Brian McLellan The Corsair With the new school year upon us, it’s time once again for the Lady Pirate Volleyball team to serve up a new season at Pensacola State. The Pirates are coming off a 17-11 season last year, including a 3-0 sweep against Panhandle Conference foe Gulf Coast College for the conference championship. The season ended early, however,...
High school to college: the transition
Tim Ajmani The Corsair My old high school principal’s huge motto for my senior year was “choices.” How do I remember that? He only mentioned it a couple thousand times before I graduated, which got quite boring and repetitive to say the least. But, he had a critical purpose in stressing this. A high school graduate has many paths to...
Kudos, PSC
Tim Ajmani The Corsair This summer has been a nightmare for many athletic programs in the NCAA. Prestigious universities in the country, including Ohio State University and the University of North Carolina, have had their names and reputations tarnished by sports scandals. Throw in the NFL and NBA lock outs, and it puts most of us in a gloomy mood...
The art of the toast
Nuavia Stewart The Corsair Have you ever been in a position where you were asked to speak in front of a crowd of people on the fly? Fear and anxiety sets in, and suddenly your thoughts go blank. Well, fear no more. Toast of the Coast, located on the Pensacola Campus, is part of Toastmasters International, a non-profit educational organization ...
Buying textbooks online may save money
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 Dealoz.com offer a variety of...
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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. We help students make an...
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 State College. Students have the...
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 post their opinions anonymously about...
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 trapped on a desolate planet...
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 many lands your followers travel...