Honors Spotify Wrapped 2023
Each December, Spotify releases its Spotify Wrapped, an outline of listeners' music preferences through their Spotify statistics. For the fall 2023 issue of the Honorgram, we showcase some of the Honors students' 2023 music tastes. Alexandria Falvo, Class of 2025:...
Summer Research Internship: An Experience with Ionis
I didn't realize how drastically my summer plans would change when Dr. Diaz asked my SEA-GENES cohort if we were interested in an internship position with a biotech company called Ionis. When I started college two years ago, all I knew was that I enjoyed science and...
Honors Book Recommendations
If you don’t like reading, you’re probably reading the wrong books! In all seriousness, reading the stories of different people in different places and spaces has been critical to the development of my worldview. Literature fostered empathy, deeper understanding of...
Embracing the Unfamiliarity of Southeast Asia
Across the Pacific, on the shore of an island off the coast of Malaysia, I watched the still current calmly collide against the rocks before me. The scene was familiar; I have many memories from my childhood of being near the water. Over the years, I spent many...
Freshman Corner: Redefine
I have always attended small schools. In elementary, I attended a school with twenty students. Although that number doubled to forty students in high school, I was still surrounded by the same people I grew up with. I knew them and their class standing and whether...
South Hall Reopening: Featuring South Hall RAs
Hello! We are the South Hall Residential Assistants (RAs), Asia and Brian. After three years of closure, South Hall has finally reopened and we’re excited to welcome everyone back with open arms. If you haven’t met us already, keep reading! Asia My first name is...
Kuching and Penang: From a Photographer’s Lens
A photo essay capturing the Honors Global Cultures: The Experience overseas course through photography. KUCHING Professional performers invite guests onto the stage at Sarawak Cultural Village in Kuching, Malaysia. The entrance of the Sarawak Cultural Village in...
Honors Scholarship Projects: Class of 2023 Edition
In the Honors Program, junior students have the opportunity to brainstorm ideas for an original scholarship project and present their proposal during the spring quarter. During their senior year, Honors students work with their primary and secondary sponsors to...
International Students Spotlight: Follow Your Dreams…No, No, No Chase Your Dreams
Jun Yeeun: Class of 2025 Have you ever had a desire to travel the world just for the sake of traveling or maybe in search of new opportunities? This mentality has rooted itself in the minds of many young people, many of which are within our Honors community. Jun...
Freshman Corner: “Now, Choose”
I remember the first time I came on campus as a student. It was the first day of STEM Bridge, an introductory program that started two weeks before fall quarter 2022. After settling into my dorm room, I felt like something had changed. I had never moved into a place...
Reaching Out to the Future of Healthcare
When I was younger, I wanted to pursue a career in journalism and public speaking. The former came true for the most part, given that I have been blessed to work as the Honorgram Editor-in-Chief (September 2021-June 2023) and Assistant Editor (January 2021-June 2021)....
A Word with the Editor-in-Chief: Celebrating Ailinh Nguyen’s Service
As graduation season fast approaches the La Sierra campus, I had a word with Ailinh Nguyen, the current standing editor-in-chief of the Honorgram to get insight into her experiences at La Sierra University, in the Honors Program, and as an individual. She looks back...
Malaysia and Singapore: Journaled and on Film
We are told as college students that this is the time when we need to travel the world. The prospect is invigorating, leaving behind what is familiar in the United States to see what life is like beyond the constraints of our own everyday life. I have always been...
Where Are They Going?
After an arduous journey upended by the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, our Honors senior cohort (Class of 2023) will finally move their tassels from left to right at the commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 18, 2023. Later this year, our graduating seniors will be...
Europe Music Tour: A Photo Journey
A guidepost in Strasbourg, France: the first leg of the journey. A chalkboard sign outside of a local grocery store in Strasbourg, France. A local neighborhood in Strasbourg, France. The famous Hohe Domkirche Sankt, otherwise known as the Cologne Cathedral, with...
