![The Power of a Piece of Plastic](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2013/10/Credit_card_memorial.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Mackenzie Vaclav “Welcome to the University of Akron!” Signs were everywhere on campus welcoming the freshmen class of 2016. Leaving the safe haven of my…
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by Kamryn Lorenzen It was an average day at the rink. I came in like any other day. I was going to work with my…
![Going Deeper than Google](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2013/10/PikiWiki_Israel_32304_The_Internet_Messenger_by_Buky_Schwartz.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Amanda Revesz Has the accessibility of limitless information from the internet changed the way we read and write? In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”…
![Wikipedia: Can It Be Trusted?](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2013/10/EncycBrit1913.jpg?w=397&h=140&crop=1)
by Katie Constantine If I learned one thing in high school that will stick with me through my academic career it is to avoid Wikipedia…
![Gettin' SWOLL](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2013/09/U.S._Army_Maj._Roger_Miranda_with_the_1st_Cavalry_Division_lifts_a_barbell_while_doing_thrusters_during_the_CrossFit_Open_competition_at_Fort_Hood_Texas_April_5_2013_130405-A-CJ112-293.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Spencer DeVeau The gym, or “my second home,” as 19 year old John Selzer called it with an exasperated grunt, reeked of sweat and…
![Relating Redefined Human Connection to Patient Care](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2013/09/healthcare.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Katlin Dubravetz Recall your last doctor appointment, whether it was for an annual check-up or a scheduled visit because you came down with the…
![Effects of Schooling: Bigger Than You Think](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2012/12/beaches1.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Shayna Hughes Wes Moore’s memoir, The Other Wes Moore: One Name Two Fates, tells the story of two men with the same name, growing…
![Structure and Discipline](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2012/12/big-black-stones1.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Zach Green The memoir The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore, is about two kids who grow up on the same…
![The Idea of a Man](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2012/12/ocean-beaches-sky1.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Jacob Dodds The memoir The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates illustrates the differences between how masculinity is defined and developed by two African…
![Life in Reverse](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2012/12/cave2.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Ashley Cosher “‘Wir werden Amerika,’ we are going to America, is the only thing I remember from the conversation with my parents. I was…