The TCU Horned Frogs (31-8) pulled out an extra inning win against the Baylor Bears (24-17) Tuesday night at Lupton Stadium. TCU has won 11 of their last 12 games.With one out and runners on second and...

OGDEN, Utah - The No. 5 TCU Horned Frogs won its fourth straight series sweep, the first in the university's history, with an 8-2 victory against Utah Utes on Sunday afternoon.

TCU improved to a 34-9 conference winning streak on the season and 14-3 in league play. The Frogs will take the week off for finals and return to travel to New Mexico for a pivotal Mountain West Conference showdown with the Aztecs. Friday's series-opener is set for 1 p.m. (CST).

I arrived before the construction cranes and barricades, before reduced parking and before the Main closed.

Four years seemed like an eternity to me my first semester, and now it seems like only yesterday.

I remember a time before the BLUU (and before Frogbucks) when it would have been impossible to walk through the lounge outside FrogBytes without seeing at least 10 friends. Those of you who have been here long enough to remember the Main and FrogBytes (and the Wok, Eden's and Deco Deli) days will hopefully remember them as fondly as I do.

I tried really hard not to like TCU. During my college search process, I realized that as long as I could find flaws in TCU and prove that attending a lovely school in my home state would be better, I was going to be able to convince myself that this time the easy way out was the best way out. But sure enough, I was unable to. The campus was beautiful, the students were friendly and the faculty and staff were all people that I knew would challenge me. So I sent in the housing deposit, packed up my car and headed for Texas.

A recently established student-run campus ministry has caught fire with university students in the past several weeks.

More than 500 students attended Monday night's Ignite college worship. Students from University of North Texas and Texas A&M University joined Horned Frogs at the third Ignite meeting.

Paige Nettles, a senior fashion merchandising major, pioneered Ignite last semester. Nettles said the goal of the nondenominational ministry is to bring college students together to worship and hear the gospel in a comfortable setting.

While labor disputes between Sodexo and some of its employees have not surfaced on campus like they have in other states, Sodexo employees at the university may have nowhere to turn should trouble hit home.

In recent weeks, employees of Sodexo, the French-based multinational food service company contracted by the university, have incorporated strikes and civil disobedience as a part of the Service Employees International Union's protest efforts across 10 U.S. states against the company's alleged intimidation of employees seeking to unionize.

I hate goodbyes.

No, seriously, I hate goodbyes.

I'm the worst at them.

Not in the "I leave without saying goodbye to anyone so it's easier" way, but in the "I dwell on and almost relish in the despair" type way. So of course I've done a lot of retrospection and introspection in the past year. Everything is a "last."

My last football game.

My last campus tour.

Not many college juniors have babies named after them, especially after having just helped bring them into the world. That is, however, exactly what happened to senior nursing student Ayla Landry when she volunteered to work at a local clinic in Nicaragua during her spring break in 2009.

Landry barely even spoke to the woman before helping her through labor. She was young and scared, Landry said, and she wasn't sure who the father of her baby girl was.

Four students will represent the John V. Roach Honors College in the House of Student Representatives for the first time this fall, following the House election this past week.

Seven students applied for the four recently allocated seats in the House, the results of which were released Wednesday.

Ron Pitcock, J. Vaughn & Evelyne H. Wilson Honors Fellow, said the diverse interests of honors students will be an asset to the House's representation.

Being a TCU student for four years has taught me many things, but the one that stands out the most is simple: enjoy every moment. I've done a lot of things in my time as a Horned Frog. I've been Panhellenic President, Student Foundation President, a Neeley Fellow, a Frog Camp facilitator and a member of Zeta Tau Alpha, just to name a few. However, it hasn't been the big, organized functions I will remember most after graduation.

Walking past a display of pink and white cards last week at Target, I noticed that Mother's Day falls the day after graduation. I pondered this for a minute and snickered out loud. Mother's Day? One whole day devoted to appreciating moms that toil year round? Wow.

I thought about my own mother, and how we had both almost died during birth in an emergency C-section so harrowing it could have been a plot line for "ER" or "Grey's Anatomy". Instead, we persevered, me weighing a tad over 5 pounds and my mother proud, but exhausted.

Because of my experiences over the last four years, I am walking away with an incredible sense of gratitude. I am grateful for our faculty and staff, our alumni, our parents and our friends of the university. Each of these groups of people give so much of their own time and resources to ensure that we as students have the best possible experience while we are here. If you're not involved on campus, get involved. If you are involved, stay involved.