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Music Mondays

Heyyyy PASSers and PASSettes!

     What’s good!?! How’s Spring Break? How were your winter quarter grades? 4.0 (Who gets that nowadays!!?!??) Dean’s List!? Honor Roll? Improvement? Survived?!? Well congratulations to those who hit their goals! As for those who didn’t hit their goals cheer up cause you’re in luck, it’s the season/quarter for redemption! For others it may the season for repeat, or if you’ve consistently awesome, finish strong for a threepeat (Hollaaaaa)!?!? A repeat/threepeat to continue your academic success! Possibilities are endless, so best of luck with your Spring Quarter Goals, may you succeed and not get DEANied. **Cough**Check out PASS’s Study Hours, Every Tuesday at the SOAR Center from 6-9pm, tutoring, stud!!**Cough**

     Speaking of Spring Quarter Goals, an essential tool that will help you mark off and accomplish your goals is having a checklist and speaking of checklists, PASS’s 1st General Spring Quarter meeting is based on developing an academic checklist!!!! You definitely don’t want to miss out, it’s the beginning of many things we have in YOU for Spring Quarter (PAX, Counselor lead workshops, the com[pass]ion project, PASS/PUSO HSO One day, P-Grad). So suit up to your PASS T-shirts, re-adjust your alarm clock to 6:00PM, mark your calendars every Wednesdays, and bring a friend, because we’re back! So stay tuned for more updates! In the meantime, here’s an 8-track playlist that will hopefully lift your hearts and get you through the first day of your Spring Quarter ‘12, so (G)et (R)eady (I)t’s a (N)ew (D)ay. The theme for this playlist are current artist and beats that I feel bring an old school feel, vibe, and concept from the quality lyrics to that soulful beat. Last of the old school and first of the new school. Hope you enjoy!

The Playlist

1) Fashawn- Samsonite Man (Feat. Blu)

2) Talib Kweli- The Nature (Feat. Justin Timberlake)

3) Music Soulchild- Lovecontract

4) Shine- Ordinary Peoples

5) The Grouch-Breath

6) Nicolay (Feat. Supastition)-The Williams

7) Common- Lovin’ I Lost

8) Melanie Fiona- Give It To Me Right (Feat. Talib Kweli)


Signed, Sealed, Delivered,

Leland Simpliciano

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Music Monday

Good Morning, PASSers!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     Happy finals week! You know what that means, it’s ANOTHER DAY and another grind. Anywho, I just wanted to drop a few lines and a few words of wisdom because I just couldn’t help stop THINKING ABOUT YOU all or I guess what I’m trying to say is that I do miss you all. I hope finals are treating ya’ll well and nothing is getting too COMPLICATED. But if you do feel too distracted that your volition will UNDERTOW away from your goals, try isolating yourself, TURN YOUR LIGHTS DOWN LOW and take a breather, because you got this (that simple)! Also it doesn’t hurt to listen to some good music (Any music other than Drake, LMFAO, Katy Perry and dubstep) to help you zone in. Trust, I THOUGHT I WAS feeling pretty lackadaisical prior to finals, but music subtly got me back into that assiduous study groove. Currently I’m jiving to some blue eyed soul jams. Don’t worry, these songs aren’t emo heavy so it won’t sound like ANOTHER BREAK UP SONG. Check’em out! What do you have to lose? Well that’s pretty much all I have left to say. One more week and you won’t have to deal with finals for A LONG TIME. Good luck ya’ll!!!

The Playlist:

1) Jamie Lidell-Another Day -

2) Allen Stone- Another Break Up Song

3) Tori Kelly- Thinking About You

4) Robin Thicke-Complicated

5) Sara Bareilles-Undertow

6) Mayer Hawthorne- A Long Time

7) Colbie Caillat- Turn Your Lights Down Low (Live)

8) John West- Thought I was

Bonus Tracks:

(Lyrics too distracting for you to study?) Try Piano and rain:

http://www.pianoandrain.com/

Does the rain make you too sleepy? Try piano and waves!

http://www.pianoandwaves.com/

PS- Catch yourself wandering off in the world wide web? Try this application 

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/laankejkbhbdhmipfmgcngdelahlfoji

PPS- Be on the look out for Compassion Project!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Signed, Sealed, & Delivered,

Leland Simpliciano

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Good Morninggggggg PASSers and PASSettes,

       Hope ya’ll been well studying for midterms and what not. Any who I wanted to drop a post to share you a playlist of songs I’m jiving to during this fine midterm week. It’s an eclectic variation of soothing and snazzy, so whether you’re working out, studying for those midterms, celebrating or whatever I hope this playlist fits you well!

