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Freshmen’s Panther Dining celebrates international presence Guide to Florida Tech Rebekah Duntz Editor-in-Chief
Study.
You’re probably going to have to study. In high school, it was much easier and I’m willing to bet you never had to study for tests. In college, it’s a little different. Keep an organizer or a calendar on your phone, and keep track of tests and important dates to remember.
Get Involved.
It’s important to get involved in different organizations and have fun. Find what makes you happy and join a club! Student Government Association, The Crimson, Kaleidoscope, Greek Life ... These are just a few of the organizations, and they’re all worth joining. You’ll make experiences to remember and have a presence on campus. It’s important to be a part of something bigger than you.
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Rebekah Duntz Editor-in-Chief What’s something that brings everyone together? Food. And Panther Dining Hall will bring everyone together once a month this year for a small, focused international festival. Panther Dining Hall is showcasing a new international menu series this year, honoring different cultures from around the world. It’s expected to be an annual event that features a variety of foods and celebrates our international presence on campus. The menu will be
Sleep.
available once a month, and each month will feature a different area of the world. “We want it to be as close as possible to home,” said Tom Stewart, food service director. “Not the americanized version.” In order to get the various foods as authentic as possible for the campus community, Dining Services held food tastings over the summer, testing different recipes and ingredients. They also special-order meats, like lamb, that aren’t easily accessible at regular food stores so that the food tastes just right. “We want students to feel like, ‘This is something I’d get at home.’ We get knowledge and re-
search from the students and some faculty,” said Jon Skoviera, Head Chef at Panther Dining. Skoviera and his staff has spent much of the summer preparing the international menu for the Fall semester, developing authentic-tasting recipes to feed about 200 people, rather than a small family. “When you mass-produce, it’s harder. The challenge is making it consistent,” said Skoviera. But the most important part is celebrating all the different cultures that Florida Tech students come from. “I like to know the culture behind the food.” While international students may get to taste a little piece of
home, Americans will get a chance to taste the authentic styles of the Americanized foods that they know, but also get to try entirely new things as well. There is always a rotation of menu items throughout the year, so students don’t have to eat the same thing over and over. Panther Dining staff also pays attention to what students ask for, and they’ll usually try things out to to see if it can be added to the menu. “We take care of special diets, too,” said Stewart. Those with celiac, diabetes, gluten-free and vegan diets do not need to worry about what they are able to eat at Florida Tech. Allergen content and nutrition is provided to students. The daily menu can be seen on the Florida Tech mobile app under “Dining,” and Dining Services hopes to have web-based nutritional values available by the end of the Spring semester. As for other upcoming dining-related matters on campus, students can hope to see Vitamin Water beverage machines in the dining hall and more organic vending machines throughout the campus this year. Below are the international food dates: August 28, Caribbean September 18, Middle Eastern October 22, African November 13, India/Southern Asia January 15, Mediterranean February 19, Chinese March 19, Latin America April 23, Korea, Thai, Vietnamese Visit www.fit.edu/food for more information.v
I knew a lot of people my freshman year that took naps every day. I wish that I had time to nap, but it is important to remember to get some sleep. There’s the old saying for college, “Good grades, sleep, social life. Pick two of those.” It’s funny but not far off, but sleep is not something you can kick out.
Don’t Overload.
This goes for everything. Don’t oversleep, don’t party too hard, don’t skip too much, don’t load up on too many obligations. Almost everything is better in moderation.
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Keep Contact.
It’s normal to feel homesick. Keep in contact with your buddies and your family, and make sure you surround yourself with some home comforts every once in a while.
Exercise. (A little.)
Even if you’re not a student athlete, it’s important to stay active, even if we don’t have enough time in the day with our classes, studying, lunch breaks, organizations and other obligations.
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MELBOURNE, FLA. — Time travel. Parallel universes. Quantum entanglement. Genetic engineering. Immersive man/ machine interfaces. Artificial evolution. Each of these scientific achievements and cosmic happenings were featured on “FRINGE,” the quirky Fox Network drama that concluded last year after five seasons and 100 episodes. (It remains available on Netflix.)
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They were entertaining facets of the show, to be sure, but were they just television hocuspocus, or is there some scientific reality at work here? And what are the connections between the show’s science and the increasingly important areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, or STEM? Scott Tilley, a professor in the Department of Education and Interdisciplinary Studies in the College of Science at Florida Institute of Technology, will tackle that question, and more, in a free,
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