Carali Van Otteren
Consider Position: Publication Managing Editor
About Carali: Carali is pursuing a degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering and the International Minor with a concentration in Chinese. On her way to and from class, you'll find her flying around campus on her snazzy bicycle. Every summer she travels with her family and friends to various folk music festival throughout Michigan where she loves camping, exploring but of course singing. No description of Carali would be complete without mentioning her large collection of hats. She has enough hats to wear one new wild and crazy hat every day of the month.

Memories are something to which we give great importance.  We put both the good and the bad memories in a box–locked up, never to be tampered with.  We pull them out, as if thumbing through a stack of old photos, to reminisce about how things might have been at that time.  Memories form a basis for [...]

by Carali Van Otteren, March 25, 2013

With midterms fast approaching, my schedule seems to fill up instantaneously as I find myself planning every minute to make sure that I can complete all assignments and tasks that are generated from my full class load, part time job, and two clubs.  When trying to plan a time to finish up an assignment, I tell myself, [...]

by Carali Van Otteren, February 18, 2013

Last week, with the reveal of the most recent Consider publication “#shitnobodysays: Is that Grammatically Correct?”, the Consider team had the amazing opportunity to discuss the topic of language appropriateness with our counterpoint writer, Dr. Anne Curzan.  Amongst the diverse and incredibly interesting aspects mentioned, one question really stood out as one that I have [...]

by Carali Van Otteren, February 11, 2013

If asked to list the prevailing social debates in the United States, most people would start to list things like homosexual equality, healthcare, and education.  While the United States is attempting find a solution for these issues that would be appropriate for all of its citizens, many other countries already have a comfortable fix for [...]

by Carali Van Otteren, February 4, 2013

I swear, every time I come back to school after a break at home, I have to swing my sleep schedule back around.  Going home gives me the chance to catch up with my parents, siblings, and friends, often at the cost of sleep.  After sleeping one hour Monday night and twelve hours Tuesday night, [...]

by Carali Van Otteren, December 3, 2012

I don’t think that I can look at food ever again. This year my family attended two Thanksgiving dinners and munched on miles of leftovers.  I got all of the green bean casserole I could have ever dreamed of.  One strange thing is I don’t care that much for turkey.  Being that turkey is a [...]

by Carali Van Otteren, November 26, 2012