If you’re anything like me, before you came to PCC, you had visions of college professors being seven-foot-tall fire-breathing dragons who bled red ink and ate freshmen for a light midday snack. Okay, maybe not quite that drastic, but you were still probably intimidated by the prospect of having college professors in college classes. Okay, step one to humanization—parents. No, […]
We’ve made it! Well, what I mean to say is that we went from January 1st to December 31st of 2016, and we’re still here living life. For many of us, 2016 was a year when we faced new life experiences, some a little more grand than others. Freshmen had their first semester at college, I got to cast my […]
"We Wish You a Merry Christmas"—What can be better than nights of fun, laughter, and enchanting events? After all, “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”—Charles Dickens This week, PCC is putting on Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, perhaps my favorite Christmas production of all time. Now I'm not saying I've been anticipating this Fine Arts […]
It's that time again: test time. Not only have we all taken unit tests, but we've faced midterms and survived. (yay!) Sometimes when we get a grade back, it isn't what we were expecting, for better or for worse. While the grade that we receive is important, many of us fall into the trap of only looking at that grade. Don't forget to […]
"I love how clean the facilities are!" "I had so much fun at camp this summer!" "I called the college for information, and I had my question answered so quickly!" These are all things I have heard from parents, students, and visitors. Some of these people don't realize that PCC has a student work program and are surprised to find […]