Nuavia Stewart The Corsair Buying textbooks can be very costly and many bookstores are creating new ideas for college students to take advantage of those options. Buy, rent, and sell options are available and can save you lots of cash and allow you to stretch your budget. Online bookstores such as Barnes& Noble, Amazon.com and...
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August 22, 2011August 22, 2011Uncategorized
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Center For Advising and Career Services The Center for Advising & Career Services was formerly the“Academic Advising” and “Career Connection” offices. We combined our efforts June 1, 2011 to help consolidate services offered to students in a “one-stop-shop” for both academic advising and career planning. Services: CACS assists students with career exploration and academic planning....
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August 22, 2011February 9, 2017Features
Learning to fit your lifestyle
College now offers online degrees Tim Ajmani The Corsair Do you have a tight schedule? Issues with getting to the campus? A Lifestyle that causes conflict in attending class? Then eLearning, Pensacola State College’s online educational system, is for you. eLearning allows students some flexibility in how they choose to obtain their education from Pensacola...
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August 22, 2011February 9, 2017Features
The Rating Game
Students, faculty weigh in on popular professor rating site A-Mila West The Corsair It is one of the most famous (or infamous to some) Web sites among college students all over the United States, Canada and Britain. Rate My Professors is also very well known here at Pensacola State College. On the site, students can...
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August 21, 2011February 9, 2017Arts and Entertainment
An unrepentant murderer as a sympathetic protagonist? It’s possible.
The Chronicles of Riddick Way back in 2000, director David Twohy brought together actors Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Keith David and several others, and told us the far-future tale of a crew of civilians whose freighter was damaged in a freak meteor storm above a white-hot, desolate moon lit by three suns. Now...
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August 19, 2011February 9, 2017Arts and Entertainment
Control the elements themselves in this excellent, but frustrating game
From Dust By Ubisoft Montpelier Genre: God game (strategy) Rating: E10+ for mild violence. A fantastical, mythological re-telling of the distant origins of man, From Dust sets you as the Breath, a godlike being represented by a simple cursor on screen, but capable of manipulating the elements of Water, Earth and Fire to reshape the...
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August 17, 2011February 9, 2017Arts and Entertainment
Wander through a destroyed land trying to repair it in this oldschool action RPG
Bastion By Supergiant Games, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Genre: Action RPG Caelondia. Once a country by degrees gritty and industrious, but also beautiful and idyllic. That all changed when the Calamity struck. Something caused the world to simply shatter, its people turned to statues of ash, with no hope of repair, and so the ending...
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August 14, 2011February 9, 2017Arts and Entertainment
Save the captive creatures and more in this unique series
Oddworld: The story of a unique, though maligned franchise. Way back in the late 1990s, a company founded by special-effects experts called Oddworld Inhabitants began a years-long journey to tell us tales of the adventures of non-human, yet sentient species on a bizarre, diverse planet known as Oddworld. The first in this offbeat series, Abe’s...
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August 12, 2011February 9, 2017Arts and Entertainment
Creepy side-scrolling game grips, enthralls
LIMBO By Playdead Genre: Platforming/exploration “Uncertain of his sister’s fate, a boy enters LIMBO” – honestly, this sparse description given on Steam’s Store Page for this wonderfully understated, creepy game is all you need know of the story when you start playing. To say much more of it would be horribly spoiling what is an...
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August 12, 2011February 9, 2017Arts and Entertainment
More indie entertainment comes your way from Two Tribes!
Two Tribes Games Another independent game studio has released a three-pack of its offerings on Steam, the game delivery service of which I’ve sung praises in the past. The name of this group brings to mind a song by the 80s new wave band, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and while they claimed that when two...