Everybody is always saying how hard freshman year of college is, how different it is from high school, how broke you will feel and how stressed you will be. All of these things are true, but nobody ever really tells you how to deal with all of this new stress. On the University of Wisconsin-Madison Read More…
Category: Student Life
The F Words
Faith and Friends. As an incoming freshman, these are two areas of life that will change quite a bit beginning the moment you first step onto Campus. The Badger Cru organization provides avenues to tackle both of those concepts. Let’s look at faith first. As most people go through life they come to have Read More…
Engage politically at UW-Madison!
When entering a school as large as UW-Madison, new students may have a hard time finding a community of likeminded individuals. Luckily, our school hosts quite a few student run political organizations, which are curated by the university. For many students, these groups serve primarily as a place to meet new people of similar mindsets. Read More…
5 Ways to Avoid the “Freshman 15”
As an upperclassmen who has previously experienced the Freshman 15, I can concur that it is in fact real. Not real in the way that all freshman gain weight, but real in that the weight gained freshman year by most students is exactly the number 15. Shaving those pounds off becomes even harder when you Read More…
Fight On For Her Fame!
Welcome incoming freshmen, to the University of Wisconsin! Here at Wisconsin we have a tradition of winning in sports. In our two biggest sports, football and basketball, we consistently finish in the top 25 of the national rankings and have other sports that dominate their respective fields as well. Now that you chose to come Read More…
Club Sports: A Great Way To Get Involved On Campus!
For many incoming freshman, making new friends and getting involved on campus can seem like a daunting task. Luckily, there are so many clubs and student organizations here at UW-Madison that make it easy to find your niche. If you played sports in high school, the club sports teams on campus are a great place Read More…
For the Health Nut or Foodie on a Budget
Slow Food, is an international organization that promotes “good, clean and fair food for all.” UW’S chapter of Slow Food is a non-profit student run organization focusing on locally sourced, sustainable food. Students can choose to be very involved or minimally involved with the range of opportunities within the organization. There are semester internship programs or Read More…
Sellery 8A: A Place To Live and Learn
Freshman year, a time for learning to do your own laundry, becoming friends with people that haven’t known you since the age of 6 and finding hacks in the dining center; all things that can be daunting when you are going it alone. Lucky for me, I found a community of my own on the Read More…
Are you a female in the communications field? There’s a club for you!
Writing is something that I’ve always loved to do. Whether it be writing essays for classes or writing in my journal, I have found that it is the best way to express thoughts. Because of my passion for writing, I have always known that I wanted to go into the field of communications/journalism. But when Read More…
How to make your first year NOT worth remembering
Apparently, not everyone wants a typical active great college life. For people like me, all we need is sleep peace, funny stories and memes mental joy, and some “private time”. I am not the material to be famous, so I know the best way to have my first year easily forgot. 1. Spend your time with Read More…