Posts Tagged ‘McDonalds’

PROFILE: No Sophomore Slump for Kayden Manning

A hush fell over the entire Gathering Place. An exasperated crowd waited in anticipation as the called chose another numbered ball. “B7,” he said. As the number of excited faces grew, they were all squashed when the tall, brunette girl in the back yelled “BINGO!” Thus ended sophomore Kayden Manning’s favorite activity on campus, Bingo.

“Crap! I was so close,”  she said. “I only won once this time!” The prize she was referring to was a free meal from McDonald’s. “That’s more than you came with!” her roommate, Megan McGregor, said, “You complain like this every time.”

Manning lives in Vernon, Vt., with her parents, Norma and Wayne, and her three siblings: Helen, 16, Ethan, 14, and Abigail, 13. She is a 19-year-old International Leadership Studies major, with a minor in Asian Studies. In her free time, she said she likes to sleep and do anything that has to do with music. She is in the Women’s Choir and plays clarinet in the Symphonic Wind Ensemble. She also volunteers at Betsy Mills, in a classroom with 3- and 4-year olds. “The little girls always want me to braid their hair,” she said” but sometimes they try to braid mine and it hurts.”

Manning’s most memorable moment from college so far was a rafting trip her freshman year. “It was a real bonding experience for me and my roommate. We met our first friend, Nicole Holstein, there and all got thrown into a “Class 4” rapid. She said if she could change anything about Marietta, she would move it closer to Vermont. “I want to be able to go home more often,” she added.

The biggest difference between Vermont and Ohio, she said, is the ideological diversity. “Like, there are actually Republicans here,” she quipped. She also said that the seasons are a little bit different in Ohio. “How it can snow and be sunny and 50 degrees in the same day is beyond me,” she concluded.

EDITOR’S NOTE:  This article is by Joe Dillon, a Media Writing Two student at Marietta College.  If you are interested in writing for Writing on the Mall, send an e-mail to Patrick_H@writingonthemall.net.

Gift Guide 2009

Writing on the Mall is presenting it’s first annual gift guide for Marietta College students.  Here are the things that WotM things you should want to bring back to campus for the spring. Read more…

Top 5 Things We Wish Were On Campus

EDITOR’S NOTE:  Jennifer Kuhn is a guest writer for Writing on the Mall.  She is involved with the Media Writing Two class at Marietta College, which has been submitting articles to us.  If you would like to see more like this, just let us know at patrick_h at writingonthemall dot net.

Imagine being on campus and going for a dip in the pool or swiping your card at Chipotle. It sounds like a Marietta College student’s dream come true. And that is exactly what it is.

While interviewing Marietta College students about what they would like to see on campus I received some very interesting answers. Not all could make it into our top five, but here is what did:

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Monday Monotony-Breaker: Billy Mays Memorial Edition

Here’s a video that’s sure to break up your Monday morning monotony.  Billy Mays had a radio appearance a couple of months ago, and shot this video with the station for their morning show website.  Unfortunately, he passed away in his sleep yesterday at the age of 50.  To remember him and to bring joy to your morning, I present Billy Mays orders from McDonalds.