This year’s annual student exhibition highlights the artwork of 12 exceptional Northwest Vista College students. The students were chosen for the exhibition from a pool of 40 applicants. NVC Instructor Rachael Bower looked at over 200 works of art by those students to narrow down the artists. The featured students span a variety of [...]
Two Northwest Vista College students recently took part in an Alamo Colleges “Shark Tank” competition and came out unbitten and with some investor funds to help turn their ideas into profitable businesses. NVC student Jorge Latorre; San Antonio College (SAC) student Angela Costlow, and Joel Robbins of St. Philip’s College (SPC) won second place and [...]
Just 10 days after graduating from high school, Albert “Bert” Jimenez was in a grueling U.S. Marines boot camp in San Diego. Three weeks after that, he found himself in Iraq at the age of 18. Four years later and two deployments to Iraq, Bert left the Marines with a heavy toll. PTSD and [...]
NVC student Steffyn Nowak was relentless in reaching her dream despite life dealt her one too many blows. At the age of 15, she was raped and had a baby from the assault. Right before she was set to testify against her assailant, his family kidnapped her and took her to Mexico and Guatemala [...]
As I get closer to the completion of my final semester for my associate degree, I have experienced a few downfalls that I see as failures. But I have also seen successes. I was extremely disappointed that two of my classes didn’t pan out to be what I expected. I had to make the [...]
I feel like I have been challenged this semester in balancing life and school, or really just balancing my classes in general. I didn’t have too much of an issue at the beginning of the semester until I started a very advanced flex class. It was a Interactive Web Elements course where we were [...]
The Wildcat Cross Country running team represented NVC at the Fiesta Flambeau parade, running in front of 500,000 plus parade spectators. The run was the start of the parade and ran through the streets of downtown San Antonio. NVC was represented by eight runners. Omar Martinez finished first for the wildcats, then Briana Salazar, Rebecca [...]
Being an older, non-traditional student, I needed to have flexibility with my schedule; so I decided to take most of my classes online. Online classes were much better for me because I was already disciplined to work from home with my job. It wasn’t a hard transition to take online classes and still meet [...]
The NVC running team took on the H-E-B Alamo Runfest this past weekend – racing with 3000-plus other runners! NVC had three runners run the half marathon Jason Hunt was the first finisher, finishing in just under 1 hour and 42 minutes. He was third in his age group, 58th overall male out of almost [...]
Part of the challenges of college is that you are now an adult with more responsibilities. Many college students have to hold a job while going to school in order to pay for school and other bills. I had to figure out a way to balance school with working, family, heavy involvement at church, [...]
