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Me and my family when they dropped me off in Wheaton for my freshman year of college.

This is my last…

By: katelynskyebennett 2016-09-242016-09-23

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Many college seniors count their “lasts” – the last chicken tender night at the cafeteria, the last general education classes they put off for three years, the last spring break road trip with the roomies, the long-awaited last set of finals. I do not know what collegiate lasts will most strike me, but I am…

Three things TCKs taught me not to take for granted

By: katelynskyebennett 2016-02-272016-02-27

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If you know international students or have friends who are third culture kids (TCKs), you know you can’t take anything for granted—not the terms or phrases you use, not your understanding of geographical knowledge and especially not your time spent together. Language. Catchphrases are cultural, so you may have to ask questions about what an…

Lessons from physics: how to glorify God in the new year

By: katelynskyebennett 2015-12-302015-12-31

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When I entered college, I already knew I wanted to take a couple specific courses: journalism, for one, and physics. “What?! Physics? Why would you take that? It’s crazy hard!” Yes, so I’ve been told. But at my liberal arts college, we’re required to take one lab science and one non-lab science. I had a bad…