GSA-TROPOS (way of life, manner, style) is a graduate student association for the Department of Romance and Classical Studies and German. GSA-TROPOS organizes academic and professional workshops for graduate students as well as oversee TROPOS. TROPOS is a conference and online journal from the graduate students in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University. It was first published in 1971 and is one of the longest graduate student-edited journals in Romance Studies in North America. TROPOS constitutes an effort to create an intellectual space where graduate students could share their ideas. Along these years, both journal and conference have been organized, written, and published exclusively by our department’s graduate students and its continuity depends upon the tenacity of the editorial team, advisors, and the rest of the student body.