The Jose M. Calhoun Learning Center, located on the third floor of the Griswold Library, offers numerous resources for students looking for extra help with their work. The LC teaches the English as a Foreign Language program and offers academic counseling and skills workshops on note-taking, test taking, time management, college writing, and computer applications, [...]
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The Progressive Program: Why on earth don’t more people know about it?
BY NOAH PAPPANO The brochure to the Progressive Program (PP) states: “People are better learners when they’re passionate about what they learn. Students in the program bring forth the inquisitiveness to discover their truest passions, and the motivation to follow those pursuits intensively.” With only 32 students enrolled in the program at any one given [...]
What or who is slowing down the campus Internet again?
BY NOAH PAPPANO All over campus you can hear students complaining about the slow Internet. For some, it can take as much as three to five minutes for their e-mail to load and much longer for a .pdf file or a video streaming site. The administration is aware of this problem. In fact, they are [...]
A semester’s study in South Korea
BY NOAH PAPPANO After 23 hours of traveling by taxi, bus, planes, and finally car, I had made it back to America and safely ensconced in San Diego after dropping 13 time zones and swapping a humid jungle in the height of monsoon season to a desert with Mediterranean breezes. But how did I do [...]
Decisions, Considerations, Truth
BY NOAH PAPPANO Having an inveterate laissez faire attitude towards government and politics, it is strange I should find myself fired up about November 4. All summer I watched the news channels every time I could. However, when the stinking Olympics began, I couldn’t find any news to my great chagrin, as everyone in the [...]
You’ll Remember Being There
BY NOAH PAPPANO You’ll remember being there. Questioning, doubting, fearing, loathing, loving, hating, gripping, wanting to be done with it, for once, for all, for good. You went in with so many expectations, you went in with high hopes. What happened? I thought I gave all of me, for once, in celebration of this moment, [...]
