The stress was intolerable. As the thought of college, relationships and jobs surfaced all at once in his mind, Andrew Jones was overwhelmed behind the driver’s wheel one night. He turned off the radio in his car, and began to speak to the one person he could rely on most in his life: God. As […]
Author Archives: Fiona Hastings
Posted inGrad 2026 Print
🎙️THE ROUNDUP: The Exit Interview
For the final episode of The Roundup podcast, Archana Pisupati and Fiona Hastings, this year’s Mustang News Editor-in-Chief and KCPR News Director, sat down with all of the student managers from the 2025-26 school year for the Exit Interview. Find some of the words this year’s manager’s used to describe their year working in MMG! […]
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Fiona Hastings | My best friend, MMG
I can confidently say that during the first half of my sophomore year at Cal Poly, I was stuck in the ultimate “sophomore year slump.” I felt extremely isolated and had a hard time transitioning to living off-campus. However, I found someone who would pull me out for good, who would eventually become my closest […]
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Una mochila, 24 aventones y una apuesta a traves del paĂs sobre la amabilidad humana
Find the English version here. Traducido por Isabella Beltran. En una noche de septiembre en el centro de Dakota del Sur, un estudiante de Ăşltimo año de ingenierĂa mecánica, Cadan Crowley, se encontraba en la parte trasera de una camioneta. El viento era lo Ăşnico que podĂa escuchar —y sentir, heladamente— mientras viajaba a 85 […]
Posted inThe Peak: Exit Interview
Jacob Hinshaw is bringing North America’s biggest unicycling competition to San Luis Obispo
Most teenagers wish for a car to appear in their driveway on their 16th birthdays. For marine science senior Jacob Hinshaw, his preferred method of travel became a unicycle after he received one for his milestone birthday. It was an unexpected but life-changing gift that gave him a whole new meaning of transportation. Now, across […]
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One backpack, 24 rides and a cross-country bet on human kindness
Cadan Crowley hitchhiked across the United States to prove the goodness of strangers, relying on the kindness of 24 drivers to complete his journey from Portland, Oregon to New York City.