By Melanie Chacon
May 29, 2019
Filed under Opinion, Columns
I remember driving into the parking lot the first day of the fall semester at California State University, Fullerton in August of 2004. It was a warm day and I had the windows down in my 2003 white Chevy S-10 Xtreme. Three Ch...
By Jaime Solis
May 8, 2019
Filed under Opinion, Columns
When someone thinks of the word ‘literature,’ what comes to mind is probably something like Homer’s “The Odyssey” or maybe something like “Dante’s Inferno.”
It’s hard to imagine th...
By Jun Ueda
May 8, 2019
Filed under Opinion, Columns
When I first started at El Camino College during the fall of 2017, my main focus was to take the quickest route to transfer. I missed many opportunities that could've helped me grow as a person because of this.During my first ...
By Kealoha Noguchi
April 24, 2019
Filed under Opinion, Columns
Throughout the day students are going from class to class. One of the most important things for them is to eat and sometimes grab something quick from a local dining place on campus.However, each campus food option only an has ou...
By Oscar Macias
April 24, 2019
Filed under Opinion, Columns
It was a normal day in January. Woke up at 7 a.m., drank my coffee and went to work. I got there, greeted my manager and started just another day.At 2 p.m., my shift ended and it was finally time for me to go home. The usual ...
By Rosemary Montalvo
April 16, 2019
Filed under Opinion, Columns
Attending a community college never seriously crossed my mind while I was in high school.I attended a high school that drilled going to college into our brain since day 1 of freshman year.There was always this negative stigma ...
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By Devyn Smith
March 27, 2019
Filed under Opinion, Columns
Before I got my license, I commuted to El Camino College by using Uber. Talking is one of my pastimes, so I would usually make conversation with the driver. The first topic of conversation was usually about EC, and I noticed th...
By Anna Podshivalova
March 13, 2019
Filed under Opinion, Columns
In my hometown of Moscow, Russia I had lots of friends. I didn’t even have enough time to meet everyone but everything changed after my move to the U.S.I wanted to learn the English language and get an international education...
By Diamond Brown
March 13, 2019
Filed under Opinion, Columns
There is so much societal pressure on women to hurry up and have children before they get too old as their “biological clock” starts ticking.
I’m 26 years old and married with no children. I am not trying to hav...
By Omar Rashad
February 25, 2019
Filed under Opinion, Columns
Just 11 days into the new year, my Twitter timeline was flooded with Bay Area journalists’ tweets—only this time it wasn’t because of lauded reporting or the announcement of a promotion.
The East Bay Express, ...
