As unique and zany as Capitol Hill is, one of the strangest places I have been to is, undoubtedly, the Starbucks Reserve Roastery at Pike Street and Melrose Avenue. Self-described on its website as “immersive, theatrical shrines to coffee passion,” Starbucks Reserve Roasteries are so grand they teeter on being…
Posts published in July 2018
I almost never carry cash. Most everywhere I want to do business, a debit card is accepted, and it keeps the lines of my pants slim to not have a giant wad of ones and a jangling pile of coins bulging out of a pocket. As has become a beginning…
To our readers, School’s out for summer! Unless, of course, you, like the Seattle Collegian, are participating in summer quarter. In either case, the values and ideals of Seattle Central College – inclusivity, diversity, integrity and education – remain salient. In the name of those values, the Collegian remains committed…
Cayla is from Oregon and a full-time student but does not not know that Seattle Central College (SCC) has a gym, even after studying here for three months. Cayla does not know that as an SCC student taking more than five credits, she could have access to the gym to…
A week ago, I received a message from a friend, asking me, “Is it great to study in America?” Since the definition of “great” varies from person to person, there cannot be one answer to that question. Instead I made a list of things I wish I had known before…
At a glance, the fact that my dad worked as a ramp agent for the airlines before I had, and that he’d worked in security before both my brother had and I do now, seemed highly coincidental, even a little flattering–the ability to bond with our estranged father over shared…
