by Will Shine Success in higher education and life itself, as many of us came to believe, was contingent upon ‘good writing’—that is writing well (never good). When I was a freshman in college, I was required to take a writing-composition class. Now this wasn’t some sort of unique prerequisite for bad writers; unless you’d taken…
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by Morgan McArthur, biology GLA As an undergraduate engineering student, writing assignments always seemed like a chore to me. “Why should I spend a few hours writing when my equations show the results right here?” That line of thinking persisted until the final year of my undergraduate program when I was taking my senior design…
by Rebekah Marilyn Groth As an undergraduate student, I was never afraid to go knocking on professors’ doors during office hours. While I was always concerned that I was being a bother, I figured that’s what office hours are for, right? Showing up for office hours and reaching out for help was the best thing…