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Have a Merry Oregonian Christmas
For all of those students staying in the NW over break like myself, you may be wondering what you can do over winter break. We may not have the Rockefeller tree or the Times Square Ball in Portland, but there are many fun local things to do over the holidays. Here is my list of… Read more
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What’s a Semester?
Almost all colleges and universities divide their academic years into semesters or quarters, depending on the state or the country you are in. But for someone who has never been exposed to one of these systems, it can be a challenge trying to switch from one to the other. It was unbelievably hard for me!… Read more
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Seasonal foods!
In Portland, it has been very crisp and cold for a week, and I feel winter is just around the corner. What reminds you of winter? A winter vacation? Christmas? New Years? I think seasonal foods are the first sign of winter. I have good childhood memories of winter foods in Korea. Once, after playing a snowball… Read more
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Why are you here?
This is a question people often ask. Why I moved to Portland, Oregon, and not somewhere else! Now that I think of it, I wonder what the reason was, and was it PSU alone? In order to find answers, I had to look outside of my own experience, so I decided to take a walk… Read more
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Subliminal Messages in Music?
As a PSU student, I am always learning something very interesting from friends in different majors. Joanne, who is studying engineering, told me about a fascinating study she and some classmate did on “backmasking,” or hidden messages in music. Some people believe that when certain songs are played backwards, Satanic, drug related, and sexually explicit… Read more
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Occupy the Library!
Let’s face it- this week is going to be brutal. If you’re anything like me, you don’t plan on sleeping too much. The good news is that there is a safe, warm place to study that’s not your bedroom where you might be tempted to “rest your eyes.” What is this magical place? The Millar… Read more