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!

The Night view from Griffith Observatory
Gotta Get Back to Oxy!

It has been a summer full of tours, reading and socializing. But the prospect of returning to campus for a new semester is a compelling one.

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Gabrielle Saliamonas Clearing an Attempt
An Insider’s Look at Oxy Athletics

Inhale. I close my eyes and try to mute the sounds around me. Moving my chalk-coated fingers ever so slowly around the pole, I make the micro-adjustments for my next attempt.

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Zachary Galen and friends at Experience Oxy
Choosing Oxy

Occidental College actually flew beneath my radar at first—I had not even known of its existence until I began filling out college applications last fall.

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activists against gun violence
Media that Makes an Impact: A Summer at Brave New Films

My name is Serena Francisco, and I am a rising junior and a double major in philosophy and Diplomacy & World Affairs.

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Darla Howell Teaching English
A Spring in Nanjing

At 8 p.m., I receive a text from my new friend Swanki, a Nigerian medical student studying at a college near mine in Nanjing. He texts me saying that he’s outside my dorm waiting to pick me up so we can grab food and later visit Xuan Wu Hu (Nanjing’s largest lake).

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LifeMoves Internship Location
Fighting Homelessness: My LifeMoves Internship

I’m Margot Heron, a rising junior with a double major in Critical Theory and Social Justice and Spanish, and this summer I am working as an intern for LifeMoves.

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Environment California Work Team
Saving the Environment, One Field Manager at a Time

Hey y’all! My name is Liz Frissell and I’m a rising sophomore at Occidental. This summer I’ve been working for Environment California, the largest nonprofit organization in the state.

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Nina Srdić Hadži-Nešić helps a student in the career center.
Career Peer Adviser: Nina Srdić Hadži-Nešić

Nina is a sophomore Diplomacy & World Affairs and Theater double major who is passionate about international relations and activism through performance. She also works at the Hameetman Career Center as a Career Peer Adviser.

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Two Oxy students on the rugby team pose together
Don’t Knock It Til You Try It: Womxn’s Rugby

If you asked me last August what I’d be doing over spring break, I would’ve probably said something typical and vague, along the lines of going home and hanging out with old friends. I would have never predicted how I’d actually spend my spring break—in Dublin, Ireland with the womxn’s rugby team.

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Oxy students performing in Dance Production
Dance Production

We never pass up the opportunity to talk about dance organizations on Oxy’s campus, especially Dance Production.

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