Fall 2025
Legacy Graduate Spotlight
Graduating mathematics and computer science senior, Zack Sutter (center left), is the third legacy graduate the La Sierra University Honors Program has had. The first legacy graduate the program saw was Andrew Ranzinger ‘16, son of Alina Sanchez ‘90. The second...
Ripe: A Four-Year Reflection in One Word
“If you had to describe last year in one word, what would it be?” I asked my friends, feeling the nostalgic and reflective magnetism of New Year's. It was January 10, 2025, and my friends and I had just started a tradition of making and eating Friday morning breakfast...
Academic Pride, Friendship, and Place: The Western Regional Honors Conference
As the opposite of a morning person, I wasn’t thrilled to get up at 6 a.m. to get to the airport to catch our flight to Denver, where fourth-year biochemistry student Daphne Prakash, fourth-year history major Nyla Provost, and I were presenting at the Western Regional...
Malaysia-Singapore 2024: Reflections on Religion
Malaysia-Singapore 2024: Reflections on Religion Every summer, the rising Junior cohort travels to Malaysia and Singapore as part of the Honors curriculum, broadening their worldview by immersing themselves in a different culture. For the 2024 trip, that culture...
2025 Seniors: Where are They Going?
Standing at the end of their undergraduate journey, the class of 2025 eagerly awaits new beginnings. We congratulate our seniors for their hard work within the Honors Program and the university as a whole! Our graduating seniors will be heading to: Loma Linda...
Crossing Oceans, Chasing Dreams
Almost all my life, I lived on the beautiful island of Palau. Palau is one of the places that you must visit, as it is also called the Pristine Paradise. The emerald shining ocean, blazing sunset, and shores surrounded by green forests are what keep my island special....
City as Text: Reading Identity Through Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia
As I took my first steps out of the plane in Chiang Mai, all I could think about was how tired and nervous I was. In the morning, I was to present my gecko project in front of a room full of experts, and I had only just put the finishing touches on my PowerPoint...
Challenging the Equation
Thanks to the editor-in-chief Katie Jang, I had the lovely opportunity to sit down with Royce Olarte, a La Sierra University class of 2017 Honors graduate. We talked about the many twists and turns that landed him in a dual-emphasis mathematics education and cognitive...
Honoring the Past, Shaping the Future: Dr. Katherine Koh’s Academic Legacy
During this winter quarter, we had the wonderful opportunity to meet and speak with Dr. Katherine Koh, a historian of the Christian Reformation and current chair of the Department of History, Politics, and Sociology at La Sierra University. Koh joined the Honors...
Stares, Street Food, and Subways: Malaysia/Singapore and South Korea
They say eyes are the window to the soul, but in Asia this summer, I realized they're more similar to X-ray machines. My Asian features seemed to give me temporary invisibility until I was joined by another person of a different ethnicity, turning us into a sidewalk...
Freshman Corner: Raindrops on a Window
Before college, navigating academics felt like a solitary journey, as many of my peers did not enjoy school the same way I did. I believed I could find excitement even in classes I desperately struggled in, but it seemed I was alone in this belief. I shared the same...
KUCHING: From a Photographer’s Lens
A compilation of experiences in Penang from the lens of Olivia Genobaga during the Summer of 2024. A seamstress weaves traditional tapestry in the Sarawak Cultural Village, one of our first stops on the trip. Adam and Eddie take refuge from the sweltering sun under a...