Saher has some thoughts about the value of Honors freshman orientation.Amber introduces her family (including a great picture of her husband and her daughter).
Kortni explains why it's important to "keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
Ashley talks about the book Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom and what it teaches about wisdom and mortality.
Kari explains why openmindedness and critical thinking can make you an outcast.
Ruth talks about why some people hold on to their beliefs so hard that they refuse to see other perspectives.
Stephanie checks in to tell us a bit about studying in Scotland.
Kristiyan writes about making the journey from Bulgaria to Joplin.
April confesses that she's had more homework at MSSU after one week than she did in four years of high school. Ouch!
Netza defends the study of philosophy: "Philosophy is to be studied not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is posible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation."
Lesley is interested in Jacques Barzun's contention that professional success can actually narrow our intellectual horizons.
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