Saving the World, One Species at a Time
Imagine waking up in a zoo: sunlight shining through the top of the roof, zookeepers feeding the elephants, bustling noises of animals around you. Well, that is what Sarah Goymer, a senior majoring in biological science, experienced when she embarked on a one-week...
Braving the Wilderness from Across the Country
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 marked a significant moment for our Honors Progam. La Sierra University Honors seniors virtually met with University of Charleston freshmen to discuss Brené Brown’s Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand...
Freshman Corner: Finding Home
I never hold my gaze too long when I wave goodbye at the station. I see my mother’s eyes water while my father cracks a weak smile as the train slowly pulls away. The 45-minute ride is part of my weekend routine, yet it never gets any easier. I was not much of a...
In the Spotlight: Streamline Your Future Today with Title V Programs!
College is an arduous journey. The transition into university can be a rocky one. But, do not fret! No one is not alone on this road. There is a plethora of resources and experiences just waiting to be explored here at La Sierra University. For this issue of the...
Alumni Spotlight: Casey Jang
Casey Jang went to La Sierra University as an undergraduate student pursuing a career in medicine. Along the way, Casey became interested in women's rights and social justice. Now, she is finishing her law degree at UC Berkeley and looking to begin her career as an...
Learning to Develop Your Worldview: A Conversation with Dr. Lora Geriguis
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Dr. Lora Geriguis, one of La Sierra University’s English professors. This past fall quarter, she had her first experience teaching the Honors course UHNR 201 Seminar in Rhetoric. Dr. Geriguis began her...
Honors Program Recipe Book: Writing Process
As an English major, I did not expect to grow as a writer outside of my English classes. After being in the Honors Program for a year and a half, however, I have found that I have drawn inspiration from each of my classes. I have come to realize that understanding the...
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Delia Orosco
During this fall quarter, I had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know Professor Delia Orosco, a new Honors faculty member. She is a community health manager at Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) and is the professor of the course UHNR 354: Honors Community...
Movement No. 2022: Best of the Year and of All-Time
Music is a major part of our lives in the Honors community. It allows us to decompress and express ourselves in a different mode. We checked in with our students and faculty, who graciously shared their musical tastes for this issue of the Honorgram. In late November...
Welcoming coordinator esther olmedo!
This year, the Honors Program welcomed a new coordinator: Esther Olmedo! In 2007, Olmedo attended La Sierra University, where she began studying as a liberal studies major with plans to teach either kindergarten or first grade. Originally from San Diego, she was a...
Freshman Corner: A Moment of inquiry
Peering at the sky I ask myself a question What is my future? As of now, it has been approximately 173 hours since I last set foot on campus, a duration much longer than what I usually enjoy during the weekend at home. While I no longer wield my “never caughtCOVID...
Alumni Spotlight: Shannon Grewal, Dental Student at University of Michigan
I had the pleasure of interviewing Shannon Grewal, a 2021 La Sierra University Honors Program alumni. She is currently completing her second year of dental school at the University of Michigan. Grewal's personal experiences with dentistry in her youth inspire...
the famous malaysia/singapore trip: post-pandemic edition
During the summer of 2022, our Honors students (Classes of 2023 and 2024) were blessed with the opportunity to travel internationally since 2019. Immerse yourself into their journeys through the accounts of two of our juniors and seniors. snapshot: an evening in...
“Semper Fidelis—Always Faithful”: A Humble Thanksgiving
For many people, Thanksgiving is a beautiful time for all to come together with their friends and family to reflect on what they are thankful for throughout the year. In 2022, I experienced my most meaningful Thanksgiving to date. It all started with flying into...
No Summer bummers: what did honors do over the summer?
As we, Honors students know, life can get busy. With this business of life comes the vitality of breaks. Everyone needs a break from school to get away, try something new, or simply rest. So, what did our summer breaks look like? Here are a few things that members of...