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significant impact upon the community. “I was impressed by the high level of music making by everyone on stage, ensembles and soloists.  Wow!  And then the audience sang the first carol, and I mean, really sang!  I felt I had arrived at some sort of musical utopia.” What’s a typical day like at PLU for you?There is never a typical day, it is always different.  But generally speaking, each morning I will be teaching, preparing to teach, or grading.  Then I might have an advising appointment with a student

start repaying the student loans. On the other hand, if I completed my degree it would be almost a year before I would start making payments. Since I never once had a well paying job lined up during these episodes, her argument was most compelling. This was one very practical aspect of college that helped to keep me going. Benefits of a PLU Education The benefits of a PLU education are many but there are two, in my view, that stand above the rest. One is the liberal arts education which helped me to

competition, our accommodations, and many other details.  The region we are in is just beautiful, and we have a very nice view of the Alps from our accommodations at the Bavarian Music Academy. We are also fortunate to have along with us now not one, but a total of three composers whose repertoire we are performing – our very own Brian Galante (“Exsultate”), student composer and Choir of the West performer, Austin Schend (“To Achieve Thine Ends”), and now Daniel Knaggs whose work “Of Time and Passing” has

, is anyone in need that God places in our path. So Philipp Nordquist’s history of PLU is appropriately entitled, Education for Service. At PLU, we teach about what Luther called vocation, i.e., the place where God calls us where our deep joy and the world’s deep hunger (i.e., our neighbor’s need) come together. You can’t get away from vocation at PLU. Every student and faculty member, every administrator and staff-person, everyone on campus regularly thinks, talks, and writes about vocation. We

, encouraged deLohr, the shy first-year student, to audition for a leading role. “I was like, ‘If you audition for Sally Bowles, you’re going to be cast as Sally Bowles,’” remembers Huertas. “I bullied her into auditioning.” “Hey, don’t bully,” scolds deLohr playfully. “It’s okay, because I bullied you into becoming my best friend,” Huertas quips back through an adoring smile. Seventeen years and countless productions later, the two friends still swell with pride as they remember the shock of their older

burning of Moscow, the mot de Cambronne at Waterloo, and the injunction to the condemned Louis XVI: “Fils de saint Louis, montez au ciel!”  A student using one of the printing press in the Thorniley Collection in PLU’s Book Arts program, 2017 Count Rostopchin, as governor of Moscow, was supposed to have set fire to Moscow in 1812 rather than allow Napoleon to enjoy possession of the Russian capital; General Cambronee was said to have riposted “Merde!” to English demands for surrender at Waterloo in

September 4, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bfe90PTrXY Pacific Lutheran University Inaugural Address By President Thomas W. Krise Before we get started, I’d like to have a word with the brand new freshmen and transfer students. You are, after all, MY class.  We all become Lutes together today. I have proof that being a new college president is just like being a new student. First, I’m pretty nervous. And excited. Second, what did your mom say to you when you said goodbye last Friday

do this. I failed this class. I didn’t get this.” I didn’t fail a class by the way. Amy Young: Of course. Jp Avila: I was a perfect A student all the way through. Learning that there’s failure in the things that we do in life and that even on a daily basis, that there are little things that happen that are course corrected, is an important part. It shows that we’re all human, that humanity has an ups and downs. Hopefully, the students see that as a opportunity to say, “Oh, okay. You can do it

Transfer alum finds community at PLU on and off the court Posted by: vcraker / September 9, 2021 September 9, 2021 Read Previous Alumni mentorship helps student land dream internship in Boston Read Next PLU named 3rd best college for value in the West LATEST POSTS You Ask. We Answer. What are my opportunities in the Music Program? April 26, 2024 You Ask. We Answer. How is your Biology program? April 26, 2024 You Ask. We Answer. How is your Education program? April 26, 2024 Major Minute: English