Photo by Gabriella ChanIn your face, in your ears and — for those who don’t have a penchant for thunderous voices and spontaneous dance parties — perhaps even in your nightmares: New Student Orientation Leaders are literally (literally!) everywhere. It’s hard for anyone to imagine that these upperclassmen wake up every day with a yearning to lift … [Read more...] about NSO Leaders Exhausted but Fulfilled
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Ban These Eight Ice-Breakers
Art by Peau PorotesanoWhether you’re coming out of NSO on top of the world or underwhelmed, there’s no question that a few topics were frequently revisited. Now that the dust has settled, the following questions may very well be burned into the back of all new students’ minds: 1. What’s your name? As if the goofball name tags didn’t already provide … [Read more...] about Ban These Eight Ice-Breakers
Don’t Worry, I wasn’t Thrilled About NSO Either
Art by Peau PorotesanoThree years ago, overenthusiastic volunteers in neon orange screamed, “Welcome to Pepperdine!” as my polite father smiled awkwardly in the car rental that was 80 bucks cheaper but not nearly spacious enough for a family of five. The sea of orange is a shade so striking that lawmakers in the 1970s reserved it exclusively for prisoners. I … [Read more...] about Don’t Worry, I wasn’t Thrilled About NSO Either
It’s Time to Live Life, Not Dream It
Here we are, just a few weeks left of school, and I’m that senior who is and isn’t ready to graduate. I find myself lying awake at night reflecting upon my college experience and my transition from the lower east side of Manhattan to the lower West Coast. California and my experience, at Pepperdine are the reasons I can’t and don’t want to sleep. I am … [Read more...] about It’s Time to Live Life, Not Dream It
Making a Case Study on Memory
When I was younger, I looked at the globe — still unfamiliar with its geography and personality — and thought: “This is the world. This is it. With all the war and selfishness of history, we have arrived at this permanent place in time. The time where everything became what it was forever meant to become.” In the past year alone, that idealism has … [Read more...] about Making a Case Study on Memory
