, from noon to 3pm in the Hartman Union Building Courtroom. Hosted by the Career Development Office, it is a bi-annual fair, taking place in the fall and spring semesters. Leslie Blakney, ’07, the new Director of Career Development, is excited […]
Do It In The Dark
As of October 15th, students living in residential halls began Plymouth State University’s annual competition to limit the consumption of energy. What you do in the dark is your personal business, but PSU’s Office of Environmental Sustainability (OES) wants you to work together to save energy during the “Do it […]
A Weekly Dose of Mindfulness with Meditation Mondays
Having passed the mid-term checkpoint of the semester already, many students may start to feel some burnout as they inch towards the end of the semester. Everybody is handling a full-plate and trying to keep their heads in the game through meticulous scheduling and long study sessions. If you feel […]
A Peek into the Spirit World: The Chair
There are many objects in this world that are said to link us to the spirit world. Ouija boards, the infamous Annabelle doll, and here at Plymouth State, we have the chair. The chair was brought to Plymouth State for when the Silver Center for the Arts ran the show, […]
Sharon McDermott’s Visit to Plymouth State
COURTESY PHOTO BRIAN MCDERMOTT Sharon McDermott is a recently published poet, who graced our campus with her presence last Thursday, October 25th. She came here to talk with some English classes, visit with her good friend Professor Ahl and to promote her new book, Life Without Furniture. McDermott is currently living in […]
Castle in the Clouds
Plymouth State’s School of Business has taken a great hold on their newly integrated Innovation and Entrepreneurship Cluster. For some background information, the university began implementing a new way of learning, which they call the Clusters Approach. This new approach to learning brings students and real-world businesses together through partnerships […]
Dracula in 10 Seconds
COURTESY OF JARED GENDRON
The Global Engagement Office
This semester, last fall, for the first time in my life, I stepped from a plane that departed from Boston, my home, and was spit out as far as I could have possibly gotten from my comfort zone. A kind cab driver from the airport dropped me off with my […]