Gustavus Blogs

Month: September 2023

  • Gustie Summer Employment Secrets: Stay Flexible

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    elliotsteeves

    Summer is often an occasion for college students to try and nudge their way into a career path. Biology students conduct on-campus research, while music students begin to work on teaching projects. And because of this time, and what it means for us, we all seek one key resume landing: Internships. My career interest has…

  • MCS Scholarship

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    anienow2

        Dr. Ella Burnham co-lead a breakout session titled “How to communicate in an online statistics course“. The session was part of the summer meeting of the United States Conference on Teaching Statistics at State College in Pennsylvania.

  • Celebrating former music faculty Paul and Helen Baumgartner

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    msousa

    The Fine Arts Office and Alumni and Parent Engagement Office are pleased to present the Baumgartner Memorial Concert, a recital to honor and celebrate former Gustavus music faculty Paul and Helen Baumgartner.  The recital will be held on Homecoming Saturday, September 23 at 5:30 p.m in Christ Chapel. The recital includes performances by current Gustavus…

  • Important Apple Security Updates

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    vogel

    TLDR: Your Apple devices need critical updates to remediate serious vulnerabilities. Apple recently released updates to address a set of serious vulnerabilities affecting most Apple devices. Security researchers released a report detailing how these vulnerabilities may be exploited. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to gain access to sensitive information, install applications, or spy on…

  • Meet our Teaching Assistant this year: Daniel López Fernández

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    aadams3

    Hello! My name is Daniel López Fernández. I have majored in Translation and Interpreting in English, French and Italian. I have studied languages my whole life and that’s why I wanted to learn about their cultures too! That’s why I’m here, to get to know better the American culture and bring some of Spain’s knowledge…

  • Football dominates in home opener

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    gkearney

    The Gustavus Football team opened their season at home against Buena Vista University, marking the third year in a row that the Gusties have squared off with BVU to start their season. Replicating their success from last year the Gusties started off their season with a dominating 51-7 victory over the Beavers. With a high…

  • Golf season starts for men and women

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    gkearney

    This past weekend, the Men’s Golf team participated in a dual meet against Saint Johns. The first round was at Rush Creek with the second being at Pioneer Creek. The Gusties came up just short, with the A team finishing 311-286-597 and the nationally ranked St. John’s tallying a final score of 301-279-580.  Although the…

  • Soccer sweeps home matches

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    gkearney

    The Gustavus Men’s and Women’s soccer teams were both in action this past weekend as they both had the opportunity to open their seasons at home. The men opened up their season against Knox College where they secured a 1-0 victory while the women defeated UW-Superior 2-1 to also start their season off undefeated. The…

  • Immortality: transcendent video games and the nature of art

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    gkearney

    To write about Immortality in a way that would do it justice, I would need to likely fill every page of this newspaper and then some. Immortality –a Half Mermaid Productions’ video game from 2022– is unlike any video game I have ever played. However, it is not the first of its kind. The lead…

  • Heat welcomes students back to campus

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    gkearney

    The time has come around once more when the campus is buzzing with activity, students between their First and Senior years have come back to campus, finding a great adversary at the gates of Gustavus. Heat. A heat that swelters the parking lots, that creeps in through the doors of the dorms, and the windows…