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of instrumental music ensembles and was a member of MediaLab. Genny Boots ’18 Genny is a communication/mass media and journalism major with a minor in global development at PLU. Since leaving her hometown of Anchorage, Alaska, Genny has been exploring new places. From backpacking in south and central America and central Europe to a semi-settled life in the Puget Sound, Genny has enjoyed writing and telling stories. You can find her work around campus, through PLU’s Division of Marketing and

their learning and self-manage their progress. I wanted to be able to give them more personalized feedback. I didn’t want to limit their learning with a deadline or with grades, I wanted them to be able to think metacognitively about their learning and advocate for their learning needs. I started to draw on my experiences as a one-room schoolhouse teacher where students were self-paced and received immediate one-on-one feedback from me. I decided to eliminate the deadlines in my classes, only give

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classes I’ve taken before which assume I don’t have a background in it. I was especially glad to see my accent mark usage get better and better with each assignment! The class helped my vocabulary too, and overall exponentially improved my writing. Helped me communicate better with Spanish speaking family too (I don’t sound as awkward anymore).” Ale Robatty Llerena “I was nervous at first when I signed up for this class because I knew that I still struggled with the way I spoke and read Spanish. I

support. “PLU has been so phenomenal through so much—beginnings, endings and hardships in between,” Hunt said. Health, Hardships and Healing Hardships don’t come much harder: In the summer of 2009, Hunt was diagnosed with cancer. “It was a very, very stressful semester,” Hunt said (in addition to classes, a job and bills, her namesake aunt was losing her own battle with cancer). “I was having a hard time. I thought I had an ulcer.” Hunt visited a local urgent-care clinic, which performed nine hours

National Science Foundation. Finney, one of the student researchers, became interested in summer research after taking organic chemistry classes. “I love how (research) is so different from the very structured labs. It’s very free-form,” said Finney, a chemistry major. “You run into so many more problems because it is stuff that is new. As Waldow has said, ‘if research was easy it would have already been done.’” Studying the evolution of fishHeidi Schutz To Heidi Schutz, happiness looks like graphs