All posts by Ellie Buenning
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Hey everyone!
Wow, things have been so crazy this past week. On Saturday and Sunday I had CLIMBucknell training, which was totally boss! Except for waking up in the wee morning hours, the entire two days was really nonstop fun. I met lots of cool people, played several entertaining games and got to play around outside.
CLIMBucknell is a sweet program. The school has a huge outdoor education facility in Cowen, Pa., that’s about six miles away from campus, with a huge climbing tower, high ropes course, low ropes course and a sweet lodge. I can’t wait until I am a certified “facilitron” so [...]
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Tags: CLIMBucknell, midterms, ropes course
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
Hello everyone!
My name is Ellie, I’m a first-year chemical engineer at Bucknell, and I’m fresh off the boat from Denver, Colorado. OK, maybe I didn’t take a boat here, but it definitely feels like I’ve found the New World–of college that is!
The transition from high school to college (and certainly from the Rocky Mountains to the East Coast!) was not exactly easy for me. In fact, most aspects of college life for me have been completely opposite to the ones I had been conditioned with by television and Hollywood. Yet, even though I wasn’t totally ready for all the change that came [...]
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Tags: exams, fitting in, freshman, friendship, orientation
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