April 2011 Blog Posts (171)

Best Buddies is a nonprofit organization that functions solely on volunteers. This program creates friendships between students and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.  This program has grown from one original chapter to more than 1,400 college, high school and middle school campuses across the country and internationally.

Elizabeth Smith, a sophomore at Auburn…

Auburn University, like many big traditional universities in the US, has many traditions that are adopted by their students and revered. You probably know about some of the major traditions here at Auburn like rolling Toomer’s Trees, letting the Eagle fly before kick-off at football games and Tigerwalk to name a few but one tradition that goes pretty unknown until you attend the school is the Alpha Psi Rodeo. 

To give you some perspective my mother went to Auburn from 1979-1983…

Today I received the best gift I have received in a very long time. A friend had made our recent Sicily trip photos into a coffee table, deluxe sized hard cover book. It brought the whole trip alive with photos of foods we ate, the small villages we visited, the fields and mountains we viewed.

There are many…

Auburn family, read this inspiring blog reaction to the recent tornado devastation:



Alabama, let's get the sleeves rolled up

AU's official page about Auburn Relief Efforts

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Students and parents alike are making plans for summer vacations. However, why not start thinking about Christmas or next year's big vacation? For 2011 and 2012 graduates saving money for that big celebratory vacation before jumping into the adult professional world of work may be part of their plan.

Following are…

Many think of English class as a burden. For some, reading and discussing classical literature and poetry is a very enjoyable way to pass the time. Some people really enjoy writing. But the questions remains, how will any of this translate into a job some day. Well, the Auburn University Department of English has it laid out for you, and they make a solid case.

According to the English Department’s website, “to major or minor in English Studies is to pursue some of the most vital…

Parents can often be found buying doctors kits, plastic stethoscopes, and little white lab coats. Many dream that their child may grow out of the mock outfits and doctor’s kits to put on a real white lab coat and obtain a degree with an M.D. at the end of their name.

In large part this ambition often does not become a reality.…

Every year during football season, Auburn students donate to the Beat Bama Food Drive. Donations are given to the East Alabama Food Bank to help fight hunger and give food to people in need.



The goal is seemingly to beat the University of Alabama in donations, but Auburn students are ultimately beating hunger. It's a great cause that is also motivated by…

"I believe in work, hard work."

Many students know this line of George Petrie's Auburn Creed, but Kelsey Smith, a junior in Nursing, actually lives it. 

Smith and other nursing students at Auburn not only take a full course load, but they also work eight hour shifts twice a week at local…

Late nights in Auburn often end with a visit to Momma Goldberg’s Deli where a wide selection of steamed sandwiches, salads and their famous nachos can please any college students’ taste buds.

Momma G’s, as the regulars call it, opened its original location in 1976. Since then, three other locations have been opened in the Auburn area.…

Mention the word "accountancy" and people immediately think of figures, numbers, adding, subtracting and big lined books. Typically, “exciting” and “fast paced” aren’t phrases that come to mind when people think about this element of business. In fact, if there is one thing that most business students are afraid of or tend to avoid, it’s accounting.

This word, however, isn’t one that intimidates Hannah Walker, a junior accounting major at Auburn University.…

Downtown Auburn provides a wide variety of restaurants.  On one side of College Street you can get a burger at Five Guys and walk across the street and grab Chinese food.

Camus dining does provide students with many choices and is convenient for using the money on tiger cards.  However, the food downtown allows for a nice change of scenery and choices.

After football games is a prime example of change in scenery, especially after a…

Like many others, Christen Holmes will be walking across the stage to receive her diploma on May 9. The 22-year-old describes her feelings about graduating and discusses her future plans. In typical senior fashion, she reminisces about her time at Auburn, the place that has become home, and her transition into the "scary real world."

Q. What is your major and what have you enjoyed most about it?

 

A. My…

If students ever dare wander down to the depths of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library and follow the smell of energy drinks and freshly printed oversized paper, they will find themselves standing in the Media and Digital Resource Lab (MDRL). This high-tech land of Macintosh and Personal Computers houses…