2024 Our Story

As our first in-person midterms arrive, it's hard not to be stressed. What can we do to check-in on ourselves and take the steps necessary to maintain our mental health? In this episode, we reflect on how we're handling stress and how our mental health has fared over the last few weeks.

Last year we thought about what it was like to make friends online. Now, we're thinking about what it's been like to make and maintain friendships in-person! Have we maintained friendships in-person that we started online? What's it like to make friends in-person after a year of isolation? Join us as we dive into the conversation.

With almost a month of on-campus living under our belts, it's hard not to think about the places and people we were surrounded by over the past year. In this episode, we discuss what exactly we are homesick for and how we've been dealing with it over the past few weeks.

How does time difference affect international students taking online classes? In this episode, Ellen and Alyssa are joined by Madeline Safavi ’24, an international student living in Singapore this academic year with a 15 hour time difference. She discusses taking a leave of absence, how the time difference affected her health, and how she stayed connected to the Scripps community.

After taking biology and chemistry classes at Keck (the shared science department between Scripps, Pitzer, and Claremont McKenna) this year, Ellen and Alyssa share their experience of STEM classes and how they’ve navigated lab online.

For the first time on 2024 Our Story, Ellen and Alyssa are joined by an upperclassman! Ana Rodríguez ’23, a rising junior, shares her experience of leaving campus as a freshman due to the pandemic, how being involved at Scripps has helped her stay engaged with the community, and some advice for incoming freshmen and rising sophomores.

SAS (Scripps Associated Students) holds elections each year for different student government positions such as class president, diversity and inclusivity chair, etc. In this episode, Ellen and Alyssa are joined by Blessing Roland ‘24 who was the first-year class president and will hold the faculty-staff relations chair next year. She talks about her experience running for SAS positions online and how to deal with the social media pressure of running.

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Online classes… are they good or bad? In this episode Ellen and Alyssa are joined by Kirsten Engber ’24 as they discuss their experiences in a Zoom campus while at Scripps and the tips they’ve been using to navigate them.

2020 and 2021 are often described as “unprecedented times”, but what exactly does that mean? In the first part of a series of episodes discussing current events, Ellen and Alyssa talk about how they’re processing recent hate crimes against the AAPI community and how to feel supported during this time.

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Recorded on March 26th, 2021

Like many liberal colleges across the U.S., Scripps College is a PWI (primarily white institution). What does this mean for students of color? In this episode of 2024 Our Story, Ellen and Alyssa are joined by Anais Martinez ’24 as they discuss how they’ve navigated Scripps’ identity-based CLORGS (clubs and organizations) and think about what life will be like on campus in fall 2021.