The… Anti-Summer 2018 Initiative?

Greetings and salutations. As you may have noticed, things have been a little different around here recently. A little more barren. Don't worry, it's not a symptom of finally running out of ideas. I did that about a year ago and wrote about my pencil set. Nor is it some delusion that my Naruto-Arena post …

Alumni business

While a lot of this happened yesterday, I spent extra time throwing things together for a more fleshed out blog post now. Just after Graduation a few weeks ago, I joined the Cal State Fullerton Alumni Association. https://twitter.com/jdrochlin/status/1130923180040736768?s=21 See? Tweeted and everything to prove it. After a good amount of time spent resting, helping with …

Statistically surpassing 2017

About three days ago, the amount of views my blog has accrued this year surpassed the total from 2017. With a lead-in sentence like that I'm sure you're expecting this post to be an exercise in prideful self-fellatio. To an extent I suppose it is, but part of the reason why it's cool is because …

My Senior Honors Project debrief

These graduation milestones are really starting to gear up. Today's adventure took me out to Fullerton with my parents so I could officially give my Senior Honors Project presentation. It has been literal years in the making. After I spent some time reflecting on my novel and compiling the work behind it into a PowerPoint, …

Tales from a digital voice

With the end of the semester coming up, we had our last big Society of Professional Journalists event today. It was another guest speaker: Sonya Quick from the nonprofit Voice of OC. Plus donuts. But the donuts unfortunately did not get into this Tweet I did: https://twitter.com/jdrochlin/status/1118629622063611904 This talk was slightly less hands-on than our last guest's …

Saying Sayonara to 2018

I'm sure most people would agree that 2018 was a maddening political clusterfuck, no matter which side of the aisle or where in the world you sit. While I can't help but agree with the hope of moving past that in the new year... At the same time, I sort of disconnected myself from the news-y world …

My top 10 games of 2018

I always feel like it's cliché for me to throw one of these lists together since it's something EVERYONE does. But the more I think of it as a window into what I love, the less bad I feel about it. After all, looking at my 2017 list pretty much just reminded me that I …

A smashing blast to the past

Gotta love tentpole programming. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is officially out today! Even though I haven't personally gotten my hands on it just yet, by all accounts it promises to be a fantastic collection of all the greatest parts of the series' 19-year history. I'm excited to get my hands on this sucker, because I've been …

Changing of the seasons

If I have any people to thank for just about all of the great stuff that has happened to me over the last three+ years, Bonnie Stewart has to be a big one. Today, current and old members of the Daily Titan staff threw our favorite advisor a surprise party before her retirement from CSUF. …

Editorializing

Apparently I'm such a good Daily Titan employee that even after leaving the staff I'm still winning awards and getting copy filled in print. ... Is something I would say if I were being self-serving and full of myself. Because yes, I am here to talk about how I technically have some sort of byline in …