After nearly two decades, Baylor’s Freshman League is returning this fall, giving first-year students a new way to participate in intramurals and make friends, stay active and build community outside the classroom.

College will be some of the busiest and most social years of our lives. Between joining different organizations, staying on top of school work and trying to hang out with your friends as much as you can, it becomes difficult not to say yes to everything. My advice is to take a few moments, with or without people, and to simply sit in silence.

We live in a time and country with no shortage of things worth caring about. Yet too often, an issue does not seem to matter until its consequences are relevant, immediate, visible or catastrophic. A war thousands of miles away is an easy headline to scroll past; a local decision can happen without most of the people it affects ever knowing; an injustice can continue quietly for years if it never becomes dramatic enough to command national attention.

Encore is a rooftop bar expanding two stories, but pulling off a renovation of this size is not easy.