Hello! Hope you all enjoyed your holidays!
It’s been a crazy busy past two months here at Linfield since I came back up to college after Winter break. I decided to try a Jan term class this year which is a semester’s worth of work in a condensed one month period of time. It’s really intense! It’s not something that everyone does; only about 33% of our students do end up staying on campus during this month. The rest of the students here at Linfield either travel abroad with a professor, or stay home to either relax or work.
Last year, I spent the entire two month long break at home in California. This year I wanted to stay on campus, and get one of my LC’s out of the way. LC’s are Linfield Curriculum classes that all students need to take in order to graduate. What’s so great about them is that you get to choose super fun classes to take that fall under each of these ten categories listed below. So instead of taking a Freshman English 100 level class at some other colleges, here you choose some interesting topic that you want to research and learn about for a semester in your Inquiry Seminar class as a freshman. Mine was Language Matters, and my favorite project was our Names in your Hometown research paper. Our teacher really prepared us with research skills necessary to write a college level research paper, all of which are available in our Library on Campus and through their website.
The Linfield Curriculum includes taking: an Inquiry Seminar, a class in each of the six modes of Inquiry (Creative Studies; Individuals, Systems & Societies; Natural World; Quantitative Reasoning; Ultimate Questions; Vital Past), an upper division course in one of the previously mentioned modes of Inquiry, and two Diversity Studies classes (U.S. Pluralisms; Global Pluralisms).
Anyways, I took Introduction to Mass Communication as my class this Jan Term for one of the LC modes of Inquiry, and that kept me pretty busy. I also spent part of my free time volunteering to help revamp up our student space in Fred Meyer Lounge. If you get a chance to visit campus you should definitely check it out! I’m including a picture a friend took which shows how great this revamp turned out. The new paint color will match our cafe after it becomes a Starbuck’s this upcoming summer.
-Isabella
Over the month of January the Fred Meyer Lounge under went a revamping. The original basketball floor was refinished, with the addition of our spirited Wildcat Willie. Add in the new furniture, 80″ flat screen tv, new paint scheme, and you have yourself a revamped student lounge area.