Hi all!
It’s been another huge week of classes, midterms, and
everything else that comes with student life, but as I walked down the stone
path to class one morning, I realized how many people I said “hi!” to or had a
conversation with. I found that in the less than 2 months I’ve been at LC, I’ve
made many many new friends, but I believe the more important thing is that I
see my friends all the time inside and outside of class. This is a huge change
for a student like myself who transferred from a big public university. For
some of you, this might be a “heck yes! Stranger danger,” but for others, your
reaction might be more of a “why do you keep showing up in my life.” Both I
think are valid responses, but in reality, LC shows a nice combination of both
worlds: walking down from the student center to the classrooms, you will always pass people you know, but you
will also always pass people you don’t
know at all!
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| The "Path to Class" from the Templeton Campus Center to the Academic side of campus is very picturesque and passes by the Frank Manor House. |
For Fun
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| A mini-waterfall at the top of Multnomah Falls |
This past weekend was Fall Break, a 4-day weekend that comes
around the time mid-term exams begin. For most freshmen, this is their first
real opportunity to go home, but for the rest of us, Fall Break is a time to
get out into the Pacific Northwest and explore! A lover of the fresh air, I
naturally headed outside to get some fresh dirt on my boots. Our first stop was
the close by Multnomah Falls, Oregon’s tallest waterfall. In the summertime, the trail leading up to the falls is packed,
but our hour climb was much more enjoyable as the crowds were small, which
allowed us to take in the sound of water dropping 542 feet (165m) and the smell
of the Pacific Northwest forests. We also camped out at Mt. Rainier National
Park about 2.5 hours away and had some great camping, hiking, and (my favorite)
fooding: think camp quesadillas and chowder. It was my first time at Mt.
Rainier, and while we didn’t actually get to see the mountain because of the
rainy/foggy weather, we still had some golden moments, like when Jack put on
Old Crow Medicine Show’s 2012 Album Carry
Me Back and we sang the whole thing through all the way back to Portland.
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| Rainy Days at Mt. Rainier |