Category: Campus Resources
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Admitted Student Questions: Financial Aid
It probably comes as no surprise that Financial Aid was the most popular topic for admitted students. We’ve answered all 79 of the questions we received during the Admitted Student Webinar on April 15. If you have more questions, take some time to peruse the Financial Aid website or contact the Office of Financial Aid. FINANCIAL AID AWARD…
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A New Fit Experience
by Beth Royston Earlier in the year, I had the opportunity to try something I’d always been curious about — working with a personal trainer. I was fortunate enough to try purchasing sessions with a personal trainer from campus Rec, with the hopes that I could get assistance developing an at-home routine that would help…
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How to Write a Scholarship Essay
Starting an essay for a scholarship application can be super intimidating, but the good news is a lot of scholarships are usually looking for the same kind of answer. We’ve broken our essay-writing process into smaller steps here to help make it easier. Let’s get started: Write Your Profile: Jot down a list of things that…
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Why a Virtual Information Session is the Best Step in Exploring Grad School
Last July, I moved from Missoula, Montana to Portland, Oregon to pursue my Master of Fine Arts in poetry at Portland State University. Having worked for a few years after receiving my bachelor’s, the prospect of going back to school in a completely new city was a little daunting, to say the least. This fall,…
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Roof With a View
by Beth Royston The fact that the city is filled with numerous food carts is one of my favorite things about Portland. Predictably, since starting at PSU, they’ve become slightly dangerous for my paycheck. The wealth of options for lunch and quick snacks around campus is really tempting. I find myself most often visiting the…
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Getting Active
by Beth Royston I used to play a lot of sports, but stopped playing in high school for various reasons before an injury put all sports on hold. I’ve played soccer, tennis, lacrosse, and volleyball, and really enjoyed all of them. I knew I wanted to get more active again, and hoped to find something…
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A Healing Hiatus
By: Anna Sobczyk Exercise is my catharsis, and it takes something major to throw me off my routine. A year ago, that unexpected “something major” happened. I developed sesamoiditis, the inflammation around two tiny bones in the ball of the foot, and it caused severe pain when I ran. I stupidly kept running on it…
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Hike to Council Crest from Campus
By Joshua McCarroll As a student I have found if you work on a single project for too long without breaks, you begin to dig yourself into a sort of mental ditch, attacking the problem with the same strategy and thoughts over and over. You lose perspective. I found myself in one of these mental…
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Portland area winter hikes part 2: Angel’s Rest
By Josh McCarroll For my second winter hike I wanted to make a day trip out of it and get out of the city. I also wanted a place that was easy to find, and safely accessible for PSU students in the case of snow. I tried out Angel’s rest. Angel’s Rest was one of…