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"We think we can offer you the ultimate in experiential travel."
Howard Dean
Moving off campus is both a blessing to your bank account and to your stomach. And while the process of finding the right apartment, filling out lease agreements and getting on the mile-long waiting lists of some buildings can be pesky and annoying, in the end, your parents will thank you.
There's probably no night club experience comparable to D.C.'s Club Air, located in the courtyard of the Ronald Regan Federal Building and International Trade Center. If being surrounded on all sides by 50-foot Georgian-style marble columns, multiple fully-stocked bars and D.C.'s hippest party-goers isn't enough to amaze you, then the food at Air's gourmet grill certainly will.
The first three months of life as a freshman can be compared to riding Cedar Point's Millenium Force or Six Flags' Freefall repeatedly after a Chili's all-you-can-eat buffet. Truthfully, between drinking, classes, drinking, eating at Terrace and trying to make it to class, even the most hardcore student will have at least one breakdown in her immune system. That's why it's so important for everyone get to know the friendly staff at the Student Health and Wellness Center (SHWC). They have information on whatever rash, cough, uncomfortable feeling or strange ailment you've, eh hem, somehow acquired, their help is confidential and they generously give out free condoms to all who walk in the door.
Three seniors and one Writing Seminars lecturer were awarded Fulbright scholarships shortly before commencement last May.
It's that time of year again -- the last three weeks of school when the Homewood campus actually becomes a modestly entertaining place to be, it's sunny and beautiful outside, and most students have more work than they can shake a stick at.
A bar near campus won't be serving beer with its munchies anymore.
Students from America's poorest families are vastly underrepresented at the nation's top universities, according to a recent study from the Educational Testing Service (ETS).
There are more than 20 colleges and universities in the Baltimore area alone. And according to various students surveyed, the interaction between Hopkins students and our closest neighbors -- i.e. Loyola College in Maryland, Towson University and the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) -- isn't terribly extensive. Yet, as is always the case with these surveys, it depends on whom you talk to.
Four-month leases for the Ivy Apartments are being offered by the Office of Student Housing in an effort to placate student needs until the building's demolition, set for early Jan. 2004. After the 12-unit Ivy Apartments and its surrounding buildings are torn down, new campus residences are predicted to accommodate up to 500 students.
Faculty advisors recently pulled the plug on financial and administrative support for a documentary on Hopkins student life after miscommunications between the project's organizers and their advisors.
Mathematician John Allen Paulos estimated the rate of people having sex per hour to be "about 15 million," in his March 1999 ABCNews column. That means there are approximately 250,000 people having sex every minute of every day. In the time it takes you to sit through a 50-minute IAP lecture, over 12 million people have done the deed.
A year following Sept. 11, many concerns about international security have changed the way study abroad programs deal with student safety in their particular host country. However, while policies have been modified and tightened in relation to specific international communities, there is not a sense of worry or anxiety present in the minds of some students here in the relatively calm realms of Western Europe. Gyula Csurgai, Academic Director of the School for International Training's (SIT) Geneva, Switzerland program provided some insight into the policy changes as well as the student and European attitudes towards international security post-Sept. 11.
First and foremost, let me tell you this: the phrase "easy class" at Hopkins is what my high school French teacher would call a "faux ami." In layman's terms, it's equivalent to a roommate who brings a pie home from his weekend with Aunt Peggy and declines to tell you that Aunt Peg's half blind and can't tell the difference between apples and pig's feet. Needless to say, you're happy because there's something besides ramen in the fridge, but after your ten minutes of blind contentment, you're left puking like a bastard, wishing you hadn't been so easily deceived.
Ahh, summer -- the long-awaited three months when the drain and drag of college life fades into an oblivion of sun, sand and good times. Yeah, I have heard of those elusive chimeras people refer to as "jobs" which everyone seems to want desperately, and I think students should reflect a little before requisitioning themselves to a sterile, "mole" breeding chem lab or the local Starbucks this summer. As much as good ole Hopkins has beaten into them a resolve to spend the summer working like mindless rats being tested with the latest Xenadrine supplements, students must realize that the time is fast approaching when that's ALL they'll be doing 11 months out of the year. However, I realize that there is a plethora of people who for various reasons will be taking classes and splicing DNA in the Baltimore area, so here are a few places where you can rejuvenate your chi (feng shui) and take the pasty glare off your skin.
Recently named Chairperson of the Commission on Undergraduate Education (CUE) Paula Burger has outlined her goals and a plan of action for the 30-person committee over the next three years. The system is based on divisionally-integrated, specialized issue-focused groups within the commission, as well as on inputs from students and professors.
After nine months and nearly 33,000 miles on the rough, unforgiving waters of the world, you can bet the sailors of the Volvo Ocean Race will be ready for a cold brew. On Sept. 23, eight top-of-the-line racing boats, with crews of about 12 men and women, a skipper and their "honorary 13th crew member" Bart Simpson on News Corporation set sail from Portsmouth, England. Lucky for us Baltimoreans, the world's premiere grand prix of sailing decided to end the sixth leg of its round-the-world race here, in the pristine waters of the Inner Harbor.
Acclaimed avant-garde filmmaker John Waters spoke in Levering Union Wednesday night, describing his long career in film, his life growing up in Baltimore and his lifelong desire to obliterate cultural standards of decency.
"Are you a bachelor or bachelorette looking for love?" You'll find this question on ABC's Web site, accompanying information about its new prime time television show, The Bachelor. The network is currently accepting applications for Bachelor II. This man will step in and star in the second "choose you mate" contest show after the first round is complete and current bachelor, Alex (a 31-year-old, Harvard and Stanford graduated who was born in Virginia and enjoys Balance Bars, swimming, skiing and The Simpsons) is married off.