The holidays coming up – Christmas, Thanksgiving. Last year for Thanksgiving our family didn’t get together because of Covid, and this year we decided we will and I am excited. I am thankful for my mom and my cat. All the people that support me in my life. [Continue Reading »]
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\food des·ert noun 1.an urban area in which it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food: “many poor people live in food deserts—where they have plenty of food but none of it healthy” (Oxford Dictionary) Learning that Kirkwood Community College falls into this category can be a bit of a [Continue Reading »]
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Mexican Tamales. My mom is just an amazing cook. They are just the best! My grandmother’s lefse. It’s a Norwegian potato tortilla. When you put cinnamon and butter on it tastes delicious. I would have to say simply turkey. I just like it a lot. It fills [Continue Reading »]
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As Priority Registration week wraps, students may or may not have completed their registration for the upcoming Spring semester. Advice from an academic advisor may help alleviate some of the stress and anxiety that students might be experiencing through the process. Karla Scriven is the academic advisor for [Continue Reading »]
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Imagine a student who is insulin-dependent diabetic looking for a private place to take their injection. Or, perhaps a transgender individual desiring to be comfortable walking into a bathroom without the anxiety of making others feel uncomfortable. Maybe there is a student who is a victim of violence [Continue Reading »]
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I like Instagram. You can see a lot of content that people are creating that is really good. Artists mainly promote themselves on Instagram. Even though I have Facebook and Twitter, I only use it to keep in touch with certain people. I use Snapchat a lot so [Continue Reading »]
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Students at Kirkwood Community College may have recently received a request in their student email inbox regarding a survey. The Marketing Department at the college issued an invitation to participate in a survey to all students on Tuesday, Sept. 28, asking for their input on the ways they [Continue Reading »]
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Anyone of us can probably list off a litany of things we missed, had to give up, or couldn’t do while “riding out the storm” that is COVID-19. With the many obvious negative consequences from this pandemic, we hope to focus on the positive lessons learned amidst all [Continue Reading »]
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