Noelle Friedberg

Opinion Editor

Lauren Hammond graduated from CSUSM last year with a degree in Literature and Writing. She served as the Opinion Editor for The Cougar Chronicle in the 2013-2014 school year and is currently in her first year of receiving her Master’s in the English and Comparative Literature Program at San Diego State University.

“As a transfer student, CSUSM was the first campus that I really felt attached to,” Hammond  said.

She also said she misses the great professors she worked with in the Literature and Writing Department, as well as everyone she worked with at the Writing Center and The Cougar Chronicle.

“I don’t think that I would be as successful or motivated as I am today without the support I had from everyone I had met during my time at CSUSM, and I am extremely grateful to have had the opportunity to meet such wonderful people,” she said.

What Hammond loves most about graduate school is that she is treated as a professional more so than as a pupil.

“Although my studies as a graduate student are far more demanding than the experience I had as an undergraduate, I feel much more connected to the work I do,” she said, and adds that she has “ had the opportunity to teach freshman level college courses in writing, which has been a very fulfilling and exciting experience.”

Hammond is currently working as a writing tutor and a Rhetoric and Writing Studies instructor at SDSU and she will continue to do so during the rest of her time in graduate school.

“In the future, I plan to continue my studies and receive my doctorate degree in order to become a university professor,” she said, but she also admits that she is “not sure where I will be applying just yet. I will begin looking into programs starting in the fall as I finish up my Master’s level work.”

Lauren Hammond was a valuable member of The Cougar Chronicle team and we are proud of all of the work she has accomplished since her graduation.