Five freshman senators elected to Student Government Association
Mandi DeLong, Contributing Writer
October 9, 2020
Mercer’s freshman class of 2024 elected their class senators to the Student Government Association this past month.
Mercer enrolls 951 new undergrad students amid pandemic
Henry Keating, Contributing Writer
October 7, 2020
Mercer University enrolled 951 new residential undergraduate students this year, even amid a pandemic that threatened college admissions nationwide.
What I learned during my first semester of college
McKenna Kaufman, Staff Writer
February 25, 2020
While I had anticipated an influx of knowledge and ideas that I had never encountered before, the lessons I learned in five short months spanned far past my academics and instead impacted how I approached my life as a student, woman, young adult and member of society.
Get to know new Bears
Kyle Mullins, Contributing Writer
September 15, 2016
Every year, a new class makes their mark on Mercer's campus. Here are some of the fresh faces you'll be seeing this fall!
Senior shares sage advice for first-year students
Marin Guta, Digital Editor
August 13, 2015
Dear Freshman, Congratulations, you’re finally out of the house embarking on this crazy journey called college. You may feel excited about exploring your newfound independence, or maybe you’re absolutely terrified about being away from home. Maybe you’re nervous about entering the r...
Welcome to Macon, freshmen. You have no excuse to be bored.
Brittani Howell
August 15, 2012
Welcome to Mercer, new Mercerians! Hopefully you will come to love this university and this city—with all its ups and downs—as much as we do now after you’ve been here a few years. A word of advice: get to know this town. Macon has a tough reputation from the outside world, but it also has a rich...
Welcome class of 2016
Kaleigh Manson
August 15, 2012
Mercer University will welcome the incoming Class of 2016 as the majority of incoming students will begin to move in to their dorm rooms on Aug. 18. In order to aid the freshman class with transitioning from high school to college, Bear Beginnings is organized to give the incoming students and their f...
What to know about the freshman fifteen
Emily Farlow
August 15, 2012
Freshman hear many rumors--true and untrue--about college life. One of the more infamous rumors is about the dreaded “Freshman 15”: gaining weight during the first year of college. While 15 pounds may be an arbitrary number, many freshman find themselves a few pounds heavier by the end of their spring seme...