Choosing a College

Choosing a major is hard. Believe me I know. Informatics is actually my third declared college major! I changed my major my junior year when I came to IU (the main reason next year will be my 5th year!). I decided that I wasn't enjoying the classes I was taking for my current major, but I had not a...

    Storify by Chelsie Kasun Wed, Apr 10 2013     Losing Zeller and Oladipo Early "The Big Handsome" and Oladipo Decide to Enter NBA Draft After Second and Third Season   Victor Oladipo (#4) and Cody Zeller (#40) does anyone wanna jump off a cliff with me right now? seriously... #victor #cody #iubb...

Wow! Time has REALLY flown by! One day, I was just moving back to IU after an unusually hot and dry summer, and next thing I know, I'm working on cases and papers galore at the end of my fourth college semester!  Here's a quick update on what's happened during my year: Marching Hundred This, when...

  So choosing a college can be an interesting venture, choosing a degree program a hassle. Life is full of tough choices so what makes us choose the way we do. A lot of factors tend to feed into that. One of the reasons why I chose to come to IU were a multitude of reasons. You may be asking...

  Hello Hoosiers,  Not sure that many of you really knew what has happened but we have recently lost one of our own. Keith Cash was the Chief of Police at the IU Bloomington Police Department. Today was a celebration of his life, it was held in the IU Auditorium. Many students, and student...

Going to a school with 42,000+ students sounds like it would be overwhelming. It sounds like you'd be just a tiny fish in a giant ocean and just one more face in the sea of humanity. Not the case. College is a time for discovering yourself and one of the benefits of going to a huge school like...

According to a recent poll by the American Institute for Economic Research, Bloomington (home of the Hoosiers) is considered the 16th best college town in the nation. Now don't get me wrong, that's a respectable ranking; but the college towns selected before Bloomington are what upset me. For...

E.E. Cummings once wrote, "Be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else. It means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."  I was reading one of the other blogs that was written by Chelsie and I...

Hello new Hoosiers! First of all, let me welcome you to the family! You've made a great decision! I'm a moderator for the new IU Facebook group for admitted students and many of you have asked about what to do when it comes to choosing a roommate. Should I go random or room with a friend? Well, I...

The Roommate Scene at Indiana University If you didn't already know or haven't heard, IU is huge. That can be inviting or intimidating for some. I understand that completely. My roommate graduated from high school with a class size of 1000+ from a suburban school near Chicago whereas I graduated...