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Marathon Summer: Unconventional Engineering

May. 2, 2014—*Guest blog by my roommate and fellow burger-enthusiast, Mary Kate Hardy Last semester I discovered one of the hidden gems of engineering in the form of a Biomedical Engineering elective course, titled Service Learning in Guatemala. This course included a trip to Guatemala over Spring Break to repair and service medical equipment. Never have I had more fun in an engineering class. The hands-on learning experience was incredible, and fine dining and zip lining with your professors was a blast too.

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Cheers from Chattanooga

Apr. 11, 2014—My friend A., who lives in Atlanta, didn't want to drive four hours to Nashville and I didn't want to bus it four hours to Atlanta, so we chose a halfway point: ChatChat, as I fondly call it.

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Storytime Snippets

Mar. 31, 2014—Hello friends! Time to draft a list of everything blog-worthy that has happened in, oh say, the past two months that I haven't yet told you about. Okay Ann. Goal-setting time. I'm going to tackle each one of these subjects, including events like Unveiling the Hijab, BCM Spring SPOTS, a trip to Chattanooga, and perhaps twelve other things, and write about them. Just one a week. Doable.

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Life Changing Spring Break

Mar. 19, 2014—When I first learned that I will be going on the Homelessness and poverty site in Washington DC with ASB, I was excited. This is one of the most popular and most influential sites and I was incredibly excited to go on it. The experiences that I had on that site were much more than...

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Five Days of Harry: Day 5

Mar. 17, 2014—In this post: THE HARRY POTTER STUDIO TOUR.

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The Final SPOTS: Chicago

Mar. 17, 2014—I'm still alive, promise. They make you think second semester senior year is going to be this blissful stress-free moment in your life where you have all the free time in the world to blog, but boy are "they" wrong! That being said, this semester is busy in the most wonderful of ways--but more on that later. First, let me catch you up on my spring break!

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Five Days of Harry: Day 4

Mar. 17, 2014—In this post: London, Matilda: the Musical, and Platform 9 3/4!

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Five Days of Harry: Day 3

Mar. 17, 2014—In this post: the Roald Dahl museum, a Harry Potter walking tour, and delicious desserts!

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Five Days of Harry: Day 2

Mar. 17, 2014—In this post: Oxford, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and the Eagle and Child--among other things!

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Five Days of Harry: Day 1

Mar. 16, 2014—I'm breaking my accidental blog silence (sorry guys) with a series of posts about my spring break! I'll start out with a little background: this semester, I'm enrolled in a class called Harry Potter and Child Development. Sounds awesome, right?

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