So, I have to tell you all about this awesome class I’m taking: Honors Literature and Civilizations II. This class proves the power of the professor. Professor Dan Williams (DW) is one of the most interesting guys I have ever met, and he makes this class. Let me drop some knowledge bombs on all of [...]

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. [...]

Our professor asked us, “What do you know about this class?”After all the anticipation and lengthy discussions the group of us honors students had prior to this class, the only sentence we could string together to call a response was, “We…get to give away money?” Though we are honors students, we too fall short of [...]

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 [...]

When I got my invitation to join the honors college in January of 2011, I also received an invitation to attend Honors Frog Camp Rome. I had already enrolled in the challenge camp, and didn’t think that it would make sense to change since flights were already booked and I was going to orientation at [...]