To Dine For
This article by Laura Green, Sonoma State University, won the 2014 Student Author Contest Grand Prize award
The term "Auxiliary Services" is a daunting one if you ask me. This finely crafted umbrella term is unknown to the common college student here at Sonoma State University. However, I am not the common Sonoma State student. I hail from the suburbs of Burbank, California. Burbank is a tight knit community, but more importantly a home. A home that I did not fathom to ever leave behind, my mother included. I come from a single mother household where I was taught quite quickly how to be an adult. Three prominent years; 2007, 2009, and 2012 were years which shaped me as I dealt with my mother’s three encounters with colon cancer. Leaving Burbank and venturing 400 miles to Rohnert Park, California, seemed like a laughable vision. Read more