HooDoneIt: The Hoosier Perspective

For the past three years, Movement Exchange at IU has partnered with an organization called Movement Exchange. Each year, a small group of student volunteers has travelled to Panama during winter break to teach dance to orphans and at-risk youth. This experience fosters cross-cultural understanding,...

Although this semester is coming to a close and most students have already finished their exams, I thought I would compile a list of places I find conducive for productive studying.  Personally, I like to move to different locations throughout the semester because I find studying in the same spot...

So there's this feature on the WeAreIU blog that allows you to ask us to blog about a certain topic. Here's one that might be useful for current and future IU parents: What would you like to see in a care package from home? What are your all-time favorite things that you have either received, or...

I'm not a very political person but there are some key issues that are important to me and can be determined by the outcome of an election--especially one as big as the presidential election this year. In 2008 I wasn't old enough to vote but when I turned 18 I made sure to register in my hometown of...

When you become a Hoosier, Bloomington becomes your new home. And every year, the IU Alumni Association sponsors the IU Homecoming events to welcome all Hoosiers, new and old, back home for the school year. The schedule for this year's IU homecoming events included: Paint the Town Crimson Day...

For more than fifty years, Indiana University has been home to a collection of over 400,000 books, 100,000 pieces of sheet music, and more than 7.5 million manuscripts. These rare and sometimes very, very old documents are magnificent pieces of history that anyone can see at the Lilly Library,...

When it comes to safety on any college campus, there are a lot of concerns that should be addressed. In order to have the best possible experience here at IU, there are some issues you might want to keep in mind. IU has a great initiative called the Street Smart Party Animals, but I've also come up...

My name is Lindsay Stone and I am currently a sophomore here at Indiana University. I'm double majoring in Speech and Hearing Sciences and Psychology, and hoping to get a minor in Spanish. My goal is to become a speech-language pathologist which involves working with children who have some sort of...

Getting involved on a campus as large as Indiana University can be challenging and sometimes a bit overwhelming. There are so many students from all over the world with a variety of interests they have chosen to pursue at IU, and it is difficult to pick and choose from so many unique student...

Hello everyone! Welcome back (or welcome for the first time) to IU! This summer was wonderful but also very, very busy for me. Instead of setting off on vacation at the end of the spring semester, I went right into six more weeks of summer classes. At first I was a bit disappointed that I wouldn't...