first year

Southern California faced a record-breaking heat wave at the beginning of the school year, with temperatures as high as 108. With six out of 13 dorms not having...

Receiving an email that I would be traveling 2,000 miles away from home to Oxy’s Multicultural Summer Institute (MSI) seemed scary at first: I had to...

My eye color and eye for photography are not the only things my father passed down to me. He also instilled in my growing...

First-year students submitted their writing portfolios March 14, in order to fulfill the first half of Occidental’s two-stage writing requirement. While the writing requirement has...

Before enrolling at Occidental on the pre-med track, Mario Alvarado (first year) competed in over 100 jiujitsu tournaments and earned the title of a world champion...

The Occidental women's and men's basketball teams both prevailed in their first games of the season last week, with the women's team picking up...

Citing LA county guidance, Occidental has been in a remote learning structure for the entirety of the 2020-2021 academic school year. As a result,...

This year, the Occidental College writing department and core program rolled out new first-stage writing requirements for first year and transfer students. According to...