All Blog Posts Tagged 'student' (42)

Everyone loves having a dog growing up at home. That wagging tail and wet nose will cheer you up no matter how rough your day has been, but is it a good idea to bring your dog to college? Dogs come with many expenses and responsibilities that cannot be avoided. They also limit where you can live when you start your four years of school.

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Working for the Auburn Circle is a lot like going on a treasure hunt. Editors spend each semester searching through countless submissions of art, creative writing and photography to find the perfect pieces of student artwork to publish in the biannual magazine.

This year, the Auburn Circle staff and featured artists’ hard work paid off.…

When dealing with travel there is one undisputed law you need to follow: "Foresight teaches gently, error teaches brutally".  Basically, learn from others mistakes. You can loose so much time and money by not knowing the right information before making your trip. It doesn't matter where you are going, someone has…

Now that we are out of mom and dad’s house there are fewer home cooked meals and potentially more fast food. Additionally, a college student’s schedule leaves little time for physical activity most weeks. These factors are all major contributors to weight gain in college students.

Don’t fret; there are several ways to prevent our overwhelming schedules from bringing us down and blowing us up! By making time for physical activity and fitness we can maintain a healthy weight, lifestyle…

For many students at Auburn, there was no choice when it came to deciding where to attend college. Either Mom or Dad went here, or maybe another relative...either way, orange and blue was running through veins before one could even say, "War Eagle!"

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Others have a much different story. From first-generation college students to…

With a population of a little over 47 million, Spain is home to Madrid, a fast-paced city that Alvaro Lopez Pajares calls home.

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Pajares, 22, is a graduate student at Auburn, and moved to the area four months ago. “I knew no one when I moved, and my parents were nervous about me leaving Europe,” Pajares said. “But they knew this was an…

The buzz of Auburn University’s new fitness facility is almost as big as that of our upcoming Spring Break. While one evokes feelings of fun, the other elicits fatigue. But as we draw nearer to March, both are unified through students’ hopes of having an enviable beach body!

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“A lot of students come in two months before,…

When we think of modeling, we picture thin, pretty girls posing for pictures. However, Auburn University Modeling Board strives to be an organization that goes against these common beliefs.

The purpose of Modeling Board is to give students the opportunity to become models for retail stores around Auburn such as Dillard’s, Amore, Behind the Glass and many more. This experience gives the students an opportunity to develop a hobby or be noticed for a possible career in…

Photo shoots, models and Johnny Depp. These are a few things most students can’t say are part of their daily life. For Sarah Winford, an apparel design and production management major, it was a surreal reality.

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Winford lived in Los Angeles this past summer to complete her internship required to graduate.

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Campus Kitchens is an organization fighting hunger in the Auburn Community. The program helps with cutting down food waste on campus while helping serve the hungry in the Auburn area. “People always think hunger is a global issue when in reality its an issue in our own community,” president Emily Scammell said.

The Campus Kitchens Project is a national organization and leader in future hunger relief.  The program came to Auburn about three years ago. Campus…

Bow ties are back in style thanks to Lorenzo Lane, an Auburn University marketing and international business graduate.

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Lane has gone on to create his own bow tie company, L. Bow Ties.

L. Bow Ties does not offer just any regular bow ties, but one-of-a-kind options that are handmade from Lane himself.

“I try to set apart my…

Mary Kay Cosmetics, Cosmopolitan and Seventeen Magazine combined forces to take over Auburn University’s campus Tuesday, Oct. 2 with their “Fall Into Your Beauty” college tour. The student center was the location for this event.

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Girls who attended the event received a free…

Interaction, networking, community; these tenets have and forever will be the nucleus of higher education. Without these connections, the college experience quickly becomes rote and dreadful.

 

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AUInvolved is a new online system from the Auburn Office of Student Involvement that makes it easier than ever for students to…

Passion, time commitment and a good eye are just a few things it takes to be a successful interior design student. Emily Koelle, a junior at Auburn University, is pursuing her dream to become an interior designer.

A recent transfer student, Koelle is working diligently to find her niche in Auburn. Although her designer journey began more than 900 miles away at…

Phil Okerberg, a Huntsville native, is in the pre-veterinarian animal science program while doing his undergraduate studies in the college of agriculture. Although Okerberg has always had a love for animals, his journey to becoming a veterinarian started with a job seven years ago. 

“When I was in high school my mother worked at a small animal…

Auburn University is known for its football team. The Auburn Christian Student Center (ACSC) is known for its intramural football teams and their willingness to include anyone who wants to play on their teams. 

According to Matt Snow, a senior at Auburn University and a captain of an ACSC intramural football team, the idea of making random teams out of the pool of students who would like to play intramurals but do not have a team to…

Auburn Alumni Blogger Series continues with 10 new bloggers.  You'll find Foodies with great recipes to jewelry and fashion creators.  We also have a student just back from a study abroad trip to Europe and Auburn's real-life student fashionista. There's more, too.

These students and alumni choose to write for…

Blogging by alumni (and students) has reached a level unseen in the early days of social media.  This series introduces you to alumni and students that self-publish for pleasure or business.  We have 10 more bloggers, yet to come. | Read the entire series of Auburn alumni and student bloggers inside.…

Laura Beth Guglielmi is a junior at Auburn University who is majoring in Agriculture Business and Economics. Agriculture is a major that requires a lot of interest in the field.



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“I went into agriculture because my whole family has always been involved in it. My grandpa grew up growing cotton on his farm and has always been involved in…

Studying and working, working and studying. For decades, college students across the nation have learned to balance going to school while working part-time.

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Auburn University provides students with ample opportunities to work whether it is on campus or off campus. How do student-workers find time to go to class,…