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Experience

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Experience

The student news site of Los Medanos College

Experience

Transferring during COVID-19

Transferring during COVID-19

Katie Loughran, Features Editor
April 21, 2020

How do you plan for a pandemic? Maybe you stock up on essentials, save some emergency funds or buy stock in Zoom. How does a college student plan for a pandemic? Maybe they buy extra packets of ramen and...

The young and the young at heart should stay inside (or donate blood)

The young and the young at heart should stay inside (or donate blood)

Adriana Ivanoff, Perspectives Editor
April 9, 2020

Streets are barren and the silence is palpable.When you wander outside to the only open places of business — a grocery, construction store, or emergency locations such as hospitals, vets, and dentists...

Stop the stigma on mental illness

Dante Harrold, Staff Writer
November 22, 2019

Mental illness is often unjustly blamed for massive problems that plague society. It is often the first thing many politicians blame for great acts of violence in the nation. For exam- ple President Trump...

Fake it and you won’t make it

Jordyn Toscano, @jordyn.toscano
November 22, 2019

Many individuals believe that if you pre- tend to be confident, you eventually become confident. There was a time where I fell for this concept as well. Throughout the beginning of high school,...

Image of beauty is toxic in more ways than one

Adriana Ivanoff, Staff Writer
October 31, 2019

In 2018, a three-year-old toddler was hospitalized after playing with a dollar store toy makeup kit. This toxic makeup caused such a horrendous reaction that the intense blistering around her mouth left...

Embrace new networking tactics

A.R. Broom, [email protected]
February 21, 2018

There are more than a few good practices that people use when successfully networking, but prior to enacting those practices, you actually have to meet the person. With the Internet well underway, it is...

Gentrification lessens the character of cultural hubs

Lilly Montero, [email protected]
February 21, 2018

Imagine a cute New Age coffee shop for a moment. Off white walls, clean wood furniture accented by little green succulents. There are also quirky trinkets or photos to contrast the green against a deep...

Why do we lack empathy?

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our life means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and...

The fake depth of a generation

I hate to be one of those people that set themselves apart from the crowd with self-righteousness, but I seriously struggle to relate with a lot of my generation’s ideals. In particular the epidemic...

True love only happens once

Some people may think it’s an ignorant thing to say or think, but I believe that we only fall in love once. If a person can fall in love more than 10 times, then what is so special about it? People...

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