I’ve created a new acronym for SAS: spontaneous and stressful. Many students who have been on Semester at Sea advised me to not make any concrete plans before boarding because I will make new friends on the ship and book itineraries with them. The only issue with this is the […]
Read moreLate Thursday afternoon, just before four o’clock, the University of San Diego campus was plunged in darkness. USD officials are unsure what the specific cause of the outage was. The outage caused the entirety of campus to go dark, from Shiley Center for Science and Technology on west campus to […]
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Scenic image searches on Google only encompass a small portion of what Santorini, Greece, is actually like. Santorini is home to unique landscapes of picturesque cliffs and beaches, and it is actually quite different from what I had pictured before visiting. I was surprised to find that the island does […]
Read more“Sully” is the movie that Captain Chesley Sullenberger deserves for his quick thinking and precise actions that saved the lives of 155 people on US Airways Flight 1549. The movie, starring Tom Hanks, is based on the emergency landing of a passenger airline in the Hudson River on Jan. 15, […]
Read more“You’re studying on a cruise ship?” is the initial response a majority of us Semester at Sea (SAS) students receive from others when trying to explain our unique study abroad experience. Then, we would continue to describe the many countries we would be visiting for four months. Reactions are often […]
Read moreAlmost any given day, you can find yourself at one of San Diego’s many farmers’ markets across the county. If you’re dreaming of farm-fresh produce, sunshine, and handcrafted goods, these markets are for you. As college students with hectic schedules and extensive extracurriculars at the University of San Diego, the […]
Read moreYou may have seen her in The Princess Diaries or Pretty Woman, but perhaps the grandest achievements of Kathleen Marshall are unknown to you. Daughter of the late Gary Marshall, the director of Pretty Woman and The Princess Diaries movies, Kathleen Marshall has made her mark in the theatre world. […]
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The University of San Diego welcomed its first ever official black fraternity to campus last May. Phi Beta Sigma (Sigma), which has over 700 chapters worldwide, will join the eight other fraternities USD already has on campus. The fraternity, which was founded last May, is not an official orginazation part […]
Read moreWith the new semester starting, and all of the new people we’ll meet, there may come a time when we need to impress a certain someone in our lives. It often starts with a great spot for a first date. With that in mind, this list is a compilation of some […]
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