Just about every college student does something others might call “crazy” at least once while in school, but few take it to as grand a scale as this: four Baylor juniors are going to bicycle from Waco to Anchorage, Alaska, this summer to raise awareness for suicide prevention. After talking to a friend who had […]
On Monday, we wrote about the results USA Today ran from the National Survey of Student Engagement. Today, we’ve got some more interesting data from the survey. Baylor clearly outshines its peers in two questions that encompass the entire college experience. First-year students and seniors were each asked “How would you evaluate your entire educational […]
According to data gathered by USA Today, Baylor students are happier with their college choice than students at similar schools across virtually all areas of the college academic experience. Over 250 universities across the country shared their data from the National Survey of Student Engagement with USA Today. The publication categorized Baylor as a high-research […]
It’s an epidemic — first Jeopardy, then Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, and now Wheel of Fortune! Baylor sophomore Nick Herring won almost $30,000 this week on Wheel, despite missing the final puzzle. Not a bad haul for a half-hour’s work, eh? For more on Herring’s experience, you can read this Lariat article or […]
One of my biggest regrets looking back on college was that I didn’t participate in more activities on campus, especially as a freshman. It took me awhile to break out of my shell, and so I missed out on a lot of fun — things like Freshman Follies, for instance. The longstanding tradition continued earlier […]
Imagine a soap box derby, except instead of a soap box, you have a bed. And instead of coasting downhill, your friends are pushing that bed as fast as they can while you hang on for dear life. That’s pretty much what you get at the annual ATO Bed Races, held Friday on Fountain Mall. […]
I have to admit, I’m not quite sure how it is that the McLane Student Life Center (known on-campus as the SLC, or “Slick”) turned eight years old last week, and I STILL haven’t taken a turn at climbing its 52-foot rock wall. Did you know that it’s the tallest free-standing climbing structure in the […]
Click the picture to check out a photo gallery of students showing their spirit, complete with the sounds of the Golden Wave Marching Band!
A lot of people have compared the new Brooks College’s design to the Hogwarts School described in the Harry Potter novels, and aesthetically, that’s not far off. In fact, much of the college’s look was modeled after features at Oxford — which just happened to have served as a filming location for the Harry Potter […]
With almost a month of classes gone by already, Baylor released some official numbers Tuesday that look outstanding. As you may have heard, interest in Baylor is on the rise. For the fifth straight year, high school student applications set a new Baylor record; 26,514 students applied to start school this fall, blowing away the […]
