Student Voices is a blog where current students write about various experiences including academics, sports, student groups, study abroad, and other extracurricular activities. Hear what our students have to say!

Two happy Oxy roommates
The Path from Roommates to Soulmates

The moment I found out I got into Oxy Early Decision I, I felt so much joy and relief. I had put so much hard work into getting my Oxy application together with the essays and preparing for the ACT. After this big accomplishment, the next step in the process was to find a roommate.

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MAMA music club members
Creating Connections through Music: MAMA Club

The following is an interview detailing how Tzu Kit Chan ’23 and MAMA Club work to achieve their “goal to inform, inspire, and infect club members to expand their musical taste and horizons while developing a profound appreciation for music.”

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Womens Volleyball Team
Finding Family from Coast to Coast

My name is Kat Chodaczek, and I’m a first-year planning to major in Media Arts and Culture at Oxy. I grew up just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and have lived there my entire life; the rest of my family hails from various other northeastern states. So how did I end up three thousand miles away at a small liberal arts college in Los Angeles?

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ASA
Celebrating my Armenian Identity at Occidental

I look at this badge hanging on the wall right across from me that says “Activist” from the “Armenian Women in Media” panel I recently went to as part of the ANCA’s (Armenian National Committee of America’s) Grassroots Conference, and I am inspired to share what this activism looks like in my culture and personally.

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Jazz Henry '23
A Place of Community and Comfort: Occidental's Intercultural Community Center

ICC leadership is passionate about their plans for the space to be more than just another place on campus, and have envisioned ICC bringing about change and social awareness at Occidental.

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The Homecoming Schedule
What Homecoming Means to Tigers

Homecoming at Oxy is a joyful weekend full of reunions, celebrations, and activities. Sports teams play important games and our choir performs their first concert. Accordingly, we asked representatives from a few different groups on campus what homecoming means to them:

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Full Staff Photo
Write a headline, meet the deadline: How the newsroom became my classroom

It was 2 a.m. I was sitting at a table in our newsroom with three other student editors, laptops and half-eaten sandwiches and papers strewn between us.

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Students Julia Eubanks and Wafa Abedin
Getting Involved: Why I Joined ASOC

At my first year orientation, former ASOC president, Jacques Lesure, gave a speech centered on the idea of discomfort; change only rises from the discomfort of moving and shaking.

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students at the UN building
Oxy at the United Nations 2019

Each fall a select group of Oxy students are awarded the opportunity to move to New York City and intern full time at the United Nations. Throughout the semester we will be sharing their updates as they navigate their roles working with various UN agencies.

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IPO photo
My First Weeks at Occidental: Tales from an International Student

The unique and challenging nature of studying abroad has been well documented in the Student Voices blogs, but this piece is different from all of them. This is a real-life record of the first few weeks of an international student who is planning to stay here for four whole years.

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