Bloomington

Team 3494 The Quadrangles, located in Bloomington, Indiana, may think they’re a bunch of squares; however, they don’t think you have to be a square to be a Quadrangle. People, as well as ideas, can come in all shapes and sizes, but all can take the form of a Quadrangle. The team’s mission statement since their rookie season eight years ago includes inspiring “high school students to develop a strong foundation of applicable skills and knowledge in science, technology, engineering, mathematics,…

Ever since I was in third grade I have always had a passion for dentistry. I love going to the dentist and have always thought becoming a dentist would be ideal for me. I have recently job shadowed my dentist. While job shadowing, I gained an abundance of knowledge by watching and questioning. He has been very helpful in my decision to pursue dentistry. In my sophomore year I also found a new passion for chemistry; I could apply this newfound passion to dentistry. My love for chemistry began my…

it would become. I thought that I was going to get into my dream school, IU Bloomington, without any problem given my grades and extracurricular involvement. But, my SAT was an average score and that wasn’t good enough. On March 10, 2017, my thought of college changed forever. I was informed that I had been waitlisted and then the real college search began. In the Fall of 2016, I applied to two colleges, IU Bloomington as my number one and Ball State as my end of the road backup. I live…

The American educational system is constantly up for debate; citizens and politicians alike discuss improvements to be made on how to educate the nation’s youth, how government funds should be allocated towards education, and how America’s educational system is falling behind other industrialized nations. In our society today, students face a multitude of factors that can ultimately decide their post-secondary education. Among these include a student’s transition from high school to college, the…

project, I interviewed two informants from two different South East Asian countries. Htaik Khamom is a 20-year-old college student and she looks like any typical Asian woman. She is very skinny, tall, and has light color skin. She currently lives in Bloomington. She came to United States a couple of years back and still misses living in Burma. She was raised by her grandmother and learned everything from her grandmother. She currently live with her parents and her younger sister. My second…

study in the United States (Crime Investigation, 2014). Eventually Ng made his way to California, where he managed to enlist in the Marine Corps, despite his not being a legal United States citizen, by incorrectly claiming his birthplace to be Bloomington, Indiana. Ng seemed to enjoy his time in the Corps, referring to himself as a 'ninja warrior ' and proving himself to be extremely skilled in martial arts (Newton, 2006). As a matter of fact, many of Ng 's fellow Marines took to calling him…

interact with another person you both are in control of the personal space given. This leads to me testing others by stepping over boundaries to make them feel uncomfortable, nervous, or embarrassed. My first location was the Eastland Mall in Bloomington IL, many people seemed to ignore me when I was just simply asking for directions, but when I did get a response I had to be ready to spring into action and willing to get close to a complete…

The crowd was growing larger and rowdier around the circular table where my church friends and I were playing cards. This year, our ministry traveled to the desert heat in St. Francis, South Dakota. While playing, Lexi, a girl next to me slapped the center card, in response, the audience let out an “OOOOH,” then we all started laughing. While Lexi pulled the victorious card into her deck, I thought about the first time I met her. It was Intercity tennis and I played number one doubles with my…

possibly, other related fields. The volunteer sport organization, or the organization that provided the opportunity for the community was the Bloomington Hospital Foundation, which is an organization that creates events and fundraisers in order to support the IU Health Bloomington Hospital. Their mission is “ to support the mission of Indiana University Health Bloomington Hospital to be one of the best hospitals in the state of Indiana” (bloomingtonhospitalfoundation.org).…

know it today, was created by two men, George Nissen and Larry Griswold. Around 1935, Griswold, then the assistant gymnastics coach at the University of Iowa, and Nissen, a tumbler on the University of Iowa gymnastics team, "made regular jaunts to Bloomington, Illinois where numerous circus people had their winter homes. Among them were the "Flying Wards", some of the finest trapeze performers in the world. Griswold and Nissen worked out with them at the local YMCA, and frequently helped them…