The Playlist:

1) Shing02- Love you Like Water

2) Maroon 5- The Way You Look Tonight

3) Stevie Wonder- All I Do

4) Cut Chemist- What’s The Altitude (Feat. Hymnal)

5) Alicia Keys- This Bed

6) INOJ- Love You Down

7) Jackson5- Blame it on the Boogie

8) Frank Sinatra- Blue Moon

PS- Come check out PASS’s this week’s meeting titled: Finding your Academic Niche. Bring your study equipment and a costume! We’ll be having a costume contest and then be studying at Paradise Perks!!! Hope to see ya’ll then!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=232888390103726&notif_t=mention

PPS- Join Alzheimer’s Walk!!! 

http://2011walktoendalz.kintera.org/faf/search/searchTeamPart.asp?ievent=460716&lis=1&kntae460716=7DE492DA239341969038928744721FEE&supId=0&team=4878017

Good luck on midterms!!!!

Signed, Sealed, & Delivered:

Leland Simpliciano

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Hey, PASSers! Guess who’s knocking at your door right now? That’s right. It’s Opportunity.

    Hey guys!

Hope you’ve had a wonderful first couple weeks of Fall Quarter! It was great seeing some familiar faces and meeting some new ones at our First General Meeting and Bonfire! Thanks again to all of you who made it out. You’re too cool for words, man.  

    So. Its a new school year. A fresh start and a whole academic year full of potential opportunities you can take advantage of. If you’ve got enough time between your academics and extracurricular activities, AND/or want to get involved either on campus or beyond, here are a couple things I suggest you check out!

1.) UCDC SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM 2012

You get to go to the nation’s capital, intern for the prez(sorta), that kinda stuff :)

 FUNFACT: PASS alumni Ron Almojuela and Arianne Magat both interned through UCDC. If you wanna ask someone with first hand experience about the internship, ask them! 

Go to www.ucdc.uci.edu for more info

**Apps are due OCT 28TH*** Apps are available online or at the front desk of the Career Center.

And info sessions are:

Thursday, September 29, 4-5pm at Student Services II 1010AB
Tuesday, October 4, 5-6pm at Student Services II 1010AB
Wednesday, October 5, 4-5pm at Student Services II 1010AB
Thursday, October 6, 5-6pm at the UCI Career Center
Monday, October 10, 3:30-4:30pm at the UCI Career Center
Monday, October 17, 4-5pm at Student Services II 1010AB
Thursday, October 20, 5-6pm at the UCI Career Center
Tuesday, October 25, 4-5pm at the UCI Career Center



2.) DEAN OF STUDENTS: LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES/WORKSHOPS

Go to: http://search.dos.uci.edu/lead ership/index.php to make a “leader” profile. You can get info on upcoming campus leadership opportunities. You get the option to favorite certain leadership opportunities on campus. ANDD you can get updates about them. YAYYY. 


3.) Apply for any of the PASSAGE Programs or PASS’s Internship Program! 

-Tutor Middle School Students

-Help mentor High School Students about the college application process

-Help underclassmen at UCI with their academics, career goals, social support, and the rest of PASS in general!

Wanna learn more about PASSAGE?! Come to our WEEK 2 General meeting, all about PASSAGE! 

Also, learn photoshop, how to werk a DSLR, do newsletter layouts, and MOREE through our internship program!

APPS are still available at this week’s meeting! Pick one up. You know you want to.

4.) Career Counseling Sessions!

    Need help with your resume/ cover letter? Wanna make that PASSAGE app perfect? Or just need help planning out your career goals? OMGOSH. Hey! You can talk to me! 

Thursday from 12:30pm-1:50pm. Lookout for a signup sheet at this week’s meeting:) 

If you’ve got the time, I encourage you to apply! Apply to anything, search for opportunities, unlock your potential. You never know what great things could result from taking a chance and putting yourself out there. It’s been my experience that some of the best things can happen. 

