Excessive dashing is wretched — the unholy destruction of modern English. In fact employing too many dashes transforms — modern English — into — postmodern English. Sentences that once flowed logically and succinctly suddenly break — for no reason. Language becomes an indecipherable pastiche of random phrases — separated by dashes. … [Read more...] about Excessive -ing -es prose to bits
Perspectives
Our campus ranked 'LGBT' unfriendly
Ranked 20th on Princeton Review's list of the top "LGBT-unfriendly" campuses it may be difficult to believe that Pepperdine would attract any gay students faculty or staff. However there are quite a few gay waves in our midst. Just like our straight peers we chose to come to Pepperdine for various reasons including the faith-based community academic prestige awe-inspiring … [Read more...] about Our campus ranked 'LGBT' unfriendly
Leaving a Legacy
As I brush my teeth in the morning I often look in the mirror and ask myself "Brittany P. Tomlinson what do you want to be known for?" Some days I want my legacy to involve talking to teenage girls about their true self-worth and beauty in Christ. Other days I fancy being remembered as a dancing queen in Songfest. Not once to be honest has the thought "I want part of my legacy … [Read more...] about Leaving a Legacy
Not as perfect as appearances say
Our small campus is one filled with beautiful girls smart girls thin girls rich girls busy girls girls who seemingly have it all together. If you look around and try to compare yourself there will always be someone who has a life that seems easier happier or more privileged than your own. There will always be someone with nicer clothes someone whose body looks better in those … [Read more...] about Not as perfect as appearances say
Finding hope after Project Serve
After being back from Guatemala more than a week I still struggle with knowing how to respond when people ask me how my break was. It seems like no matter how hard I try words always fall short. When I try to describe the process of building the church I can never quite explain how being dirty sweaty sunburned sore and physically exhausted brought me closer to Christ. When I … [Read more...] about Finding hope after Project Serve