Mat-Su Monitor student paperRyan carrying three tables as he helps set up for the Sweethearts' Soiree dance being held this evening.
He said earnestly, "when I win the World's Strongest Man contest, remember this as my origin story."
One of the things we like about campus is that there's always weird, whimsical shit to see, if only you pay attention. (True of life in general.)
This one was hard to miss -- a wooden Lorax nailed to a tree stump. Nobody knows where it came from. It just showed up Wednesday morning.
The Campus Life office just sent out a "Word Cloud Analysis" of the feedback forms turned in after today's New Student Orientation.
As student journalists, we would point out that the results are confusing, and also that Word Clouds are a form of visualization, not proper statistical analysis, Mollie Sawyer.
#MSCNews #WordCloud #College #University #HigherEd #Statistics #school
You know the University's anti-cyberbullying campaign has gone too far when they start referring to regular bullying as "offline cyberbullying."
Our college ran a contest for students to design a new sticker to hand out at events.
The winning design is brilliant, but this is -- as we understand it -- the runner-up. Wow.
And it actually has made it into sticker form. Maybe unofficially?
An art school we ain't.
Happy National Paper Airplane Day!
Sure, we're three days late (it was celebrated May 26), but here is a Mat-Su Monitor paper airplane -- the Zip Dart from foldandfly.com.
What the picture can't convey:
* our misplaced confidence after an easy step 1
* the profanities said at step 3
* the pleas to slow down after we switched to video instructions
* our inordinate pride at finishing a kids' project
* our shame at our shoddy work
* our respect for this #holiday
More video of Okeson Pond in Palmer, Alaska. This time it's 10 straight minutes of heavy rain.
Recorded in August 2022. Back then we had plans to create a Mat-Su Monitor spinoff for ASMR videos.
That never took off -- we only had this and a video of somebody crinkling a newspaper. Both had bad audio.
Now that we're refocusing our work on our campus's plants and nature scenes, we have a use for this video!
#MSCNews #Rain #Nature #ASMR #PalmerAK #Alaska #Regen #Natur
2022-08-17: 10 minutes Rain at Okeson Pond
We've finally uploaded the video that we took right after this picture. It shows the frogs of Okeson Pond in Palmer, Alaska making quite a racket!
2023-05-13: Frogs and pollywogs at Okeson Pond, Palmer, AK
The bird seed seed bell has finally been joined with the Talis Colberg Bird Seed Seed Bell Commemorative Plaque. #MSCNews
Because it's summer and the Monitor social media team has withdrawn from the world of students, we're left posting about plants, animals, and landscapes. Which is what mattered all along.
Here is an ermine that just fell from the false ceiling in the Campus Technical Services Office. We're happy to say that the li'l fella safely made it outside!
