Photo courtesy of Pepperdine Career Center Career Week begins Monday and will continue through the end of the week. The week includes events at all five of the Pepperdine campuses across Southern California and online to help students make the transition from the classroom to career. Sessions are taking place at Seaver College, the School of Law, School of Public Policy, … [Read more...] about Career Week Kicks Off Next Week
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We Need a (Super)hero
Art by Christine Nelson With the recent box office success of movies like "The Dark Knight" trilogy and "Avengers: Age of Ultron," it has become clear that superhero stories carry clout in the entertainment world. And yet despite their remarkable success, most people still write off superhero films and comic books as lacking depth of story. While I will be the first to … [Read more...] about We Need a (Super)hero
Lights. Camera. Reelstories.
Photos by Zach Le In the seventh year of the Reelstories Film Festival, for the first time, the films were exclusively student-made. Students were ushered into Elkins and Smothers to view an impressive montage of the skills of their peers. The Board promised the classiest event of the year and they delivered. Students listened to live jazz, posed on the red carpet and … [Read more...] about Lights. Camera. Reelstories.
Stop Worrying about Your Calling
Art by Chris Chen As incoming Pepperdine freshmen, we were all tasked with our first assignment of higher education: the "First-Year Seminar Reading Assignment," as the Pepperdine website calls it. We were to sit down, reflect on the idea of "vocation," and ask ourselves, "Who and what has God called you to become? How can you discern that calling? What would you identify as … [Read more...] about Stop Worrying about Your Calling
Warning: TV May Induce FOMO
Art by Christine Nelson Pepperdine is known for its FOMO, or “fear of missing out” culture. There is an unnecessary level of anxiety surrounding social plans because of the worry that there is another event happening somewhere else at the same time that will be missed. If you stay in for a night, all your friends may make valuable memories without you or do something … [Read more...] about Warning: TV May Induce FOMO