Art by Christine NelsonYour major is a choice; often, this is one of the biggest decisions a college student is faced with. People often choose a major based on a variety of reasons: the title, salary, what their parents want them to do, etc. I personally chose my first major for the completely wrong reasons.I thought I wanted to work in the medical field so I declared … [Read more...] about Do What You Love, the Rest Will Follow
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GEs Slow Student Progress
Art by Peau PorotesanoPepperdine's general education system is laborious and strict. It requires students to take nearly two full years of classes before starting their major classes, and if students want to start knocking out those key pre-reqs for their major, then they must compromise. If you take fewer GEs and more major classes early on, you suffer by taking GEs for the … [Read more...] about GEs Slow Student Progress
Try to Remember
Art by Christine Nelson Tutoring a Spanish 152 student this semester, I realize how much I've forgotten — and how much I surprisingly remember — since completing my Hispanic Studies degree last spring. I sometimes won't immediately remember simple things, like the third-person plural preterite endings for verbs, but other things that I never realized I knew will come back … [Read more...] about Try to Remember
Computer science students lobby for an expanded program
If you Google “best college majors,” virtually every single list — whether it is based on salary, demand, fulfillment or enjoyment — contains computer science or some branch thereof. Yet the computer science program at Pepperdine is only a contract major, meaning students only take about half of the required classes in computer science and the other half … [Read more...] about Computer science students lobby for an expanded program