I’ll see you guys at this week’s meeting. Lemme know if you got any questions!

-Arielle :)

P.S. Checkout our website and listen to announcements for more info about upcoming PASS events. We won’t always be using this tumblr, but if you’re new to PASS and didn’t know we had a one, look through the archives. You’ll definitely learn something new. 


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Terrific Tune Tuesdays:

Hellooooo PASSers,

      How do you do!?! Hopefully summer has been treating you all well. I know as much as we want to our summer Go Slow and last longer, I actually can’t wait till school starts. Any who please don’t mind me as I’m just here dropping this blog for three simple reasons 1) I’ve missed you all 2) It’s Terrific Tune Tuesdays and everybody needs a little music to help their lackadaisical dog days of summer to jive by. 3) To inform you that PASS is still here and we haven’t forgotten you. We actually haven’t stopped thinking about ya’ll (in a non-creeper way). Board members have been working very assiduously all summer long to: mingle with professionals to offer you a bigger and relevant web of networks, stir up new ideas to improve our programs, planned out new events to make them more effective, and all those Good Things to help YOU! So as a former PASSage Counselor, here are a few words of wisdom: Your college career will be the most essential years to your life, as it not only exposes you to a new world Many the Miles away from your comfort zone, introducing you to new things (friends, places, a newfound self) but preps and launches you to another planet we all will eventually face known as the Real World. So seize every opportunity you can. Here’s one in front of you, don’t let this one PASS you by. #trust. Hope to see ya’ll around during Welcome Week AND our first general meeting!!!!! Till then, have an enjoyable summer!

The Playlist:

1) Seven- Go Slow (Feat. Talib Kweli) (DJ Premier Remix)

2) Aloe Blacc- Good Things

3) Sara Bareilles- Many The Miles

4) V. V. Brown- Shark in the Water

5) Corinne Bailey Rae- Is This Love

6) LFO- Summer Girls

7) Nikka Costa- Everybody Got Their Something

8) Common Market- Love One

                                                               Signed, Sealed, & Delivered:

                                                                                     Leland Simpliciano

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Summer Awesomtunities

     Hey ya’ll! Hope your summer’s been well! Speaking of summer, any of you interested in a summer internship? Well my friend is interning for this startup company called Snappette and they’re in need of awesome people (That’s YOU) to be summer interns! (That could be you!!!) So if you’re interested or want For more info feel free to contact the company at hello@snapette.com. Too intimidated to contact the company? Then you ought to meet Stephanie Sarmiento, she’ll be more than happy to help you out! Do itttt!!! See ya’ll later!

http://www.snapette.com/

                                                             Signed, Sealed Delivered:

                                                                               Leland Simpliciano

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Music Monday:

Hey PASSers!!!  I’ve missed ya’ll! Well I hope everyone’s having an awesome summer! I just wanted to spend a moment to share my summer playlist to you. Hope you enjoy!

The Playlist:

1) Martin Solveig- The Night Out

2) Thalia- I Want You (Feat. Thalia)

3) Bruno Mars- All About You

4) Sara Bareilles- Love on the Rocks

5) Matt Wertz- 5:19

6) Lloyd- Southside (Feat. Ashanti)

7) Aberfeldy- Summer’s Gone

8) Kero One- When the Sunshine Comes (Feat. Ben Westbeech)

                                                                           Signed, Sealed, Delivered:

                                                                                       Leland Simpliciano

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Music Mondays:

Hey ya’ll!!! Happy Memorial Day!!!! Finals week is just around the corner! Guess what!?! Same as summer too!!!!! Oh! And PASS’s End of the Year Banquet is this week!!!!!!!!!! So many things going on right now!! Well I hope you’re well rested from this three day weekend, because these next two weeks will be cray cray (in a good way)!!! Anyways, hope you enjoy the music!

