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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
