Homemade began as a way for current Auggies to share their experiences with prospective students. Each class has two bloggers who keep delightfully detailed accounts of their life at Augsburg and in the city like cleaning tables and chairs on City Service Day, reading A LOT of books for just ONE class, and discovering the excellent restaurants in Dinkytown and downtown.

Editor Ali Rapp, a second year student who started blogging for Homemade last year, wants the site to be useful for prospective students and to give them reasons to come back. She hopes to expand the photography and video sections by holding contests and to add a chat room and recordings of student performances.

So if you want to know what it is really like to be an Auggie, read the blog of , a.k.a. “Lillian the Great,” a first-year trumpet player from Ogilve, Minn. (pop. 474) who’s thinking about majoring in history, political science, and/or medieval studies and loves RED.

And for some real honesty, be sure to check out , a.k.a. “Mismo” a senior from Villa Coapa, Mexico who is definitely himself. Luis is experiencing the joys and frustrations of applying to graduate school (“This people want experience in just a sector of life… I would like to be modest, but I may just be able to school half of them in some intellectual ideas…”) and thinks our new foodservice provider is stifling his creativity (i.e., is a communist organization). But he loves Augsburg because you can be “random” here, and that is alright.

“Augsburg is random”

Wednesday, Oct. 15

But lets be honest, we all like that. The reason is that since the essence of the college environment is so random, no one really over judges your actions. You are just seen as part of the overall randomness of the campus.

Whether you play the bagpipe in the park, come to have lunch without belonging here, dress up like a character of Miami Vice, carry a boom box around, or support the republican party, you are what just makes this place random.

To read more and to meet the other Homemade bloggers, go to . And if you’re interested in writing or have any ideas for Homemade, contact Ali Rapp at rappa@augsburg.edu.

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Homemade was created with the purpose of showing prospective students what Augsburg is really like, from a student’s perspective.

“Our central point is to show people what life is like here at our wonderful school. We try to illustrate both the good and the bad while maintaining a level of respect for the community,” says Quinn Spencer, a Homemade student editor. “We (the Homemade team) have put a lot of effort into making sure that the Augsburg community is represented by the people that make it a community: the students.”

The web site began last year as a collaborative effort between Admissions, the Office of Marketing and Communication, and Information Technology, yet it has remained student-driven from its inception.

The Homemade web site can be found at . If you are interested in adding video, music, or photos of your own, contact Quinn at quinn.spencer@gmail.com.

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