Faculty lining up for #SetonHill’s “Go Orientation” — new ceremony hands students from their parents to robed Hogwarts pretenders.

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Dani Girl (Oct 1-3, 2015) at the Geyer Performing Arts Center

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Advising incoming majors.

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One wild place. (Sunday.)

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Facebook Should Pay All of Us

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Just wrote the first ending to my in-progress journalism game (created in Twine)

3,486 words, 120 links, 57 lexias, and currently this is the only ending.

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