5 THINGS TO DO THIS QUARTER

Five things to do in your first quarter

Steps for new students to feel successful

Ashley Jacobson The Communicator

If you’re entering college as a freshly graduated teenager, or coming back to school after a long time away, it can be a little scary. New students arrive every year, but it’s not every year that there’s a pandemic to adjust to. However, don’t fear! In order to help you gain a little control during this turbulent time, here is a list of things both new and returning students can do to make the fall quarter successful.

First thing’s first! Fill out the FAFSA. If you haven’t yet, this is your reminder. Applications may close on June 30th, but getting it done sooner can mean that you have a chance of a bigger award. Some scholarship applications also require that you have already applied to FAFSA, so the sooner it’s done, the better.

Secondly, apply for other financial aid. If you are in need of a little extra help, check out the Aggie Bennett The Communicator

With a pandemic this last year, causing in person schooling to come to a halt, people started to take it as an opportunity to wear their pajamas “to school” everyday.

“If you are at home what is the point of getting ready for the day?” Trevor Crabtree said.

Crabtree is a running start student, or freshman, this year at SFCC.

“It is hard to find the motivation to even brush your hair for an 8 am zoom call these days,” he said. “Especially when you ... aren’t even having to leave your house for school.”

SFCC students aren’t the only ones that are feeling this way.

“I used to try and do my makeup for my one Zoom call a day,” said Anya Deakins.

Deakins is a sophomore at EastHow To Pay For School section of the SFCC website. There you’ll find links to scholarship applications, work study, and emergency Covid funds. This is also where you’ll find scholarship and priority funding deadlines. Make sure to keep your eye on those!

“Right now we’re backlogged processing Covid fund applications, but we’re also trying to distribute CARES Act funds as soon as we can. We want to make sure that people who are in need of aid can get it,” said Ashley Johns, Acting Assistant Director of Financial Aid.

Another thing that you can do to stay productive is touch base with your counselor. Based on the degree you’re aiming for, there’s certain classes you’ll need to take in order to meet the requirements. It helps to check in with your counselor regularly, especially since winter quarter registration is coming up. If you’re getting ready to transfer, make sure you discuss your plans with both your SFCC counselor and your counselor at your transfer school to make sure ern Washington University this year.

“I felt ... more professional at least showing that I put in some effort. After a couple weeks though, I just felt it didn’t matter for my one 30 min zoom call once everyday. Just wasn’t worth my time.”

School is one thing to not dress for success for, but what about a job interview over zoom? Harvard Business Review conducted a survey on the best lighting, background, and colors to wear for more professional zoom meetings, back in March and April of 2020. “Participants were asked to choose which background, clothing color and clothing style helped the speaker appear the most authentic (genuine, actions are in line with beliefs), the most trustworthy (honest, truthful, reliable), the most innovative (original, creative in thinking, willing to depart from the norm), and the most like an expert (highly credible, you’re on the right track.

You can also make sure you’re on the right track by taking your placement tests (if you haven’t). There are new testing processes for math and English, so don’t be nervous if you’re not sure what to do. The new process is a “Directed Self Placement Survey”, which are guided self-assessments that are administered as the first activity in Bigfoot Orientation. However, before you take this assessment, and if you’ve graduated high school in the past three years, you’ll need to send in an unofficial copy of your high school transcripts to be evaluated for your math placement. It’s best to do this as soon as possible. Your placements will remain valid for three years after you’ve taken your assessment.

“Students are encouraged to take their first English and math classes within the first two quarters at SFCC. This allows [students] to use their course grades as prerequisites and no further placement processes are required,” said Kris Moberg-Hendron, the Testing Center Manager.

Lastly, try to get involved on an authority on the subject matter at hand),” said Noah Zandan. Zandan is CEO and Co-Founder of Quantified Communications, a firm that combines data and behavioral analytics to help people measure and strengthen communication. “On average, 54% of men (vs 43% of women) voiced having a clear preference about background, clothing color, and type of attire, and 57% of respondents age 18 to 29 stated a clear preference, compared to an overall average of 49%,” he said. So, might want to think about how your clothes and background look depending on how the person who is interviewing you, identifies themself. “Respondents identified business casual attire and neutral colors as helping the speaker appear authentic and trustworthy,” he said. “Patterns, neutrals, and bright colors were favored equally when it came to making the speaker appear innovative.”

Corbin Willmorth| The Communicator The Building 17 Student Union sign

campus. Now, this is not a “must do”, but it can certainly make your time here much more enjoyable. In the For Our Students section of the school website, you’ll find links for student resources, student government, clubs, intramurals, and more. Many of these clubs are finding ways to meet remotely, so don’t be put off by worries of spreading germs. The weight room is also open and available to all students. And who knows? You might meet some great people or find a new passion you didn’t

Does the way you look matter on zoom calls?

