• Supplemental Education… The Beacon

    Christian Guthrie Communication & New Media Major   Southern Maine Community College is filled with a myriad of opportunities to further support a student’s ambition. Whether it be a passion in filmmaking, design, or writing, the campus is constantly looking to help students realize their full potential. The Beacon in particular is a perfect candidate for those aspiring to be… Read more

  • Why I’m Not Moving to Canada if Trump Is Elected

    Alex Serrano Communications & New Media Major   Let’s imagine for five seconds that Donald J. Trump has been elected as the forty-fifth President of the United States (and try not to have an aneurysm). Imagine thousands of Muslim immigrants being shuttled out. Imagine a war brewing in Mexico over a big wall. Imagine the social, political, and economic unrest that would… Read more

  • On Moving on: A College Student’s Guide to the Galaxy

    Evelyn Waugh Physics Major   RULE NUMBER ONE: DON’T PANIC Know that you are a like a star. Not a star in the vain sense, or one that is stuck in an everlasting orbit. Truly a star: a thermonuclear ball supported by its own gravity, six hundred million kelvin bright, thermonuclear, iron fusing ball of purpose. You may find yourself at a… Read more

  • The Elephant in the Room

    Barbara Duff Communications & New Media Major   Communications Technology is intimidating if you are a senior citizen. My first exposure to a computer did not happen until I was 50 years old. Even then, because I am a writer, all I really learned how to do was word processing. My next learning curve came when cameras went digital. I still,… Read more

  • Why Your Decision to Attend SMCC Was the Best Choice You’ve Made

    Noah Williams Liberal Studies Major   In the world of bright eyed co-eds who flock to our state to attend one of many prestigious four year universities, there is an outrageously false belief that a community college is in somehow not a “real school.” Somewhere along the path to the rumor factory, the validity of an associate’s degree (an extremely… Read more

  • Fear and Loathing in the TinderSphere

    Fear and Loathing in the TinderSphere

      Noah Williams Liberal Studies Major Illustration by Alex Serrano   The body next to you stirs as the chime of a phone stirs you from fitful sleep. Alone in the silence now, you recall the myriad of poor choices that have put you here: the cheap Italian restaurant in Westbrook, thinly veiled conversation, virile reptilian lust, laziness,… Read more