Verve Blogs

  The idea of the “freshman 15” would suggest it is easy to fall under a diet consisting of chips, cookies and crackers in college. But with calories and other nutritional information listed on food packages and next to dishes in the Commons, it should be a little harder to fulfill the “freshman 15.” With […]

Most people, if not all, are guilty of premature judgement. Judgments could last a split second or last a lifetime, but we all make judgments about other human beings. These opinions of others could be altered by what another person is holding back. On numerous occasions, especially when in a fight with a friend, I […]

Bucket lists have become a popular thing, so my roommates and I — all seniors — decided to create one for ourselves. The problem is, we’re all starting to come to terms with our age and the fact that sometimes it’s just really nice to spend a weekend doing absolutely nothing. For instance, back in […]

In the three weeks since my last blog, I surprisingly have not attended any concerts, but that doesn’t mean the musical part of my life has been lacking. In fact, it’s been quite the opposite. On Sept. 30, a kind of musical Christmas happened for me, with the release of Justin Timberlake’s “The 20/20 Experience […]

When I was younger, I was terrified of thunderstorms. If clouds on the horizon looked even a little dark, I’d be seized with gut-wrenching terror. I remember my parents giving me a read-along book and cassette tape —“I Can Read About Thunder and Lightning!”— which I would often pull out and read to my favorite […]

  Some say the friends a person meets in college will be by their side for life — maybe they’ll help you land a job interview, or they’ll stand in as bridesmaids and groomsmen and that very wedding could have started as a college romance. Maybe this makes me weird or behind the times, but […]

  I have done it. I have made it through the first few weeks of school without pulling my hair out or crying in a corner of my room. However, I can’t lie. I must admit I thought about doing one of those things at least once during any given week. After getting familiar with […]

Sometimes I really can’t tell if I’m depressed or just a college student. The majority of the time, it’s either my pathological fear of failure or my small bladder that coaxes me out of bed in the morning. Other times it’s at least 45 minutes of scrolling through the puppies tag on Instagram before I […]

In one of my classes, we got off on a tangent about how males see things differently than females. For instance, walking to your car in a deserted parking lot after dark in Vermillion is a lot scarier for women than it is men. I was the only one in class who didn’t agree. About […]