The writing’s on the stalls

“Always keep your head up. Take a risk and get your heart broken. Love if they love you the same. If not, let go and don’t look back. Be proud of yourself everyday.” This was one of the many inspiring messages written on the stall of one women’s restroom at Pierce College.

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Call 911 for ‘Reno 911’

In 84 minutes, “Reno 911!: Miami” convinced me that writers have run out of creativity and major movie studios have lost their ability to discern between funny and obscene. This was after sitting through a brainless and repetitive compilation of foolish jokes that seemed to have been written by a 7-year-old.

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What do you want to be when you grow up?

Ask almost any student on the Pierce campus what they want to do with their life and you’ll get the same response: a shrug of the shoulders and a blank look. It seems that despite enrolling for classes, declaring majors and planning transfers to four-year universities, many students still haven’t conjured up a response to the age old question “What do you want to be when you grow up?” To be fair, almost everyone has a vague idea of what interests them and what they’d like to avoid at all costs.

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New bill lowers student loan debt

The future of college students across America is looking brighter, economically speaking, after the House of Representatives voted to cut student loan interest costs in half. The College Student Relief Act of 2007 will benefit more than five million undergraduate students across the country.

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Is counseling enough to transfer?

They say the act of transferring from community college to a four-year university has slowly become a thing of the past. They say due to a student’s lack of understanding for the IGETC (Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum), money spent for unnecessary units and stacks of books is being thrown away and lost in a sea of ignorance.

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