The party is raging. It's one of the best of the semester, and people are laughing, drinking, smiling. Life is good. The energy in the room is so palpable that the idea of even needing alcohol seems ridiculous, but the crushed Keystone Lights and half-empty Smirnoff bottles are still piling up.
The stereotypical journey to college begins after four years of high school marked by footballs games on Friday nights, hanging out in the hallways after class, and the occasional disaster in chemistry lab. But for one Roger Williams University sophomore, the pre-college experience was a little bit different.
For somebody who set four individual records and five relay records, one might think that Roger Williams University swimmer Phil Jacques would surely continue on to a professional swimming career in the future. However, Jacques, a junior environmental science major, plans to return back to his small hometown in Maine to work for a local organization.
It's almost midnight on a Sunday night and you're still in the library writing that paper. You've had three cups of coffee to drink but you can't stop yawning. You decide it's probably smart to get some sleep. On the walk back to Stonewall, you hear leaves crunching behind you.
Professor Elaine Smollin is just one of the professors to join the Roger Williams University ranks this past year. However, she has had experience teaching at the college level since 1978 where she was a teacher in New York City. Currently, she instructs students in figure painting and drawing in the College of Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation at RWU.
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