Graphic by Nate Barton Many people told me coming back from studying abroad can be a rough transition. After being met with an unusually busy syllabus week and an impressive mountain of homework that stretched my to-do list to lengths previously unassociated with the first week of school, I believe them. Welcome to junior year. It is a challenging shift from spending a … [Read more...] about Don’t Forget to Experience
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Study Tips: Don’t Let Finals Be Your End
Photo by Justina Huang If you’re like most students, when finals time rolls around you can’t help but feel a sense of impending doom. In fact, severe test anxiety affects as much as 20 percent of the school-going population, with another 18 percent having moderate forms of the condition, according to the American Test Anxieties Association. While other students … [Read more...] about Study Tips: Don’t Let Finals Be Your End
Growing Seaver Initiative Adds Revenue, Resources
What started two years ago as a proposal by Provost Rick Marrs, then the dean of Seaver College, is now an active initiative to expand Seaver’s student population. As of fall 2015, the Seaver enrollment population was approximately 3,200 students; over the next 10 years the initiative hopes to reach 3,664, which is the maximum number of students allowed at … [Read more...] about Growing Seaver Initiative Adds Revenue, Resources
Seaver Faculty Considers New Course Schedule to Begin 2017-18 Academic Year
A potential new class schedule has just been released to the faculty this month. The Pepperdine administration is working alongside division leaders and professors to propose a new class schedule. The idea of the new schedule is to rearrange the time for each class to match classes to their ideal classrooms, according to Karen Martin, the Frank R. Seaver chair of Natural … [Read more...] about Seaver Faculty Considers New Course Schedule to Begin 2017-18 Academic Year
Let’s Erase Athletic Stereotypes
I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t confront some sort of stereotype this week. While I’ve done my fair share of addressing grievances of minority groups in America, I have done little to explore the labels assigned to celebrated groups on campus — especially athletes. While most of us realize that the image of the dumb jock is very much pervasive, I can’t shake the … [Read more...] about Let’s Erase Athletic Stereotypes
