What a Creep's Sonia Mansfield, Part 2 (S8E13)

What a Creep's Sonia Mansfield, Part 2 (S8E13)

From Storied: San Francisco by Storied: San Francisco

March 4, 2026 · 31 min · Season 8 · Episode 13

About this episode

The episode continues Sonia Mansfield's journey through college and her experiences in Chico, California.

In Part 2, we pick up where we left off in Part 1, with Sonia's life right after her stint at community college. She left the Bay Area to attend college up north at Chico State. Widely known as a party school (perhaps rightly so?), they also had a reputable journalism department and an award-winning newspaper. This attracted Sonia, of course. But some friends also attended, and that didn't hurt. Once in Chico, Sonia joined said college paper and got a job (where else?) at a movie theater. It was her first time to move out of her parents' house. She lived with a couple of roommates in Chico. That was one culture shock. Another was that, well, Chico isn't The Bay. And then there's those foothills winters. It also gets hotter in the summer there than it does in Concord. Sonia wrote for every section of the school paper, and even did some online writing, thanks to Chico State's early adoption of the internet. She even developed a little campus fan base. Sometimes walking around, she'd get shout-outs. There was even a Sonia character in one of the local comic strips. It was another phase of finding her people. She thinks that because all her roommates in Chico were men, she got really…

People in this episode

Guest: Sonia Mansfield

Topics covered

  • college life
  • journalism
  • personal growth
  • cultural differences
  • friendship

Keywords

  • Sonia Mansfield
  • Chico State
  • college newspaper
  • Bay Area
  • personal story

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Chico State, Martinez News-Gazette

Places: Bay Area, Concord, Chico

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