Secrets of the Happiest Place on Earth Joining the 3 by Jessica Bird Conversation Disneyland (Aka, My Second Ed in New Orleans Square
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The Clovis Tutorial Center’s I N S I D E THIS ISSUE: WRITEVOLUME 17, ISSUE 1 NOWSEPTEMBER 2016 Game Nights 2 Be a Gem 2 Secrets of the Happiest Place on Earth Joining the 3 By Jessica Bird Conversation Disneyland (aka, my second ed in New Orleans Square. You can get it refilled 5 Sweet Penta- 3 home) hosts some extraordi- This happens to be the only throughout the day for free. tonix Covers nary facts and hidden gems place in Disneyland to sell The same goes for balloons; if that many overlook amid the alcohol. And don’t even get your balloon pops, you can Tutors of the 4 sea of crazed fans and sticky me started on the shell- ask for another! Month children scurrying to get a shaped soaps. 10. Edible Plants! Inside Scoop 4 spot in line on the popular 5. Pirates of the Caribbe- Enter a world of sustainability rides and attractions. But Dis- an and advancement in Tomor- neyland is much more than The ride was once filled with rowland, where the rides are Sudoku 5 meets the eye! Here are some human skeletons, but they thrilling and the plants are of the most interesting Dis- mysteriously disappeared over edible! Who needs overpriced neyland secrets that you’ve time (because that’s the sou- pizza and Mickey Mouse ice Word of the 5 never heard of: venir I want when visiting Dis- cream bars when you have Month neyland— a real skeleton!) foliage?! Math It! 5 1. Hidden Mickeys! and the only remaining skull 11. Snow White’s Golden These Mickey Mouse heads resides over the bed in the Apple are camouflaged into basically treasure-filled room, between If you touch the apple by the Weatherly Does 5 everything at the park. If you the two crossed swords. golden book, the childhood the Weather find all of them, Walt Disney’s 6. Matterhorn Basketball nightmares you’ve spent years spirit will grace you with an Court repressing will return to you Word Search 6 approving head nod and a At the very top of the Matter- with horrifying clarity as the complimentary churro. horn is a basketball court. Evil Queen cackles manically. F E A T U R E D 2. Mad Tea Party (Dibs on this location for the 12. Disneyland Fire De- AUTHORS The lavender teacup spins the zombie apocalypse.) partment fastest. So if you’re looking for 7. Disney Imagineers in- Walt, being busy as he was Jessica Bird a hardcore unbirthday experi- vented their own shade of building the happiest and most Ben Bohan ence, hold onto your Mickey green. beloved place on earth, had an Samuel Montgomery Mouse ears and hop in! It’s called No-see-um-green, apartment built directly above Annica Navarro 3. You Officially Can’t Die and all of the unnecessary the Fire Department on Main Isaiah Trujillo at Disneyland industrial items in the park are Street so that he could over- Spencer Shadley Or, more specifically, you painted this color so that they see the park’s progress, and Amanda Sunday can’t be declared dead at Dis- will blend into the surround- you see it from the street! Catherine Weatherly neyland. Your corpse would ing forestry and fade into the 13. Walt Disney’s Frozen be hurried out of the park background. Corpse through an underground tun- 8. The drawbridge at Dis- It is located under Pirates of nel into Harbor Boulevard, neyland is REAL. the Caribbean, so his spirit where it would then be pro- It has only been in operation migrates from ride to ride and FACULTY nounced deceased. (But the twice: once when the park haunts the park. (Okay so this ADVISOR soul remains behind, trapped opened, and second in the isn’t grounded in fact… but as a ghost in the Haunted 1980s when Fantasyland was that doesn’t mean you should Adelaide Mitchell Mansion. Spooky!) being renovated. discredit it!) 4. Club 33 9. Free Refills! Many have heard of this fancy- Pro tip: If you buy coffee on shmancy, exclusive club locat- Main Street, keep your cup! P A G E 2 Game Nights By Isaiah Trujillo It is a Friday night and your cial. Well, one idea may be outside of texting or social friends want to hang out. to have a game night with media. Even though staring Suddenly, one of your friends and family. While at a phone screen for friends asks the million dol- this may seem a bit “old- hours on end has its mo- lar question: “What do you school,” one might be sur- ments, being around a want to do?” Without any prised how fun one of these group of friends or family is prior thought, this question nights could be. From en- more memorable than may catch you off-guard and joying some adult-style hu- what happened at the MTV leave you unsure of what mor with Cards Against Hu- awards, so get a group of you and your friends could manity to destroying friend- people together and have do. With Pokémon Go on a ships in Monopoly, game some fun! steady decline of popularity, nights offer an amazing op- Isaiah Trujillo, a game it is not always easy to get portunity to connect with a night enthusiast, is an people out of the house and group of people that a per- English tutor at the willing to do something so- son might not usually talk to Clovis Tutorial Center. Be a Gem and Major in S.T.E.M.! By Annica Navarro In the fall, I look around at the trees when I go into the year with a large amount of they take in their chlorophyll potential They start to change as I have a new year Obstacles cause me to think I am falling before me I ponder on something motivational I wonder to myself, “Where will I find my It is the conservation of energy that keeps fill?” my spirits going “I got the power I try to calculate where my center of focus should be in this mass amount of knowledge I devise a system of equations to help me because I will If it is not within a certain foundation, it find some unknowns work it out over seems as if everything will come down due to I must take the series of steps to venture gravity toward the answer time.” I have forces that pull me in every direction It appears too much when I can feel the Sometimes I am able to catch my breath in sheer stress as I clench my bones the moments of equilibrium In these moments, my brain fossilizes with However, I find myself in the midst of disrup- fear tion However, I remember to take moment to indulge in some laughter What do you mean I have all these classes I I hypothesize a new direction to steer need to take? I try to have a recollection of something in It will test my limits to infinity and beyond my cognition Occasionally I think it is out of range It drives me toward special moments of Nonetheless, I am glad I have friends to rely inspiration within the trials of this experi- on through our energetic bond mentation My static thought causes a stop in my produc- I shall remember this throughout the major tive flow of mine Multiple cups of Java fill in the spaces between I got the power because I will work it out my code over time. I find repetitions when I am in the right mode I believe a force will come to help me get moving though W R I T E N O W VOLUME 17, ISSUE 1 P A G E 3 Ratemyprofessor.comJoining: A helpfulthe resource Conversation for students and instructors? YES! Ratemyprofessor.com has NO! 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