It's almost midnight and I'm tired. I'm staying at an Argentine friend's house, Alex, and after a long day of walking around downtown, I'm ready for bed. "Es hora de camir," I think to myself. I've studied countless hours, but I feel like I know about a dozen words in Spanish.

An Arbiter journalist studying abroad for the Spring semester was living in Santiago, Chile when the earthquake hit. Here is his journal of the events from his room in a first-floor apartment in Santiago Centro.

Andrew Ford left his clean, heated bedroom in Boise

8:26 a.m. A roof fire that spread to the rest of the building dealt significant damage to Barbacoa, a Boise steak house, Saturday morning.

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Igor is familiar with the tradition of sitting down to eat with family, but the tradition of an American-style thanksgiving is still to new to the 29-year-old masters of business administration student, and soon to be, father.

What happens when artists, geeks and entrepreneurs are all put in the same room with just five minutes to spread their ideas on anything from barbecue sauce to attention deficit disorder?

Activities Editor Andrew Ford and Activities Journalist Kim King sit down with Congressmen Dan Miller and Matthew McHugh talking about current issues in the United [...]

I listened closely and tried to understand the directions given to cadets. The task is to successfully find five out of eight land points, placed hundreds of meters apart, using just a compass, a protractor and given a list of points that correspond to a grid on the map. No GPS, and just tiny sticks hidden through out sage brush, pine trees and bushes in the mountains north of Idaho City.

I was Strapped into my four-point harness, my ear plugs were in and my writing pad was pushed firmly up against my stomach and the seatbelt. Below me was nothing but the water of Lucky Peak Reservoir. Still, it didn't seem real.