International Love: DU’s International Family

We all know the famous song by RB singer Pitbull, but never has it been better represented than in the 2011-2012 semesters at Drury University. Never have I seen a group of people be so different and at the same time so alike, come from dozens of different places and still call the same place home. This I have seen being part of perhaps the greatest community of International students in the US, the DU 2011-2012 Internationals. Hello my good readers! As you can tell by my latest posts Finals Week is fast approaching and with it the warmth of Summer, but most importantly the chance to start fresh in August with new goals and objectives. However it is also the chance to remember what a great year we all had and how thankful we must be for being part of a community as unique at Drury. It all started back during [...]

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Personal Insight with The Mirror: Q&A with Yelena Bosovik, Editor in Chief

Happy Saturday readers! Hope you all had a great week and are now enjoying this great weekend Nothing is more representative of a University than its student run newspaper and today I present to you a personalized Q&A with Yelena Bosovik, Editor in Chief of DU’s Newspaper: The Mirror. Yelena is a talented leader who I had the privilege to meet back when we went on our Pre-Law club trip to NYC last semester. I know you will find her interesting and very smart, but apart from this I hope you can get a good look into what Drury has to offer through her eyes and the newspaper she so successfully runs. 1. Yelena, you’re a successful person on campus; can you help us understand who you are? What drives you? Where do you come from? Awe, thank you! I’m a Finance and Economics major with minors in Entrepreneurship and Global Studies. What [...]

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Coming to Drury: What to do in your First Week

Hello Friends! There are officially less than 3 weeks of school left and i’m thrilled to be finally going back to my home country of Venezuela and being with my family that even though just visited me i’m very excited to see. Although my time at Drury is precious, sometimes you do need to cool off for a while and be surrounded by those that love you the most (just saying ). Today I thought I would address what to do when you first come to DU! It is quite a busy time as you might have gathered from my posts concerning orientation, but you must always know what is it you want and you must keep what sort of future you want in mind. Now not everything applies to every different personality that comes to Drury, but they are very basic and general so just follow those things that catch your [...]

Getting Close and Personal with DU Blogger Tinsley Andrews Part II

J: Can you tell me one moment that changed your life being at DU? T: The moment that changed my life was when DU lost the Division II NCAA Champiosnip in Dallas, TX by 1 point. I feel I never really had a leadership role before, but when I saw the other team celebrating this inspired me to go ahead and motivate my team members”to excell expectations. I sincerely felt vengeful, inspired, heated, passionate, and worst a silent shock (no desire to express myself verbally) that I could not beat, astounded, more mad than sad, proud of my team however. J: What do you think of International Students at DU? T: I don’t understand the international experience overall, but I can nevertheless connect because I’m not from here. Drury is the PERFECT, place for internationals because we want them here! Internationals are doing great things here, because we want them [...]

Getting Close and Personal with DU Blogger Tinsley Andrews, Part I

Happy Saturday readers! A couple of weeks back DU Unscripted received our newest blogging  team member Tinsley Andrews who has done an AMAZING job so far! I am so happy to have her onboard simply because she firmly represents “thinking outside the box” which I consider to be an essential trait in anyone. Yeah we often disagree on her musical taste, but I can hardly be blamed considering she’s a hardcore Justin Bieber/ One Direction fan (gives me shudders to type it…), but I am thrilled to be blogging alongside such a talented person. Tinsley and I thought it would be cool to interview each other so that we could present a view to the world of who the real Juan and Tinsley are, something that might not actually be the best of ideas considering we are both pretty weird :p! You will see our names before each section so [...]

Tweet Tweet Tweet Time!

Hello followers! With Follow Friday (check out the website! http://followfridayhelper.com/ffhelper/show) coming up I thought we could get a little contest going! The ultimate prize? An amazing and quite influential shout out from yours truly so you can bump up that dwindling Followers list .  How can you win? Here it is: For one week (Wednesday to Wednesday) I will be closely following the hashtag #DruryRocksBecause for amazing and innovative reasons why Drury is such a good school. It can be things like “#DruryRocksBecause of the amount of squirrels on campus” to “#DruryRocksBecause of the incredibly quality of teachers on campus”! If you’re feeling like a professional photographer go ahead and take pictures of what you feel represent’s Drury’s greatness and tweet them with the hashtag. Considering the recent news that Facebook just acquired Instagram for $1 Billion USD go ahead and edit your pictures if you want to make them extra nice looking! [...]