by jmc7727 | Apr 17, 2022 |
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...
by jmc7727 | Mar 27, 2022 |
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...
by jmc7727 | Mar 20, 2022
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...
by jmc7727 | Feb 26, 2022 |
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....
by jmc7727 | Feb 20, 2022 |
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...
by jmc7727 | Feb 6, 2022 |
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...
by jmc7727 | Jan 30, 2022 |
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...
by jmc7727 | Jan 15, 2022
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...
by jmc7727 | Dec 5, 2021 |
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...
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