Reality check: you will not be on this campus forever. When you drive up that hill as a wide-eyed first-year taking in the sight of the Gustie jungle and feeling the electric energy of everyone who is so excited to see you, your countdown begins to the day when all you’ve done here compresses itself into a 5” x 8” document that validates your status … Continue reading Your Time Here

If you’re a member of a student organization and tell anyone trying to join the organization they have to do anything, you run the risk of hazing them. At least this is what it seems like at a first glance of Gustavus Adolphus College’s hazing policy. Gustavus defines hazing as “any action taken or situation created, intentionally or unintentionally whether on or off campus premises, … Continue reading On Hazing

What is Christianity? Is it a doctrine of morals and ideals that we are to live by in order to live as good people and treat others fairly? Or is it a strict set of rules we must follow in order to obtain everlasting life, even at the cost of casting out “undesirables” whom we perceive to be sinners disobeying a code of laws supposedly … Continue reading Rejecting (Fundamental) Christianity

Procrastination is such a wonderful and terrible thing, all at the same time. On one hand, it can prevent you from doing homework and getting good grades. On the other hand, you get to watch Netflix, play video games, eat food, sleep, eat food, and watch more Netflix. Either way, procrastination can seem pretty great and allow you to have fun; which, don’t get me … Continue reading Quit Reading This Article and Get Back to Work

In the springtime, people walk outside and say that love, life, or some other abstract concept is floating around in the air. You can take a giant sniff and notice it; it permeates the air we breath like a fragrance, or a pheromone. So it logically follows that in the autumn, the thing you smell floating around is something—at its core—fundamentally the opposite of love, … Continue reading Death is in the Air

Consider these two imaginary Gusties: Abby is a religion major. She loves her World’s Religions class and loves inter-religious discussions. She doesn’t know what kind of job she will have after college, but she’s okay with that. She is content knowing that her future job is not dictating what she will major in. Joe is going pre-med. So far he has gotten all A’s even … Continue reading Who am I, what’s my vocation, and where can I find it?

On Aug. 31, 2014 there was a leak of nearly 200 private celebrity photos from iCloud that revealed quite a bit more of celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, and Kaley Cuoco than the individuals would have liked for the public to have access to. Many sites that initially hosted the photos took them down, but not after thousands if not hundreds of thousands of … Continue reading The Real Problem With “The Fappening”: Don’t just Glase over it

The past few months have been revolutionary for Ukraine. From protests to revolution, the nation appears to be as tumultuous as ever. Seemingly unable to catch a break, it has since been forced into the largest crisis it has faced since it gained independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It began relatively simply with large protests in Kiev’s Independence square, fuelled by anger … Continue reading Crisis in the Ukraine: Don’t get mad, get Glad

One thing I love about being a pshychological science major, is analyzing people. I am not a psychologist yet, but there are few things I enjoy more than finding the common ties between groups, subgroups, and individuals on campus and in my life and trying to figure out why things are the way they are. One thing that I have noticed ties the majority of … Continue reading Power is in the eye of the Beholder: Just in the Nikk of Time