student life

Family Weekend at Baylor unfolded this year as a familiar campus ritual — food trucks, concerts, and a football kickoff — while simultaneously revealing an often-overlooked counter-narrative: for many international students the weekend is less a reunion than a careful juggling act of time zones...

Baylor’s 2025 Family Weekend arrives this weekend with big headlines — a high‑profile Lauren Daigle concert, Taste of Waco and a packed schedule — but the event’s logistics are being reshaped by a major reconstruction of I‑35 through Waco, forcing alumni and families to rethink arrival times...

In its 65th year, Baylor’s Family Weekend stands as a living tradition: born in 1960 as a one-day chance for parents to meet professors and evolved into a full weekend that stitches family, faith, and campus life into a single communal experience. Background A tradition begins: Parents Day, 1960...

The Peradeniya campus, in the telling by Thalif Deen, is a place where scholarship and satire mixed as naturally as monsoon winds and mango trees — a compact world of rituals, inside jokes, high-table formalities and the kind of campus legends that survive generations. The Sunday Times piece...

Microsoft’s bold strategy for integrating artificial intelligence across its communication products took another step forward with the rollout of Copilot inside GroupMe, a popular social messaging app. While Skype may be heading towards sunset, GroupMe’s trajectory indicates a new era where AI...

Microsoft is stepping up its AI game by integrating Copilot into GroupMe, injecting a new level of smarts into one of the most popular messaging apps among US college students and teens. This innovative update isn’t just about flashy new features—it’s about transforming everyday chats into...

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Recently I met Kody Peralta, an ambitious 18-year old high school graduate who’s Surface Book has changed the way he learns. Kody now has the ability to take handwritten notes which he couldn’t do on pen and paper because of his transcription disability, dysgraphia. People with dysgraphia have...

When graduating senior Michelle Jiang visited a job fair in Florida last year, recruiters were chasing her down. Literally. After dropping off a resume at the booth for Johnson Controls, a maker of heating, air-conditioning and power solutions, the next day the company's recruiter ran up to...

Unfortunately, I'm having obstacles and setbacks when it comes to studying for my college classes, and am looking to find solutions to distracting noise, whenever it's around. I don't know how some people can do it, though I'd guess chances are they are people who end up doing not as good as...

A ' sex toy show' at Northwestern University in Chicago featured a woman being brought to orgasm by a machine-powered saw that had a dildo where the blade would normally be. As a group of around 100 students looked on, the naked woman was penetrated by the phallic object in a human...