The top 1 percent earn $500,000 or more — a great income. Most people only get to that level after many years of hard work, and quite possibly the accumulation of serious debt to fund their education and build their business.
Of course, there are people who make more than $500,000...
There are palm trees all alongside the roads. Cacti decorate the mountains. The sun is shining bright and I know I am now in California.
In January 2016, I started my Global Undergraduate Exchange Program at CSUSM. In my home country of China, I am a senior, and while deciding to experience...
As I reminisce about my time as a Cougar, I realize I learned a lot of useful life lessons that are important for college students to know, especially incoming freshmen and transfer students. College is a time to learn not only about a future career, but about yourself.
When freshmen...
Pierson Cepeda, Assistant Web & Social Media Manager
• May 11, 2016
As my time as a student of CSUSM comes to an end, I continually struggle with what graduating from college means.
I believe these thoughts manifest themselves in other questions. Did I waste my time? What am I going to do after college? Where is life going to lead me?
This does...
College is quite the journey. Graduating from CSUSM in less than two weeks has me looking back on this adventure of mine. This road has taken me six full years to complete and not a moment was wasted.
Leaving CSUSM is a very joyous and bittersweet event for me. I went to CSUSM as a...
Life as an art student is pretty hectic at times.
Though we may not be cramming for exams that require us to look through hundreds of pages in big expensive text books or even have two or three binders full of notes to go over, we know a different type of struggle.
The number of...
Lexy Perez, Arts & Entertainment Editor
• May 11, 2016
Sometimes it can be hard to have a kind heart in a cruel world, but for graduating senior Tiffany Trent, following her heart is the only way she knows how to live her life.
For as long as she could remember, she has aspired to help those in need as a career, not for the sake of earning...
College is quite the journey. Graduating from CSUSM in less than two weeks has me looking back on this adventure of mine. This road has taken me six full years to complete and not a moment was wasted.
Leaving CSUSM is a very joyous and bittersweet event for me. I went to CSUSM as a transfer student...
As I reminisce about my time as a Cougar, I realize I learned a lot of useful life lessons that are important for college students to know, especially incoming freshmen and transfer students. College is a time to learn not only about a future career, but about yourself.
When freshmen and transfer...
When I first found out what vegan meant, I thought the concept of not eating milk, dairy, eggs or honey was very unusual. When I first tried a vegan cookie, I thought it was disgusting. I never thought I would become a vegan one day.
I have been a vegan for over a year now, and changing my lifestyle...
Reading is one of my favorite things to do in this world. The bookshelves in my room are overflowing (literally) with books of all kinds. While Barnes & Noble is the most obvious place to purchase books, Amazon is superior in nearly every way.
Being on that infamous starving student budget,...
In any story, there is a protagonist and an an antagonist. The audience generally rallies behind the protagonist to overcome the antagonist, but what if there is no antagonist? What if there are two protagonists fighting against each other and the audience is divided about which side they should stand...
