Connor Hastings

January 20, 2012

Regain Your Life’s Focus by Living Outrageously

By Connor Hastings

This letter is going to be about a fictional character, who shall be given the arbitrary name of Aspen Shorelion. Young Aspen is a freshman at UCSB, and he’s feeling a bit lost. It so happens that he doesn’t know wha...

November 16, 2011

Depression is a profound learning experience …

By Connor Hastings

… You learn that eating two pounds of trail mix in five minutes is not a good idea. Of course you already knew this before the fact, but you did it anyway just to get some form of sensory stimulation. You spend a l...

September 26, 2011

System Could Forever Abolish Blind Course Selection

By Connor Hastings

Here’s a question: How do college students go about selecting their classes? A portion of a student’s courses are predetermined due to his or her specific major or general education requirements, but what about the r...

May 27, 2011

Immigration Complaints Disregard Basic Human Needs

By Connor Hastings

If you believe that there’s a “better” future out there for the occupants of our planet, and further believe that it’s worth the trouble to try to improve Earth as a whole, then we’re going to have to figure ou...