Online school changes the way students present themselves

know you had.

Ashley Jacobson| The Communicator Anatomy of the Online Student

What your background should look like is a little different. “44% of survey respondents prefer to see a wall with books or bookshelves behind the speaker, while 34% prefer framed décor such as art, diplomas, or photographs,” he said.

How to cook an Italian dish on a college budget

Cooking in College

Corbin Willmorth The Communicator

My father is a professional chef; the greatest skill he has taught me is how to take whatever food we had make a seemingly gourmet meal with it. Being a college student, my main concern is my food budget. Here, I’ll tell you how to cook cheap.

The Hunt:

The first step was a trip to my local Safeway. The best part about stores like these is that all are likely to have a kind of rewards program that costs absolutely nothing to join, which in return will make the products you buy cheaper. One tip I will give you right off the bat is to ALWAYS buy Storebrand. The most expensive items you can buy will be meat, dairy, and spices. Therefore, my first stop was in the meat section, where I found a pack of chicken breasts for $9.49. After that, I walked over to the dairy section and found a package of mozzarella cheese for $4.49. Finally, I walked to the spice section where I found a bottle of garlic salt for $4.99. After finding these, I had a general idea of what I planned to make. At this point, I just started wandering around the store looking for what I was planning on using. I found breadcrumbs for $1.99, a jar of pasta sauce for $1.99, a box of penne pasta for $1.29, and a bag of flour for $1.79. I then grabbed a bottle of sparkling lemonade for $1.99. My last stop before leaving the store was to check the shelf of half-off items for anything useful, of which I found a small bottle of olive oil for $1.95. In total, my shopping trip had cost me $30.09.

The Recipe:

Now comes the tricky part, cooking everything. If you don’t have your own kitchen and cookware, just do what I did and ask a friend with a kitchen if they’d like a free meal. You will need a pot, a

Corbin Willmorth | The Communicator Pollo Impanato e Mozzarella (Translation: Breaded Chicken with Mozzarella) prepared by Corbin Willmorth

pan, a cast-iron skillet, a stove/oven, two bowls, a plate, a knife, and a spatula. Preheat the oven to 275°F. In the cast iron pan, turn the burner on low, adding the pasta sauce and some garlic salt onto it. On another burner, put the pan on medium and drizzle on a little oil.

In one bowl, pour in a small amount of oil. In the other bowl, some flour and more garlic salt. On the plate, spread some breadcrumbs. Take your chicken and cut it vertically in half. Dip the chicken in oil, into the flour mixture, back into the oil, and then in crumbs. Cook on each side for seven minutes. Once you are sure they’re done, place them into the sauce. Sprinkle some cheese onto the top and place the whole skillet in the oven. While that’s cooking, make your pasta. It’ll be done by the time your pasta is ready. Strain it and plate it. Place the chicken on top of the pasta, spread some sauce over it, and dig in!

Corbin Willmorth | The Communicator Jars of Marinara Sauce on a shelf in Safeway

Tom O’Day hosts art exhibit “Exit-X-it”

SFCC art instructor play.” All the work that he had put retires after 35 years in the hole had changed drastically after the twenty years, most of the work almost disintegrated. Patrisha Piapot The way he formatted this piece is in a case and if you look down The Communicator at it you’ll see exactly how it was preserved after twenty years. Tom O’Day has been doing art since 1972 and teaching as an art instructor now for his 35th year. One of Tom’s pieces was in a case, it was a piece from a O’Day uses lots of wood in his art pieces. Another piece he did was with this long tree branch that he had observed sliding down a hill for an entire year. performance and installation that he did at Whitworth college where he buried thirty pieces of artwork that he had. “The idea was to see what would happen after 20 years, the performance was sort of a funeral,” he said. “The people that attended were requested to wear black and I had an accordion “Eventually I dragged the tree to my house which was nearby, with some of the surface I applied copper embellishments,” O’Day said. He decided to cut it to make it longer, afterwards he was trying to figure out how to show it. He drilled holes into sections and added dowels which looks almost as if the dowels went all the way through it. He also did The idea was to see what would happen after 20 years, the performance was sort of a funeral. Tom O’Day

Tom O’Day shows some of his art work. Patrisha Piapot | The Communicator

drawings that go along with this piece. The exhibition’s name, “Exit-X-it” has two meanings, one for him, as he retires from a long career as an art instructor from Spokane Falls Community College and the second for that X in the walls, is from a piece of art will “exit.”

Corbin Willmorth | The Communicator

A piece of restored art from an explosion piece he had done 20 years prior.

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