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This is the last one?

I had no idea this would be my last PLA blog until I opened up Sites and saw my peers posting about their own last blog. Time really flies! So, I definitely want to take some time to reflect on my time over the past several years. I remember exactly what I wore to my...

Girls should be able to have fun

I want to preface this by saying I am 21! I turned 22 in March, so nothing illegal here! With graduation on the horizon, I’ve been wanting to enjoy my final few weekends in State College while I’m still a student. I’d like to be here over the summer...

Going Home

This weekend, I traveled home for the first time since the spring semester started. It’s the first year I’ve had a car with me in State College, meaning the first time I’ve had my own travel freedom while I’m at school. I went abroad for spring...

My first trip abroad

On the Friday right before spring break, I boarded a plane to head to Scotland for my very first trip abroad. It was for my international reporting class — a very special class for journalism majors that I had to apply to get into. While I was really excited to head...

Remembering 4 years ago

With graduation on the horizon, it’s probably a little weird to a lot of people that I haven’t really thought about it all that much. In high school, graduation was all you could think about at this time of year — just trying to get across the finish line....

THON Weekend as a reporter

This will likely be one of my shorter blogs considering I only got about 10 hours of sleep total throughout this entire weekend, so bear with me. However, THON was a lot of fun, and I’m so glad I could be there for so much of my final year as a student. This...

Remembrance

This week, I experienced the first death in my life. I’ve known of people who I met briefly who’ve died but never someone who I knew closely. But this past week, my first mentor at Penn State died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He called me this...

Being Careful!

This week, I had one of my close friends test positive for COVID, and it was a really scary experience! This was probably one of the closest experiences I’ve had to testing positive (so far I’ve made it through the entire pandemic!) and I think it gave me...

Home stretch

I’m officially in the home stretch along with so many other students in the class of 2022! I just applied for graduation today, which was a notification I’ve received since my first semester of freshman year but have ignored for so long. It’s really...

Sandusky supporters?

Since June, the staff at The Daily Collegian has been investigating an array of stories surrounding the 10 year anniversary of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse case. We received a partnership with the Poynter Institute, which gave us a grant and access to training with...