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There is a typhoon raging outside my window right now.  The rain is darting sideways and the wind is blowing so hard it sounds like cars are racing by. Even with an umbrella, to go outside is to get soaked through.  Something is rattling violently, which is fairly disconcerting. This is just one...

Finally, the semester is over and summer has begun.  Nevermind that it is not technically summer yet, IU and I talked and we decided, screw Poor Richard and his Almanac, it's summer. Unlike the end of the fall semester, though, I moved out of my dorm for good yesterday.  Closing the door on my empty...

I'm having a major crisis right now.  And by that I mean, a crisis relating to my major.  As in, what if I don't want to study International Studies for the next three years?  As in, LOL #freshmanproblems.   After realizing that maybe International Studies isn't my calling, my first thought...

There is only one month left of my Freshman year of college.  One month.  At the rate things are going, I'll be struggling to find my dentures in no time.  I don't feel like a year has passed since I decided to come to IU, since I graduated high school, since I last had to wake up at 6 in the...

I'm going to be honest: all throughout high school, I was dead-set against going to IU.   Having gone to school in the Indianapolis area, half the people I knew came to IU.  I didn't want to do what everyone else did.  I wanted to go out of state, to a school with a fancy name and a fat price tag,...

As one of my friends put it, "IU has a thing for consent." Though this might sound weird, it's one of my favorite things about the University. What is consent?, you might be asking And why does IU have a "thing" for it? Well, according to Webster: con-sent (intransitive verb)- to give assent or...

Spring break is just a week away but that also means that midterms are much much closer. Sitting in the whatever-by-whatever confines of my dorm room, it occurs to me that I am most assuredly occupying a seat on the strugglebus. I need to study Economics and read about Korean Nationalism and...

So, some of you may be wondering why an International Studies major like me ended up in Bloomington, Indiana, a place most people in the international community would struggle to find on a map. I know it's true, you know it's true.  It's so true that when I was in Japan last summer, I told people I...

My name is Casey, and I am not a cat.  I am a Sophomore at IU majoring in Japanese and Political Science.  I don't even own a cat.  I'm sorry, but I don't have any cat videos.  If you want to read about what life at IU is like for a midwestern globetrotter with a bad case of sarcasm and a candy...