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  • TLC Blog – This is How to Win

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    nhagberg

    I showed up at my first ever tennis tournament (other than the local Fiesta Days small town tournament where I grew up playing on asphalt courts and was perennial champion in our approximately three-person draw).  I was 14.  I had only been playing tennis for two year, but I was spending six hours a day…

  • The First Impressions of First-Year Gusties

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    aiyaj

    After waving a final tearful goodbye to their parents after move-in, many first-years are left with the frightening yet exhilarating year ahead. From changing dynamics with parents to learning how to share a 11’x15’ room with a stranger, the beginning of college is a time of big changes and heady adjustments.  To track how the…

  • Annika Reierson ’24

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    harrietanderson

    “All faculty members in the HES department have prepared me for my future career as a Physician’s Assistant.” Planning to pursue a career as a physician’s assistant, Annika chose a major in Exercise Physiology due to an interest in exercise as “a pillar of health and wellness.” Annika appreciates the atmosphere within the Health and…

  • Cody Bonk ’24

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    harrietanderson

    “Through the Pre-Health Career advisors and the HES department I have been able to create a strong resume, received letters of recommendation, and been able to network with previous Gustavus students who are now in graduate school.” Having a passion for the biomechanics of human movement, Cody’s major in Exercise Physiology will help him achieve…

  • Lucie Henrich ’25

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    harrietanderson

    “The faculty in the HES department have given me many opportunities to explore what I would like to do in the future. They are very helpful in figuring out different paths and post graduation options.” Having an interest in sports psychology, a major in Exercise Physiology has helped Lucie explore her passion for understanding the…

  • First Generation College Celebration!

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    ahulsebe

    The Library joins the Gustavus community in celebrating first generation college students! We’re here to support you on your journey! We share these messages from first generation Library faculty and staff: Dan Mollner, Librarian & Associate Professor –  I am a first generation student. My father went for one year, but had to drop out…

  • First-Term Seminars Aren’t Just Academic

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    admin

    Many colleges offer classes that help their first-year students get comfortable with the unfamiliar pace of higher education. Gustavus supplements this by utilizing the maturity and leadership qualities of our older students to make the first-year acclimation process even more comprehensive and fruitful. All new Gusties take a First-Term Seminar (FTS), small, discussion-based courses that…

  • Curriculum Change Transparency Panel

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    admin

    Yesterday, November 1, 2023, Provost Brenda Kelly, Dean Sarah Ruble, and Professor Kate Knutson held a transparency panel over Gustavus’s curriculum changes. These changes were researched and created by a Faculty Task Force convening last winter. The changes were officially approved by the entire faculty on October 6, 2023. All the information for the panel…

  • Enriching the Liberal Arts Through Music

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    elliotsteeves

    More than a decade before I arrived at Gustavus, when I was in third grade, they forced me to play cello. I was a student at a Waldorf school, an alternative educational philosophy that believes in tying a young person’s education to the way they play and interact with the world. Ideally, it improves executive…

  • Gustavus Inaugurates New Bonnier Reading Room & Jewish Studies Library

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    SJ Kessler

    On Tuesday, October 31, Gustavus Adolphus College and the Department of Religion inaugurated the new Åke & Kristina Bonnier Reading Room and Jewish Studies Library (OM 303). Scores of donors to volumes for the Library, as well as students, staff, faculty, and administrators at the College attended the event. The inauguration featured comments from President…