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My Experience as an Online English Student
by Katharine Dover I had already been a full-time community college student for two years when I decided to switch to online classes so I could pursue a career and degree simultaneously. At the time, I struggled to balance work and school because there weren鈥檛 many options available for English majors to take night courses,...
Why I Write: Creative Writing and the Fight Against AI
by Briana Kuni Imagine this: The year is 2045 and the top five best-selling fantasy novels have all been written by AI. You sit down to relax after a long day, turn on Netflix and under the 鈥淣ew鈥� section, you find movies and TV shows with entirely AI-generated scripts. Your favorite authors are now competing...
Staff Pick: One Flew Over the Cuckoo鈥檚 Nest
By Tyson Johnson 鈥� one flew east, one flew west, One flew over the cuckoo鈥檚 nest. 鈥擟hildren鈥檚 folk rhyme As you may have guessed, the staff pick for this month is none other than Ken Kesey鈥檚 famous novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo鈥檚 Nest. Many may be familiar with Jack Nicholson鈥檚 iconic portrayal in the...
Staff Pick: The Tombs of Atuan
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Power of Names By Delilah Deckert It is no secret that talking about Ursula K. Le Guin is an easy and all too common choice when talking about great authors of the Pacific Northwest. I think that is for a good reason. Le Guin is a writer of not only...
Books Are Magic
By Kaylee Reinbold Books are magic. Books bring people together. The stories that we read, the characters we fall in love with, the thoughts we desire to share. They turn a stranger into someone you understand. When you spot someone reading on the bus, and you recognize the corner of the cover they have folded,...
The View From Eagle Cap
By Simon Johnson Taking a few friends and not enough socks, I backpacked into the Wallowas over a late August weekend, hoping to connect with the outdoors and to better understand the importance of these local mountains. Designated as a wilderness area in 1940, the Eagle Cap Wilderness contains nearly the entire Wallowa range. It...
Staff Pick – Heaven Official’s Blessing
By Jennifer Mixell A perennial question for any book lover is 鈥淲hat should I read next?鈥� This is often followed by the overwhelming slew of thoughts regarding length of book, genre, time available for reading, and so forth. We at Oregon East understand this all too well. So for my staff pick, I am suggesting...
91传媒 and Treefort
Of the many experiences 91传媒 has to offer its art students, one of the newer classes is one that may go under the radar. Offered every other year is ART 310: Concert Photography鈥攁n experience that is well worth the wait. I took the class in the spring of 2024 and can offer some insights and tips into how to make the class an unforgettable one. But before you can take the class itself, taught by Michael Sell, you are required to take either beginning digital or film photography previously. Those classes will give you the full foundation of what you need to know to shoot great photos.
Introducing the OE Blog
Welcome to the Oregon East Blog! Our goal is to create a dynamic space for the 91传媒 community to discuss literature, arts, and culture鈥攁nd to promote the literary and arts events happening on the 91传媒 campus. Blogging East extends the mission of Oregon East鈥檚 annual print journal, whichserves as a place for 91传媒 students to...
Rebecca DeLore: Four Ways to Discover Art in Your Next Nature Walk
As a nature writer I enjoy finding ways to slow down and embrace wild spaces鈥攊nching through a forest after snowfall, climbing a mountain to reach greater heights, smelling damp sand on a beach, and in general discovering and exploring micro and macro ecosystems. In my mind, my nature walk then becomes a narration, sometimes transformative,...
Melissa Brindley: What I Learned 91传媒 Returning to College Later in Life
I was in my thirties when I decided to go back to college. I spent years working what felt like dead-end retail jobs at stores like Hallmark and Hollywood Video, and it seemed as if each store I worked in eventually went out of business. It happened so many times, my friends started calling me...
