Dr. Pitcock traditionally takes the students in his Honors Cultural Memory II class on a trip to a unique destination during Spring Break. In the past he has gone to New York City and Hawaii. This year the selected destination was Boston! Eight girls in his class signed up this year to learn a little [...]

Last night a party was held in Milton Daniel Honors Dorm for prospective students. My RA Laura and I went on an expedition to scout nervous, incoming freshman, intimidate them a little with our college student awesomeness, and steal food from their fancy, catered buffet. Before we could get to the line, however, we spotted [...]

An official countdown until the John V. Roach Honors College sends its fourth group of sophomores-to-be on a three-week excursion through Europe.  Dr. Pitcock will lead the Cultural Routes 4 trip, which will begin in Berlin on May 17 and continue to Munich, Interlaken, Cinque Terra, Florence, and Rome until its conclusion on June 9. [...]

Today, 14 JVR freshmen are sitting in their classrooms, watching the rainy skies, wishing they were 5,000 miles away. Okay, so there might be more than 14, but the 14 I’m thinking of are this year’s Cultural Routes members, for whom this dream will become a reality in just a few months. This year’s Cultural [...]

Many of us have probably seen the trailer for the upcoming movie Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. A synopsis from the official theatrical website describes the production as a story that unfolds from inside the young mind of Oskar Schell, an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker whose discovery of a key in his deceased father’s [...]