By Grace Smith | Broadcast Reporter Thanksgiving is around the corner, and students are finally able to put the books down and head home for the long-awaited break. Some students on campus share what they are most excited for this holiday season. “I am really looking forward to going home, seeing my family and doing all the traditions we do for Thanksgiving,” Friendswood sophomore Ashley Brueggeman said. “Ever since I was six, I have made pies with my grandma and then we usually just watch a football game while we all eat.” Another student shares what he is most looking…
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By Grace Smith | Broadcast Reporter Jae Moore, a senior student-teacher and intern for the Baylor School of Education, is well along on her “path to teaching.” Baylor’s School of Education is nationally known for its innovative partnership with local schools providing students with real experience teaching in a classroom. Starting off with 1-on-1 interactions, freshman and sophomore students are given a local school to go to once or twice a week. As juniors, students are given the title of a “teaching assistant,” and they are at local schools four to five times in the mornings. This all leads up…
By Grace Smith | Broadcast ReporterWe all are born with very unique personalities. Our personalities can take us places. But we have to be careful that we do not let our personalities take us from our purpose.A couple weeks ago, I heard a sermon about this very thing. Michael Todd, the pastor of Transformation Church in Tulsa, Okla. spoke about how if we are not careful, our preferences or our personality will take the reins of our lives and take us in a direction in which we were never supposed to end up. Pastor Todd emphasizes that our personality must…
By Grace Smith | Broadcast ReporterProcrastination is something every college student experiences daily. The late nights of cramming and chugging RedBull just to keep your eyes open is all too familiar.I can admit that I experienced these nights time and time again until I finally got tired of it. When I find myself procrastinating, I produce about half of the quality of work I could do if I hadn’t procrastinated in the first place. I procrastinated my whole way through high school. I would wait till the last minute to do just about everything. So, I decided that I was…
By Grace Smith | Broadcast Reporter As Baylor students begin class registration for the Fall 2019, they have the chance to knock out a lifetime fitness requirement by enrolling in Beginning Self-Defense (LF 1163) with Lance and Melinda Yager. Skilled with over 25 years of training combined, the Yager’s have said they have already reached their five-year goal of 300 students by training more than 120 Baylor students and 170 community members at their three-year-old academy. Hutto sophomore Kendall Shepherd said she feels more aware in situations and that she can defend herself after having enrolled in their class. “They…