Job Fair for health programs

Student Nursing Association hosted its annual fundraiser Job Fair at Warrington Campus on March 12. Hospitals and Agencies set booths for many allied health programs such as nursing, radiography, sonography, and surgical tech to check out what these facilities were offering in jobs school.   “Our purpose is to get the students out into the…

PJC’s Simulation prepares students

Katie Coseo   Many allied health students attending PJC at the Warrington campus use the Mary Ekdahl Smart simulation to prepare for real life situations. Many students would say that the simulations are a great help for learning in that students can make their mistakes with a mannequin than with a real person.   Paramedic…

Tailgate with the baseball team

The PJC baseball team is hosting a tailgate party March 17 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the pensacola campus baseball fields. Stop by and get a chance to meet the players and support the team. Hot dogs and soda will be provided. Apple pie might also make its way to the field. For…

Club Awareness Day

SGA and SLA are sponsoring a “Chillin with the Clubs” day on March 17 by the Pensacola PJC pavilion. This event runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Students are invited to check out the active clubs on campus and mingle with them. There will also be free ice cream for all those who come…

Spanish Heritage Civic Band Concert

Preeminent composer, Robert W. Smith, will guest conduct the Pensacola Civic Band performing his new Symphony No. 3, “Don Quixote” during the Civic Band’s “Our Spanish Heritage” concert on Tuesday, March 17th at Marcus Pointe Baptist Church. The concert is held in conjunction with Celebrate Pensacola’s 450th Anniversary celebration of the settlement of Pensacola in…

A Night of Guitars

Pensacola Junior College and the University of West Florida present the 2009 Spring Recital of the Pensacola Guitar Ensemble and the Pensacola Guitar Orchestra. The free concert is 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 14, at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus. PJC music professor Joe Stallings directs. Guitarists are Mitchell Smegelski,…

Keeping up with yourself

Published: February 22, 2006 Writing a resume can be a painstaking process if you don’t prepare yourself along the way.  Employers want you to sum up your life experiences and objectives into one page (in most cases).  You can prepare for this early by gathering information on yourself along the way. Creating a list that…

Even students need health insurance

Melissa Brown Published: February 22, 2006 Are you covered?  By health insurance, that is. A study by the Heinz Family Philanthropies and The Chickering Group found that about 30 percent of college students in 2002 were uninsured.  And according to a 2004 report by the Kaiser Family Foundation and eHealthInsurance, “43.3 million non-elderly Americans lacked…

Non-verbal cues can make or break relationships

David LaRock Published: February 22, 2006 Valentine’s Day is over which means two things: A) Hallmark and local flower shops are counting their income and B) many couples celebrated the ‘Holiday for Relationships’ together or some couples just started relationships themselves. Either way, the most important factor in starting a relationship is not the dozen…

Making time takes time for college students

Pam Griswold Published: February 22, 2006 In the world of a college student, time seems as if it is moving at warp speed. In addition, having a job shrinks that timetable to an indiscernible size. Keeping up with the rapid pace can become stressful, especially around midterms. Sophomore Haley Satterfield is no stranger to this…