When at first you don’t succeed, celebrate! Weird advice, I know, but when one opportunity does not work out, you never know what the next opportunity is going to be. Sometimes it will be even better than you imagined. Last fall I decided to apply for graduate schools, forgoing all […]
Sports
Questions mute spring hopes for Tigers team
The annual start of the Major League Baseball season – spring training – typically brings along with it a new reason to hope for every one of MLB’s 30 clubs. It also gives me and others a chance to get out of the funk – not the good kind that […]
SPB aims to provide fun
The Student Programming Board (SPB) plans so you can play. At least that’s what our next shirts will say – anything but those ugly, ghastly and (most of all) plain white shirts we have now with those old-fashioned school colors. Don’t get me wrong: Red and blue are nice but […]
MLK message still rings true today
BY GINEARA HANNAH VN GUEST COLUMNIST “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” – Martin Luther King, Jr. For the month of February, we celebrate Black History Month and every black leader, activist and inventor who has had an impact on us. […]
Spring break: time in Hawaii with family wins
In a couple days, I won’t be a lot of things. I won’t be cold. I won’t be worrying about classes or homework. I won’t be going to my internship. I won’t be in Detroit. I will be in the air. I will be over the Pacific Ocean. I will […]
Save the eyeballs for me
Jon Krause, a UDM graduate who is teaching English in China, writes on his experiences for The Varsity News. By Jon Krause VN SPECIAL WRITER “Surely, my mother wouldn't approve of this,” I thought to myself as I picked an avian toenail out of my teeth. She had […]
One UDM senior’s bucket list
Midterms are finally over and spring break is only a few days away. While many may be breathing a huge sigh of relief right about now, this part of the year is also a little bittersweet because we are now in the home stretch towards graduation. These past three-and-a-half years […]
Detroiters need to get over ‘my Chicago’
I consider myself an upbeat and open-minded person. But some things get under my skin far more than I’d like to admit and when they do, it’s not easy to block them out. A conversation a couple weeks ago at my internship downtown was a prime example of this. I […]
Breakneck pace and confusion add to frustrations for UDM grad teaching in China
UDM graduate Jon Krause is living and working in China. He is sharing his experiences through this column. By Jon Krause VN GUEST COLUMNIST Exhausted. Confused. Cranky. Scared. After a series of transports adding up to 18 hours of travel, I stepped outside into a world very unlike my own. […]
Cherish those close to you this Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is my thing. Well, any holiday where baking and decorating are involved is sort of my thing. But Valentine’s Day is my designated holiday. I mean, who doesn’t love love? More chocolate than we actually need and over-priced flowers that only last a day or so are just […]
