Author Archives: iowathetrailstartshere

By Steph Attias Bright and early this morning I hopped on the bus and got ready for my first day volunteering for Pete Buttigieg’s Presidential Campaign. I was ready to see if my experience matched up to what I’d learned about in school and from watching the West Wing. Pete’s field office in Fleur isContinue reading “Ring! Ring!”

By: Andrea Sheetz As a very eager prospective student, I spent much of my senior year of high school browsing the website of Elon University. Probably more often than they would have liked, I reported to my family and friends what super cool thing Elon was doing, and thus what opportunity I would soon have.Continue reading “Full Circle”

By: Morgan Behrens On the eve of our first official day volunteering in Iowa, I find myself getting more and more excited to get involved. I am currently a senior, and I have been anticipating this trip since I heard about it as a freshman. I have always been very interested in politics. I haveContinue reading “Open to New Experiences”

By Kara Chalifoux The race to the White House may have began long ago for Presidential Candidates; however, Elon students are fresh off the plane and ready to jump in for the first major competition, the Iowa Caucus. It is finally setting in that this trip is real. Sure, I’ve been beyond excited to goContinue reading “And We’re Off”

By Jon Sarver Jr. From the moment my alarm went off at 2 a.m., until the time the bus pulled into the airport in Raleigh-Durham International Airport, I was very stressed about flying to Iowa. I have almost no experience flying, and I was unsure of what to expect. That anxiety quickly faded thanks toContinue reading “Eager to learn”

By Emery Eisner The view from the tiny airplane window is peaceful: the ever-familiar patchwork quilt of land we only ever saw in classic movies as kids, slowly growing smaller and groggier as it is obscured by the clouds. But according to Delta’s Flight Tracker feature, our ground speed is lightning-fast in comparison, hovering aroundContinue reading “Relative Velocity in 2020”

By Maeve Ashbrook When I was a senior in high school, I remember my high school AP Government teacher’s unit on elections in the United States. I knew nothing about the election or voting process, but after a very thorough explanation using endless metaphors, I was fascinated, so fascinated that I decided that I wantedContinue reading “The news never stops, especially for a bunch of traveling student journalists”

By Isabella Seman Waking up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed we loaded our BioBus at 5 a.m. from the McMichael lot. A couple of us started loading all of the bags into the back, getting our workout in for the day. The back of the bus was so packed that if we came to a hard stopContinue reading “Up, Up, and Away We Go!”

By Liam Collins Before landing in the Hawkeye State, the physical differences were very real. I’ve never been to Iowa. I’ve never even been to the Midwest. I was born-and-raised in a town nestled between the mountains, New York City and the Long Island Sound. I thought North Carolina was flat and wide. But staringContinue reading “Looking Out Over the Wide, Flat Earth”