Braden Slavens ’19 — Today’s schedule was lighter than usual. No orders to wake up at 7:30am were given and the kilometers expected to be traveled were much shorter than in the […]
Aaron Tincher ’18 — We went to Ostia today to visit the ruins. Unlike Rome, Ostia has not been built over multiple times and therefore provides a good snapshot of what life […]
Jacob Chrisman ’20 — Today we explored the Vatican City where we started off looking at Early Christian art in the Musei Vaticani. The biggest take away was Christian expressionism pre-Constantine and […]
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Anthony Eley ’19 — Ever since I stepped into my first Classics class, in the spring of last year, I have been captivated by the art, archeology, and extensive history of Rome. With this […]
Patrick Azar ’19 — Today we spent much of our day exploring the roman forum after visiting some churches in the city including the basilica di Sante Croce (basilica of the holy […]
Tim Leath ’18 — You would think that traveling a city for eight hours a day that you would run out of things to explore. That is the complete opposite case here in Rome. It […]
Brandon Johnson ’19 — The vast difference between the Roman Constantine and the Christian, the man trying to appear to be the most Roman, while also attempting to appear the most devout, has […]
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On the fourth Thursday in November, some 6,300 miles from campus, the Wabash REL 290 class received a gift from their Palestinian counterparts. They got the gift of awareness. Over the course […]
As their journey meandered toward Jerusalem, the students on the REL 290 immersion trip to Israel today walked in the footsteps of Jesus, and traveled into the West Bank before settling in […]
HAIFA, Israel – It’s not every day one gets to walk through 15,000 years of history. Fortunately, for the REL 290 students on an immersion trip to Israel, this was the first […]
Nicholas Vedo ’19 — Life is much like the liberal arts in that it requires solving problems from a variety of angles and disciplines of thought. Before going to Peru for the […]
David Vavrinak ’19 — Out of all the activities we did in Peru, the visit to the Neurological Hospital in Lima on Aug. 8 was the most memorable for me. The day […]
