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Critical thinking: What is it? Are we getting enough?0
- Campus Life
- September 19, 2012
I’ll be honest: I had to Google what “critical thinking” meant before I began writing this article. It’s a term we’ve all heard, but most of us probably don’t know what it means. In the simplest of terms, critical thinking is “the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion.” I realize we pay an atrocious amount of tuition to
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What I know now: reflections on the first year of college 0
- Campus Life
- September 19, 2012
I have yet to master college. I’m two years and a month into my collegiate career, and I’m still trying to learn how to survive in an environment that is simultaneously foreign (Lancaster County) and home (Etown). With each semester that goes by, I feel as if I learn something more about myself and my
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Major Dilemma: pursue a passion or what will help obtain a better job?0
- Campus Life
- September 19, 2012
In the spring semester of my sophomore year at Elizabethtown College, I attended a “Tea at Three” program on migrant education. After the event, I spoke with the presenters about the dynamics of education in America. One of the individuals asked me what major I was pursuing and I responded that it was an English
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Housing issues caused by higher-than-expected retention 0
- News
- September 19, 2012
As Elizabethtown College students moved into their new homes for the semester, some took issue with their living situations. In addition, upperclassmen were encouraged to pursue off-campus housing and many were left in transitional rooms. “It is the upperclassmen retention numbers, not the size of the freshman class, causing the excess of students,” Allison Bridgeman,
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