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Lowering Costs and Stress on the Linn-Benton Loop

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  Photo Courtesy of Albany Transit website HEADLINE: Lowering Costs and Stress on the Linn-Benton Loop BYLINE: Mike McReynolds Congratulations on taking the big step of furthering your education. Taking the first steps towards becoming an adult can be stressful, but don’t be scared. If you have a car or some other form of transportation, you know the cost it entails maintaining and fueling that vehicle so you can get to your classes on time. Here is one way to relieve that stress with an alternative to driving.    The Linn-Benton Loop is a fareless transportation service between Albany and Corvallis, running Monday through Friday. It starts at 6:55 a.m. from LBCC. There are three different routes to choose from that may fit your schedule and location. The Loop picks up and drops off near the Benton Center as well as the OSU campus in Corvallis.  You will be getting tons of advice in college. Some good, some bad. Now comes mine. After starting college again following ...
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10 Questions with Majestik De Luz

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  10 Questions with Majestik De Luz Do you seem to be just going through the motions? Trying to get to your classes on time. Making sure you put everything you need in your backpack for that day. Stressing so much over one class’s homework that you get behind on all the work in your other classes?  What you need is some help coping. Someone to be your champion that will help you be successful in this next stage in your college life. That is the big difference between high school and college.  LBCC has a whole department dedicated to academic success coaching. You can find these amazing people on the second floor of Willamette Hall. Right next to the math tutors.  We sat down with one of their newest coaches, Majestik De Luz. She came to LBCC after graduating from Pacific University in Forest Grove with a bachelor's degree in psychology and philosophy. She is enrolled at Oregon State University and will earn her master's degree in applied ethics alongside a certificat...
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DO YOU NEED HELP WITH STRESS! LBCC has a place for you.

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  HEADLINE: Need Help? LBCC Has a Place for You BYLINE: Mike McReynolds Feeling the stress of finals looming over your head? Having anxiety over your grades and don’t know how you're going to improve them? There is plenty of help available on LBCC’s Albany campus. The college’s Learning Center, located above the library in Willamette Hall, has tutors for whatever field of study you might need help in. LBCC also recently added a Tech Room with someone there to help.  If you don’t know where to go once you get to the Learning Center, go to the help desk which is located against the back wall.  The Math Café, also in Willamette Hall, has excellent helpers as well as a coffee machine, charging ports to plug in your devices, and comfortable chairs and couches. There’s a tutor for almost every major for you to get help from. They even offer study skills coaching in the same area. Maybe you’re just feeling generally stressed out and need a quiet place to relax and get back o...
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THE INFORMATION YOU CONSUME

  What do you consider your THREE main sources of information? This can be a platform (e.g. Instagram, Facebook, TikTok) and/or media sources (e.g. New York Times, Fox News, Huffington Post). Why are these your "go-to" sources of information? Second, how reliable do you consider these sources, and WHY?               The three main sources of information are in this order:               YouTube- Pro Democracy channels                Google Chrome- Local Now( KEZI CHANNEL 9 out of Eugene)               Facebook- Groups like Corvallis Happenings     The main reason these are my "go-to" is mainly because I can access all of them on my phone. I have double-checked each source before I started relying on them                Given what you know about or have learned about ...
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Mike reviewing Mike

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  40 Years and A Stroke Didn’t Stop Me From Going Back to Linn-Benton Community College!     Well, Mike How Do You Think You Did? I was nervous when I thought about going back to Linn-Benton Community College. I went to LBCC 40 years ago right out of high school. I had no idea what I wanted to be and wasn’t very focused. I struggled in most of my classes and after two years dropped out and joined the Air Force.  Fast forward to 2018. The year started out with an injury to my back getting off the city bus on my way to work on a rainy day in January. One MRI later and I had a herniated disk in my lower back. Surgery would have to wait because my family was taking care of my mother-in-law and I was needed at home and work.  Finally, in October I was able to have the surgery. I would have to take a week off to recover in bed. I was given the OK to go back to work at Shirt Circuit as a screen printer. That was Thursday, Nov. 1. I worked the rest of the w...
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10+ Questions for Sarah Rose Larson.

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Ten-plus Questions with Sarah Rose Larson Sarah Rose Larson has been a big part of my return to Linn-Benton Community College. She sat in the back of my first class back from a 40-year absence from Linn-Benton. Larson was there as a resource for my fall term Photojournalism class. She encouraged me and everyone in that class.  She tutored one of the photographers that she mentions during this interview. I had some of my photos posted on The Commuter website along with others in my class. Larson serves as The Commuter’s photo editor, providing good feedback on our photos and encouraging us to post photos on our journalism blog.  Larson, an LBCC student working on her own degree, has been in all the journalism classes that I took this year. Larson is an excellent writer as well as a photographer. I was honored to get the chance to interview her and get to know her better.    How long have you been at LBCC? Well, I am a full -time student. I'm in my second year at Linn-...
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