Blog #2: Once in a lifetime theatre performance

Get out of campus and take a walk downtown, and you might think that San Jose’s entertainment value lies only in clubbing, eating or museum hopping.

It is fun to dress up and do the downtown circuit on a Friday — one that starts with Giza and ends with a 2 a.m. burrito at La Vic’s — but sometimes you need a change of pace.

The solution to that is on that little block between Philz Coffee and Starbucks — the San Jose Repertory Theatre.

It sounds like it’s only for theatre buffs or something to do for an assignment, but it’s really for anyone who likes their entertainment to be thought-provoking and interesting.

Plus, there’s the fun of knowing that what you’re seeing is a rare moment.

Access to my passion

Sitting in my first Access Magazine meeting, I felt like the odd one out — the lone English major sitting in the capstone course for magazine majors and minors.

It isn’t the first time I’ve felt like the odd one out thanks to my major — like any other, it comes with its own stereotypes.

People assume I love books, true, correct people’s grammar, sometimes, and get off on writing an academic essay, very false.

Even among a few peers in previous English classes, the general assumption was that I was going to become a teacher, and if I wasn’t, I was going to be one of those starving artist types. Not that there’s anything wrong with either occupation.