Because Arcadia

Feb 28, 2019 • Jennifer Retter

Because Arcadia: Flower Power

Heidi Specht • Mar 13, 2018 •2:55 pm

My Home Away From Home

My first week in Chile was a brilliant blur of sunny beach days, delicious (and cheap) wine, Reggaeton, and the most difficult Spanish I’ve ever heard in my life. Coming to Chile can be a major culture shock, even for someone who knows Spanish and has previously studied abroad. Still,...

Jasmin Ramirez • Dec 22, 2017 •10:45 am

Alison Venditti, Assistant Director of Enrollment Management

“I have been on Arcadia’s campus since I was 14 years old, but my sister was the one to graduate from Arcadia University. I attended DeSales University and was a student worker and tour guide in the Admissions Office. When I moved back home after graduation, I began job hunting within...

Nov 7, 2017 • William Snell

De-Stressing On and Around Campus

Clifford Long • Apr 29, 2017 •10:37 am

See You, AU

I had my last big trip as an IPAL on April 16. I think I realized it sometime during the day that Saturday, while waiting in one of the ridiculously long lines for a ride at Hersheypark. With perfect weather and it being my friend and fellow IPAL leader Olayinka’s birthday, I...

Helen Armstrong • Apr 27, 2017 •8:00 pm

Maura Revaew, '17, International Studies Major

  I randomly took Ceramics as a gen-ed and I fell in love with it. Now I’m here pretty much—well, I shouldn’t say pretty much—I’m here every day. The ceramics studio is my happy place. Ceramics has helped me be more articulate because you have to be really specific. You’re...

Doriane Feinstein • Apr 24, 2017 •12:00 am

Leo Fahringer ’19, Illustration major

I love Arcadia because it has a really open and friendly atmosphere. There’s never a feeling of apathy coming from this campus. Everyone is impassioned about something, and that’s what I really value. Arcadia is important to me because of the relationships I’ve created here. I...

Justin Rollins • Apr 13, 2017 •8:00 pm

Transferring and Never Looking Back

When I was finishing up my time as a student at Montgomery County Community College, I was considering several colleges in Philadelphia. But as I was applying, someone suggested that I check out Arcadia University. At the time, Arcadia wasn’t on my mind. While, yes, I did have some doubts—with...

Doriane Feinstein • Apr 12, 2017 •12:00 am

I Can't Believe I Did That

If “future me” came to visit myself senior year of high school and told me that I would transfer colleges and take a trip to Vietnam, I would have thought it was some kind of joke. But that’s exactly what happened. Thanks to Arcadia’s incredible Preview program, I had the...

Doriane Feinstein • Apr 12, 2017 •12:00 am

I Can't Believe I Did That

If “future me” came to visit myself senior year of high school and told me that I would transfer colleges and take a trip to Vietnam, I would have thought it was some kind of joke. But that’s exactly what happened. Thanks to Arcadia’s incredible Preview program, I had the opportunity to...

Helen Armstrong • Apr 10, 2017 •8:00 pm

Food and Pottery for Credits

I found myself in mid-January knee deep in Beaver Creek, digging clay from the riverbed with a garden trowel. It’s moments like these when one is forced to reflect: How did I get here? Why am I here?  The answer: Culture of Cuisine: Food and Pottery. It’s a new class that’s co-taught...

Clifford Long • Apr 7, 2017 •12:00 am

The Final Stretch

As we near the end of the spring semester, my mind has been playing with a soon-to-come reality: I only have two semesters left of university. I’m sure I am not alone in saying that the idea of no longer being a student makes me want to hide in my wildly expensive dorm room and not...