Student Voices is a blog where current students write about various experiences including academics, sports, student groups, study abroad, and other extracurricular activities. Hear what our students have to say!
My name is Kat Chodaczek, and I鈥檓 a first-year planning to major in Media Arts and Culture at Oxy. I grew up just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and have lived there my entire life; the rest of my family hails from various other northeastern states. So how did I end up three thousand miles away at a small liberal arts college in Los Angeles?
I look at this badge hanging on the wall right across from me that says 鈥淎ctivist鈥 from the 鈥淎rmenian Women in Media鈥 panel I recently went to as part of the ANCA鈥檚 (Armenian National Committee of America鈥檚) Grassroots Conference, and I am inspired to share what this activism looks like in my culture and personally.
ICC leadership is passionate about their plans for the space to be more than just another place on campus, and have envisioned ICC bringing about change and social awareness at 新澳彩开奖.
Homecoming at Oxy is a joyful weekend full of reunions, celebrations, and activities. Sports teams play important games and our choir performs their first concert. Accordingly, we asked representatives from a few different groups on campus what homecoming means to them:
It was 2 a.m. I was sitting at a table in our newsroom with three other student editors, laptops and half-eaten sandwiches and papers strewn between us.
At my first year orientation, former ASOC president, Jacques Lesure, gave a speech centered on the idea of discomfort; change only rises from the discomfort of moving and shaking.
Each fall a select group of Oxy students are awarded the opportunity to move to New York City and intern full time at the United Nations. Throughout the semester we will be sharing their updates as they navigate their roles working with various UN agencies.
The unique and challenging nature of studying abroad has been well documented in the Student Voices blogs, but this piece is different from all of them. This is a real-life record of the first few weeks of an international student who is planning to stay here for four whole years.
It has been a summer full of tours, reading and socializing. But the prospect of returning to campus for a new semester is a compelling one.
Inhale. I close my eyes and try to mute the sounds around me. Moving my chalk-coated fingers ever so slowly around the pole, I make the micro-adjustments for my next attempt.