Tag: college experience
Opinion: Seeing myself on the other side of the counter
When I was young, I had a great deal of trust that I willingly invested into the world. To me, this trust is synonymous...
Lessons Learned: How to become the person you are meant to...
My name is Yenni Guadalupe Gonzalez Salinas and I am a daughter of immigrants. As I was growing up, my mother instilled in me...
Lessons Learned: How to write frantically and uncover joy in every...
On one sun-drenched, jasmine-perfumed April day four years ago, I picked up my first copy of The Occidental from a campus newsstand on Admitted...
Opinion: The Multicultural Summer Institute, the beginning of my college experience
Receiving an email that I would be traveling 2,000 miles away from home to Oxy’s Multicultural Summer Institute (MSI) seemed scary at first: I had to...
Lessons Learned: How to say ‘yes’ when you want to say...
My eye color and eye for photography are not the only things my father passed down to me. He also instilled in my growing...