End of an Era

This summer has been, in short, one of the most enlightening phenomenal summers of my life. Until this year, I have spent every summer for the past eight years at a homey little summer camp in East Texas. That camp was what I considered to be my livelihood, my second home, my family, and my [...]

LA Bucket List

In our apartment, we have a big poster that says “Los Angeles Summer 2011 Bucket List.” It’s large and colorful and busy, with a million different wants scrawled across it in an array of markers that have somehow seeped into every crevice in our apartment by now. Week by week, the four of us, Kierstin, [...]

My LA in 50 Words

…by Celeste Smith. Between sapphire oceans and jagged peaks, the city of angels, always moving. Hated by many, adored by me. Late nights, mountaintop sunrises, hard work, wild play. I came with naïve expectations and walk away a Californian.  One last perfect year in the Elon Bubble, but I’ll be back home soon, LA.

The Little Things

Sometimes it’s the little things in life that can light up your whole day… Making it through the light at Hollywood and Highland without traffic. Seeing a celebrity. Cheap yogurt at Menchie’s. An impromptu concert on the boardwalk near the beach. Driving down sunset at 3 a.m. and no one’s there. Walking onto your balcony [...]

Animals and Adventures

If there’s one thing that I can claim to be true, it’s that I love the zoo. For a long time when I was younger, I wanted to be a biologist – and then I found out to do that you had to take a lot of science classes, and promptly changed my career aspirations [...]

One Day at the Getty

As the daughter of a woman who possesses a Master’s Degree in Art History, I am expected to be appreciative of the fine arts. I’m expected to know my baroque from my impressionism and a Monet from a Manet. I’m expected to appreciate both naked people and heavy religious undertones in paintings. And, on occasion, [...]

Mountaintops and Models

I love photography. It’s something I’ve always done, and a skill I never want to lose. So when our first OTF (on-the-fly for those of you not in the production world) assignment was to trudge up to the Hollywood Sign in the hills and take photos of our classmates, I was more than pleased to [...]