When Alexandra Kirkpatrick graduated from Cal Poly’s forestry program in March 2007, she never thought she’d come back for more.
But, now, Kirkpatrick is just one of the more than 750 graduate students enrolled at Cal Poly.
“I honestly wasn’t sure that I was going to go to graduate school while I was in college,” said Kirkpatrick, a forestry science graduate student.
Location, location, location. the real estate mantra seems to have worked for Bella Montaña, the Cal Poly Housing Corporation’s faculty housing development just west of campus. With 81 percent of the two and three bedroom homes now sold, the development at the intersection Highland Drive and North Santa Rosa Street is meeting its original goal, 20 months after sales first started.
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Students returning from summer vacation might find a few unexpected changes on campus this fall, the largest of them being related to the opening of the brand new Poly Canyon Village.
To accommodate the foot traffic of thousands of new residents, Via Carta, next to the Campus Market has been permanently closed to vehicle traffic, or as Mark Hunter, Cal Poly’s executive director of facility services, prefers to call it, “the opening of a new pedestrian mall and bikeway.
There is a stark contrast between today’s San Luis Obispo and the city it was a century ago. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the city was home to one of the largest Chinatown districts outside of San Francisco. Yet today, few remnants of old Chinatown remain and even fewer know the story behind what’s left.
According to a Friday report by the The Town Talk of Alexandria, La., the Northwestern State football team could be without a few offensive linemen in its Saturday game with Cal Poly. Although Demons head coach Scott Stoker declined to…
Scrolling the football roster of Northwestern State, Cal Poly’s upcoming opponent, revealed something interesting. Several of the Demons’ key contributors are transfers, including several from Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) schools. Altogether, their roster heading into the season had…
Classes aren’t always the most difficult part of a student’s day at Cal Poly – sometimes just getting to classes on time with one’s sanity intact is the hardest part.
And since Cal Poly has almost 20,000 students enrolled with just 6,621 parking spaces available, not everyone can drive to school.
Eighty-six-year-old Arlene Chandler still has plenty to be proud of when the city is swarmed with incoming students at the start of each school year.
In 1961, as director of student activities, Chandler was one of the founders of the very first “Welcome Week,” as it used to be called.
Cal Poly’s policy that all students must declare a major upon applying has been a long-standing unique aspect of the school. There are mixed opinions, however, as to whether this policy is more hindering than helpful.
Some think the policy gives Cal Poly students an edge in the job market, associate director of admissions and recruitment Walter Harris said.
1. Go to a free local concert
2. Find “your” coffee shop hangout
3. Go to the Sycamore Hot Springs at Avila under a starry sky
4. Sit on the sidewalk and eat fresh fruit and tri-tip sandwiches at Farmers’ Market
5. Get lost in the “spider building”
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Though most college students begin their term of higher education with the best intentions, it is true that no amount of optimism can prepare students for the worst, and as many headlines everyday inform us, “the worst” can happen to anyone. So how do you safeguard yourself against little things like getting a cold, to larger things such as an arrest or injury? The key term in prevention in this case is awareness.