hiking
Room for mushrooms
Mushroom hunting is one of my favorite pastimes. Correction, eating the mushrooms after I found them is one of my favorite pastimes. I haven’t been mushroom hunting in a few years, as the places I used to go haven’t been very fruitful. That means, sadly, that I haven’t had the pleasure of eating yummy, delicious [...]
Camping in February
I got to travel with the Geology Club to the Tallahassee, Fla., area this winter break, and even though the first three nights were a little too damp to be desired, camping with two pretty cool professors and 14 other awesome people was surely a lot of fun. Camping out in tents when a decent [...]
State Day, formal and secret grottos
This has been a week filled with more fun that I could have predicted. Last Saturday, the Indiana chapters of Sigma Chi had their State Day, and our chapter also had its formal. State Day is when all the chapters in the state meet together, usually on Butler University’s campus, and have various leadership and [...]
Hiking in Happy Valley
A few days ago, I was walking up Scenic Drive away from campus when I saw a sign that said “Trail head,” which was surprisingly hidden from the road, but I didn’t have enough time to investigate. The plan for today was to see what was back there. After class, my friend, Matt Wehner, and [...]
A Little Bit of Everything
When I write a blog, I generally try to find a common theme or idea that happened to me throughout the week and write with that as my framework. I’ve been lucky enough to have some sort of theme each week so far this year, but this week has just been all over the place. [...]
Sisterhood Retreat
It was bright and early — okay, early by college student standards — Saturday morning. At 10 a.m., all of the Chi Omegas gathered in our house’s basement, bundled in sweatshirts and fleeces. We were prepared for the first activity of our annual sisterhood retreat: a hike through Happy Valley. Hanover College is home to [...]
Easter Part II
While I had my Easter visitors, we couldn’t just stay inside the whole time so we took off Easter morning. My sister accompanied me and some friends to brunch while my mom packed up their stuff and prepared for the rest of the day. We ate colored eggs in the Campus Center, got purple dye [...]
A Beautiful Day in the Hanover Neighborhood
What do you do on one of the most gorgeous days of the year when you live on 650 acres of one of the most beautiful campuses in the nation? You hike the trails to Crowe Falls or The Point, you grab a smoothie from the Crowe Coffee Shoppe and go for a walk around [...]
Top 15 things to do when you're landlocked!
Once you’re done with your homework, it’s the weekend, you’re landlocked without your car, and you don’t know what to do… Do one of these things! Take a hike! There are so many amazing trails on this campus, so why not use them! One of the best things about the campus is just how pretty it [...]
