BY NATE HIGGS Spring semester is (perhaps shockingly) winding down. With Commencement just over a month away, many seniors are putting their final touches on four years of education. Senior capstones come in many forms, from voice recitals and art shows to papers and presentations. For Adventure Education majors, this culmination of study appears every [...]
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Katahdin: Land of the pine marten?
By Nate Higgs. On March 6, the Green Mountain College Adventure Programming Office (GreenMAP) launched its first Spring Break trip, a seven day expedition to Baxter State Park in Maine. While hordes of college students chase the first warmth of the year during spring break, a group of ten rag-tag adventurers set out instead to [...]
By the numbers: What are we paying for?
by Nate Higgs $304.00 could be a lot of things to a college student. It could be two biology textbooks, tickets to a show, or even 5,400 fluid ounces of beer (if you’re willing to drink cheap beer). But what is three-hundred and thirty-four dollars to a Green Mountain College student? Short answer: it’s the [...]
Student profile: Alaina Killion
Alaina’s destiny was not always to be an Adventure Education major. From a young age she had her sights set on professional basketball, but her career peaked in the 1st grade. Though at the time she survived numerous escapades—such as jumping off the roof of the shed at her childhood home in Westminster, MA.—she unfortunately [...]
Climbing the wall: Life in the bouldering cave
by Nate Higgs For months I struggled with writing this story. No matter what I typed, it never seemed to come out the way I wanted it to. Then tonight, I remembered the words of an old friend, and I could think of no better way to begin. During my freshman year I spent a [...]
