As finals week approaches and the panic of possible bad grades sets in, students are hitting the books. Something that might ease the stress of finals would be Dead Week, a week of utter nothingness on campus, giving students the peace and quiet they need to study and work on their final papers and projects. Read More
Written by Dylan Doyle, contributing writer University professors: worry not, I come in peace. However, we need to have an honest chat about grading and class difficulty. Let’s get the ugly truth out of the way first: some classes are too hard and others too easy. This isn’t always your fault. After all, most of Read More
Column by Connor Jaschen, Editor-in-chief In the future, we will all be, in a sense, Uber drivers. Companies provide a way to get goods or services to consumers, and that’s it. That sometimes gets lost in the world of corporate America, where every company has a human resources department, accountants and lawyers – only then Read More
Column by Tyler Anderson, Opinion Editor It is your first year on campus and you are ready to take on the world. You are prepared for your classes, nailing all your exams and revelling in your newfound freedom. Through old friends and new classmates you have started branching out and exploring what the world has Read More
Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor It was a brisk day in April. Not a high school senior and not yet a college freshmen, 18-year-old Allison Borthwick scampered into a computer lab in the Arthur J. Bauernfeind College of Business to register for her very first semester of classes at Murray State. It was Summer Orientation Read More
Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor Have you ever thought about how weird college is? I’m a very weird person, and even I’m aware of how weird everything about college is. And I don’t mean “weird” as in “lol sometimes I wear mismatched socks and don’t care how my hair looks because I’m QUIRKY.” No – I’m Read More
Column by Robert Valentine, Senior lecturer of advertising. Welcome to Week One of the 92nd year of Fun and Required Attendance in Murray, the Friendliest Town in Calloway County. The first classes held at Murray Normal School were actually held at the city High School on Main Street on Sept. 24, 1923. When President J. W. Carr arrived Read More
Preparing for a job can take a student four to five years of coursework, however, outside of that coursework one of the most popular ways students prepare is through participating in internships. With deadlines approaching as soon as next month, there are many different ways to prepare for an internship opportunity and to stand out Read More