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Alumni News From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

After graduating from Kenyon last spring, Andrew Tint ’13 spent his nights working in baseball and his days looking for a job to start his radio career. Tint wrote game summaries and managed social media for the Newark Bears, a New Jersey-based Canadian-American Baseball League team, but his hope was to land an on-air job in radio. So he cold-called radio stations around the country. “I spent two or three hours a day calling,” he said. “I sent out more than 100 resumes.” His persistence paid off:…

Kenyon-Exeter: Reverse Culture Shock

By Kate Lindsay

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

I was warned about reverse culture shock at my first ever meeting for the Kenyon-Exeter program, long before I had sent in any applications or packed any bags. I knew this would be true. I get culture shock just going back and forth between Kenyon and my home in Pennsylvania--who knows what two countries is going to do to me.  Being abroad, I started missing weird things about America. It's important to note that, before I left, I didn't think there was going to be anything I missed about America…

College Timeline for Neurotic Parents

By J.D. Rothman

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

December is prime time for college neurosis. Seniors are waiting for early decisions and juniors have just received scores for the SATs they bombed. But if your child is under ten, or better yet, still in utero, you can alleviate a lot of stress by adhering to this handy timeline: One month before birth -- Travel to Dhaka, so your baby will qualify for Bangladeshi citizenship. Birth -- Send APGAR scores to the colleges you will be considering in 17 years. Eight months -- Hire a college counselor…

High Note

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

Kenyon’s finest student musicians showcase their talent on Saturday, Jan. 18, when the Department of Music presents the Angela Waite Student Recital at the Brandi Recital Hall. Music faculty members select students for the recital based on juried performances in December. The free concert is at 7 p.m. Student performers include: Padraig Duna ’14 of Charlotte, N.C., classical guitar; Marissa Hartman ’14 of Doylestown, Pa., voice; David Hoyt ’14 of Atlanta, viola; Will Quam ’14 of St. Paul, Minn…

Kenyon Review Scores NEA Grant

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

The Kenyon Review celebration of its 75th anniversary will be enhanced this year by a $15,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The NEA Art Works grant will support KR Credos, a special essay series that will appear in the print and online journals throughout the anniversary year, as well as support general production costs. KR Credos are a nod to a 1950s essay series published in the Kenyon Review that invited prominent literary critics to discuss the role of criticism. That…

Appetite for Success

Student Life From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

Hungry for a Gunder World with a Peirce of Paradise? How about a Club Olin and a Chillander Chase?  Those are just a few of the offerings on the “little taste of Kenyon” menu at Nite Bites Café, a student-owned food-service business in Peirce Pub satisfying the appetites of night owls hitting the books between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. Members of the Kenyon College Entrepreneurship Club launched the enterprise with a $3,000 prize from the Innovation Greenhouse business-plan competition. Since then, the…

Extra Credit

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

A funny thing happened to Jake Thorn ’14 on his way to a medical career: He became a teacher instead. Thorn originally intended to take pre-medicine coursework at Kenyon and apply to medical school, but his openness to other possibilities swept him on a different path. “One thing I’ve learned over time is that the best-laid plans don’t always happen in the way you envision them,” he said. “I simply followed my passions as they came along.” The once-aspiring physician is slotted to teach science…

Get Organized: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Google Calendar

By Elizabeth Cheever

Student Life From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

With all the activities most Kenyon students are involved in, it can be hard to keep everything straight. Especially for seniors, the prospect of balancing school, comps, standardized tests, job applications, and extracurriculars is thoroughly terrifying. Even more terrifying? The thought of keeping all those things straight without a calendar. I get worked up/sweaty/red-faced about a lot of stuff: the achievement gap in education, the government shutdown, when there are shredded carrots instead…

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