Blog Posts
Fall 2018 Rewind
It’s hard to believe that the Fall semester is over and we’re only 6 days away from Christmas! My name is Erik Slingerland, and I’m in my second year serving as the intern at Merge. This semester seemed to fly by for all of us on staff, so we thought it would be a good time to reflect on what happened this semester. We kicked off the semester with our annual cook-out, where over 200 students ate food and played…
Prayer Room Revelations: Reality > Expectations
I have always been an avid perfectionist and a strategic procrastinator. So often I would work on projects and my mom would remind me of the K.I.S.S method–Keep It Simple, Stupid–as I tried to do the absolute most. Bless my parents for putting up with me, really. As I’ve gotten older, these things have not gone away. I still want to be perfect in everything I do, and I’m the best at leaving things to the last minute. This…