Megan Delp, Managing Editor – Last week I wrote about the effect of studying abroad had on my moving forward with my love life, but Rome was so much more. It was definitely an experience that helped me prove to myself that I am the only one that has control of my life and was a final step of moving forward. After experiencing a different culture it taught me a [...]

Marley Connor, Staff Writer – This semester, Crossing Borders is going to spend some time focusing on the rich cultural and linguistic environment that exists right here on our campus. Many of you may not know this, but Professor Lyndall Nairn teaches a class of six students who come from different countries around the world. This class is an ESL course, which means that these students are learning English as [...]

The culture and lifestyle that most of us here at Lynchburg College know is not a precarious one. We know essentially what will happen to us on any given day, who we will see, what we will be asked to do and what we will receive in return for any work we complete, academic or not. “I feel that, thankfully, I have a productive routine. And I am fortunate enough [...]

Marley Connor, Staff Writer - Welcome to Crossing Borders, The Critograph’s new International Column. My name is Marley Connor, and I am a Spanish major with minors in Environmental Science and International Relations here at Lynchburg College. After taking many Spanish language and grammar classes throughout my middle school, high school and college years, including a Second Language Acquisition Theory class, I became increasingly interested in the study of foreign [...]