The Hoosier Life

Welcome to Aaron Olson's blog! I'm currently a sophomore studying Public & Nonprofit Management in SPEA and cannot believe that I am almost in my junior year. Next fall I will be a part of the Washington Leadership Program where I will be interning (place to be determined) and taking classes in D.C....

  I am going to start this blog post off with several apologies. First, I apologize to the Assistant Director of New Student Orientation at IU Dan Murphy who asked me to write this post about 3 months ago…oops. Second, to We Are IU for not writing all summer. And finally to everyone who likes to...

"We might have all come individually, but we'll leave collectively." ~ Tom Crean on the 2012 IU Basketball senior class. I realize that when coach Crean made this statement during his pregame senior night speech this year, he was speaking to the basketball team specifically. However, it seems a very...

The title of this blog post seems to be a recurring theme in text messages that I've received since coming to IU. If you are an incoming student, it's hard to think about, but the truth is you will most likely be making an entirely new group of friends once you come to college. And for me, I've made...

13. Ok, this one is just for fun but having such terrible luck for so long would only suggest that it would be fitting to bring home the hardware in the unluckiest of years, 2013. 12. Remy Abell and Derek Elston. Two guys who may seem to be overshadowed by the #movement but I think will step up...

Little 5 is the "greatest college party weekend in the world", right? Wrong. Little 5 is the "greatest COLLEGE weekend in the world". Now I'm not saying that their isn't time to have fun, but Little 5 is so much more than the party. If I could do one thing over so far in my time at IU it would be...

I was browsing the Twitterverse on Selection Sunday after the Hoosiers found out they would be a 4 seed to see what my Indiana University family thought about the tournament. Aside from the usual "Go Hoosiers!", one of my followers tweeted a list of the different places across the country that were...