The Playlist:

1) Mayer Hawthorne- Your Easy Lovin Ain’t Pleasin’ Nothin’

2) Alicia Keys- This Bed

3) Usher- Something Special

4) Marques Houston- That Girl

5) The-Dream- Fast Girl

6) Eric Benet- Spend My Life With You (Feat. Tamia)

7) Norah Jones- Shoot the Moon

8) War- Galaxy

                                                                               Signed, Sealed, Delivered:

                                                                                             Leland Simpliciano

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10 things to do before you graduate from UC Irvine

Hellooo PASS! So next week is Week 10, aka the last official week of Spring Quarter and the school year. KAWAWA =[ . I hope all of you are planning to wrap up the quarter strong, whether it is spending time with those who are graduating soon, studying for finals, or doing something that you might have never done before! Which brings me to my topic for today’s blog (read title). 

Yesterday, I happened to go on the UC Irvine Her-Campus website and read an article about 10 things to do before graduating from UCI. This inspired me to pass on the information to you guys, in case you didn’t check that article out. The 10 things I will mention will have some of the author’s opinion of what to do, but I will include things I think all of you, especially seniors, should do before leaving UC Irvine.

1. Write a Thank You letter to those people who have made your college experience a memorable one. Examples include your friends, professors, teacher assistants, your Resident Advisor, etc. They will all appreciate the time you took to write that letter :)

2. Take a nap at Aldrich Park. It’s such a beautiful park, especially on a blue-sky sunny day. Those afternoon breaks in-between classes are perfect times to fall asleep at Aldrich Park and to take a deep breather and de-stress whatever is on your mind (like graduation). 

3. Go on an adventure around UCI! (especially when it is not busy); whether it is checking out the mysterious tunnels or going inside buildings like Donald Bren Hall and possibly going up the roof to see amazing views! 

4. See Kobe Bryant at the ARC! I know the Lakers season is over, but there is always next year! :) Speaking of the ARC, for those of you who hardly go to the ARC, go to the ARC and make that $70 ARC fee that is part of your tuition fees worth it!

5. Go to a UCI sports game, play, and music concert! It doesn’t hurt to support our athletes, musicians, and actors/actresses. These events are mostly free, with free giveaways (athletic events), good music and good shows! The Vagina Monologues is a good example of a play to watch if you haven’t watched it already!

6. Make a college playlist. Gather all those songs that bring back memories, whether it is from freshman year of college to right now. You’ll have a playlist full of unforgettable college memories! It will bring people together, which means good times!

7. Visit your dorm. Whether it is Mesa Court or Middle Earth, stroll through the community that welcomed you and gave you your first memories at UCI. Eat at the dining commons and enjoy not having to cook anything. Who knows when you will be able to enjoy being in that community again?

8. Check out other organizations (This may be more towards those who are not graduating yet). Even though PASS is a great organization, it does not hurt to check out other organizations on campus that may be of interest to you. This means more networking and more opportunities to create friendships! It is good to be a well-rounded person, and joining an(other) organization(s) will help with that.

9. Spend time with friends who have made an impact in your life that you have not hung out with in a while. Yes, we all have those group of people we always take the time to eat or hang out with everyday, but how about those you just see once a week (i.e., at PASS) or once every quarter? Whether it is grabbing a cup of coffee or getting lunch at UTC, they will appreciate the time you took to catch up with them.

10. Say goodbye. Even though it is a simple thing to say, it gives closure to the people you have met through your college years, and gives closure to you as well. It might not even be as sad as you think, as those closest to you will stick with you! Even though you guys may go through different paths after college, saying goodbye does not necessarily mean forever. 

Congratulations Class of 2011!

Your PASSAGE Counselor, 

Poelene “Chair”

Source: http://www.hercampus.com/school/ucirvine/10-things-do-you-graduate-uci

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Terrific Tune Tuesdays:

Hey ya’ll, Happy Tuesday!!! The COM[PASS]ION Project Benefit Concert is today!!! So check it out Pacific Ballroom A&B from 6-9pm!! Also tomorrow will be PASS’s last general meeting for the academic school year. Come learn about global issues then join us at Corona Del Mar Beach for an epic end of the year bonfire!

The Playlist:

1) J. Holiday- Oh Sheila

2) Alicia Keys- This Bed

3) Talib Kweli- The Nature

4) Field Mob- So What (Feat. Ciara)

5) Black Eyed Peas- The Boogie That Be

6) Channel Two- Jazz Move

7) Colbie Caillat- Tied Down

8) Usher- Will Work for Love

                                                                                  Signed, Sealed, Delivered: 

                                                                                              Leland Simpliciano