There are some days when I really don't know what I'm doing, how I'm going to do what I need to do, and where I'm going in life. Today is one of those days. I know I want to be a geoarchaeologist and own my own company. The owning my own company part of this dream is stagnant, but occasionally leaps forward a little. Currently, I'm working with a group of amazing people on campus called PSPE Rube Goldberg Team to modify a gumball machine to look like a human torso. The object is to teach little...

I live in a college town - well, really two towns - called Lafayette and West Lafayette. I've lived here since 1998, and I've always thought of it as a mid-sized city at the largest. I've always felt safe walking around most, if not all parts of the city in the daytime. I've never walked around at night since I was usually sleeping.

This year things seem to have changed in such a short time. Over the summer everything appeared to be the normal semi-sleep, relaxed city. When the...