Zoë Lance.

  • Undergrad Adventures: Fall 2014

    I’m finishing a final draft of my second capstone essay this week (more on that later) but my three academic classes for fall quarter are finally over! In all three years and a quarter of college, fall 2014 was the toughest, busiest and most stressful academic terms I’ve had. But despite all of the meltdowns and existential crises, the…

  • Undergrad Adventures: Communications Law

    Besides Structure of Language, one of the other classes I’m taking is Communications Law. I’m not going to lie to you: It isn’t my favorite class. It’s at 8 a.m. three days a week, and we’re lucky if we have 15 people show up out of 50-something. And unfortunately, the entire class has consisted of lecture, the…

  • Undergraduate Adventures: 7 Seinfeldian Moments

    It’s not that big of a secret that Seinfeld is one of my favorite shows of all time. I’m essentially Elaine Benes, but this quarter especially, there have been a couple of times where I’ve wondered if I’m in the middle of an episode. 1. There’s this running joke on The Poly Post editorial staff…

  • Undergraduate Adventures: Style Guide

    For the academic year, I’m the student newspaper’s copy editor. It’s actually quite a bit of work: after the editors take a look at submitted stories, I comb them over for inaccuracies and grammar errors. When the editors lay out the pages, I look at proofs to catch any last errors before the paper goes to print.…

  • Undergrad Adventures: Structure of Language

    As an English major, I’m required to take two linguistics courses. I took language acquisition last winter, and now I’m taking structure of language. Because language is a system, a linguistics class is essentially a math class that uses words instead of numbers. In just a few short weeks, I’ve learned a lot about language and…