As a Professional Writing major, my senior portfolio is a compilation of four years of writing. It spans what we wrote in our baby sophomore creative writing classes all the way to our senior literary research papers we constructed for what seemed like doctorate-level literature classes. It is filled with heartwarming nonfiction pieces, heartbreaking personal essays, and heart-stopping adventure fiction […]
Two weeks before I left home for my freshman year of college at PCC, I still hadn’t picked a major. I couldn’t sleep at night because I was so perplexed, but I also couldn’t nail something down. Out of the 58 majors offered at PCC, which one was right for me? I began to list traits about myself, hoping it […]
1. It’s awesome, so enjoy it. Remember that this special day of rest comes only once a year. It’s like Christmas (except without all the waking up early craziness). 2. It’s Dr. Shoemaker’s prerogative. That big fancy word means he doesn’t have to give it to us, so we need to be extra thankful that he chooses to. 3. It’s […]
Some people go to coffee shops and actually get stuff done on chilly weekends, but my first choice is hiking, and just recently my roommates Jocelyn and Sarah discovered the thrill of hiking on the beach. Big Lagoon State Park offers five miles of hiking trails, and we did all five, though not all were intentional. I felt like from […]
I’ve climbed a lot of lighthouse steps. I’ve even scaled to the tops of lighthouses in Australia, where the view is over the other side of the ocean on the other side of the world under completely new skies. But while it is spectacular to gaze at the thundering Pacific from New South Wales, Australia and San Diego, California, one […]