Doing research over the summer can be beneficial and valuable for future professional and career development.   No, I don’t mean the boring, dull, book research reports many of us had to do over our high school careers. Nor do I mean the writing of college-level research papers on some obscure...

The payment of tuition and fees is the bane of many a student and the Cougars of CSUSM are no exception.   As a paying student myself, I understand and commiserate with the dismayed reactions of many students and administrators when news broke of CSUSM Extended Learning Dean Michael Schroder’s...

If you walk on campus at night, it sure seems like the cost for light is at a premium.    But if you walk on the pathway towards the sprinter station and even towards the student housing and parking structures available on-campus, you wouldn’t be faulted for thinking that the cost for light...

Lights-out on campus is way too conversative.    That’s right, I said it: CSUSM needs to tone down their power-saving platform.    I completed my undergraduate degree at my alma mater San Diego State University (SDSU), where the lights did not automatically get switched off...

We all have our opinions of our professors throughout the semesters we’ve spent at CSUSM. Thinking about past professors can either bring good or bad memories to mind. Every professor on campus is different and creates different dynamics for each of their sections. Some may provide an effective...

Mass shooting after mass shooting,t has become a new normal in American society and prayers won’t help  stop them. They can occur anywhere at this point: schools, places of worship, your workplace, concerts and even the grocery store. There isn’t really a way you can be prepared for this type of...

Save the trees. Save the Amazon. Think about the sea turtles. You might have heard these phrases in the past couple of months, all of them concerning the environment and the sustainability of the place we call home. Advocating for and spreading the word concerning this issue has spread in a multitude...

Humans are social animals. The only problem is that we aren’t taught how to be effective at being “social.”   Regular social interaction is key to a healthy life. Thanks to technology and social norms, however, many of us lack such regular interactions.    I am one of those...

In the age of technology, we find ourselves on our phones interacting with people online more than we do in person. We’ve become attached to our phones, treating them as if they are an extension of our bodies, so attached that we begin to panic when we lose our phones for a split second. This...