It is an unfortunate fact of life that St. Olaf’s Christmas Festival, with its over 500 student musician participants, coincides with the final exam season every year without fail. In lieu of being just...

Tea By Sadie Kolehmainen Contributing Writer Imagine a chilly, blustery night in late fall. The wind whips outside, howling as it curves around the building and rattles your windows. But inside...

I recently experienced my first-ever rude encounter with someone on the Hill. I had been getting by for roughly two months before it finally happened. It caught me so off guard that I genuinely couldn’t...

In the basement of Mohn Hall, between the kitchen and the ping-pong table, lives a piano. Upon it is a framed sign pleading, “Please LOVE this piano.” But, I must confess, I do not love it. I’m...

Across our campus, we are seeing professors adapting in real time to the increasing use of generative AI and how this technology integrates into our daily academic lives. As an English major here at St....

Recently, I took a morning walk in the Natural Lands, and I got it. “This is why they do it,” I thought to myself. “This is why people go on walks.” I’d just made a left at the far boundary...

I was born on a farm in central Minnesota. My parents, neither of whom attended college, moved to the Twin Cities in search of something better for their children. Minnesota had invested in education,...

We’re now officially at that point in the semester. Assignments and inboxes are accumulating faster than I can blink — but my Google Calendar is already etched into the backs of my eyelids. As demanding...

This past academic year, I’ve had over 40 required books for my classes. Through the St. Olaf Bookstore, this would’ve cost me hundreds of dollars. But instead of purchasing or renting my books, I...

As a sophomore who witnessed the terrors of last year’s housing process, the idea of informal housing is really cool to me. It makes me happy to know that there is a way for people to not have to be...

Hannah Goldner Niederman Contributing Writer  Existing on a college campus can be a difficult experience for so many reasons, and Covid has only made it more difficult. Being on Olaf’s campus during...