2009-05-13

Summer hiatus

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Readers:

Thanks for making the Loyolan Staff Blog a success this past semester. It's been great to hear and read your feedback on the topics the Loyolan Staff has posted about on the blog, and we're looking forward to getting this whole thing going again during the Fall semester. Until then, we'll be taking a break from posting, so check back in late August/early September for some new posts. To hold you over until then, though, here are links to some of the more popular (or unpopular) blog posts we've had this year:


Enjoy your summer, and congratulations again to the class of 2009!

-José Martinez

2009-05-10

Graduate Commencement Live Blog

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Commencement weekend continues with Graduate Commencement. Experience the Graduate Commencement through a graduate student's perspective in real time below....

To view updates from a mobile device: Graduate Commencement Feed



--- Los Angeles Loyolan

2009-05-09

Undergraduate Commencement Live Blog

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Experience the sights and sounds of Commencement weekend through three graduates (2 for undergrad; 1 graduate) on our live blog! Follow the undergraduate commencement below....

To view the liveblog on a mobile device: Undergraduate Commencement Live Feed


---Los Angeles Loyolan

2009-04-29

Self-Googling: a lesson in narcissism

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A recent TIME article detailed one of the latest Web trends: self-Googling. (Or “Egosurfing,” to be more derisive.) I had totally never even thought of Googling myself before reading this article and so, naturally, thought it’d be fun to Google myself, which I definitely had not done before. Since I’m nothing more than a humble little columnist who aspires to have a modestly successful column in a respectable newspaper one day, I thought that maybe it’d be a good idea to see where I stand and just how much work I have to do. I entered “jose martinez” into the Google box and let it rip.

My God – I’m a nobody.

I tried an image search first. As it turns out, when you image search my name, pictures of a good-looking tennis player by the name of María José Martínez Sánchez will be prevalent among the search results. (She’s got four names and four accents – she is awesome.) Also, almost every picture you see will be of a Latino. I was discouraged, until I got to the twelfth page of results: One of my old Facebook profile photos was grinning back at me. Then, on the 46th page, I saw my Loyolan photo, under which read “José Martinez – Opinion Editor.” One million, thirty thousand results and two pictures – one of which is outdated and the other which doesn’t even have the accent over the “e.” Things were looking bleak.

Actually, things didn’t stop looking bleak when I Googled myself on the site’s regular search engine. Nothing came up in 66 pages of results. And, Google would not let me move beyond that 66th page. It’s like it was telling me, gently, but with a pitiful tone – “Give up.” Google’s a good friend.

I should have expected this. I’ve known for a long time that if there’s anything unique about me, it’s certainly not my name. An obnoxiously optimistic person would say that just means that I have to strive to become known for what I do, rather than just be another name. And I suppose that hypothetical optimist is right, in some respects – after all, how legit is the fame of people like Paris Hilton, Perez Hilton and Kevin Federline? They don’t really do much.

It’s also good, for everyone’s sake, that I didn’t have spectacular Google results. If I’d come up on the first page, oh boy – my head wouldn’t fit through a wide doorway. I’d probably be like those people who only talk about themselves, assuming other people care about what they do on their own time.

And God knows no one wants that.

-Jose Martinez

2009-04-26

Thirteen more days until responsibility

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It's close to 10 p.m. on this Sunday night. I check my calendar to see what the date is, as I don't care too much during the weekends and often lose track. It's the 26th.

Let's see here: Thirty days in April minus 26 days equals four, and the graduation date is set for the 9th of May, so add four plus nine and that's 13. Phew, that was tough.

Wait a second. Did you say 13 days until we graduate? What happened to those four years of college, those other 1447 days? They're gone, along with the 250 Chipotle burrito bowls I've eaten over this time period.

Well, now I'm in quite the conundrum -- to purposely fail everything and stay for another semester or to turn in my work and graduate and become, well, a "big boy?" It seems like it was just yesterday that I was wetting my Huggies, but I guess it was actually 20 plus years ago.

Just another milestone, right? Right? I hope so. Because I'm planning on turning in another philosophy paper on Friday.

-Alex Tandy
 
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