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Age Is Not Just A Number – Stop Sexualizing Children

Innocence is lost when we normalize the idea of sexualizing children. Kids are the epitome of what we would define as “cute” or “adorable.” We get excited over babbling toddlers when they smile...

Beyond the Spray Paint: Trees in Sweaters and Flowers in Molotov Cocktails

November 11, 2017

The desire to create graffiti has nearly as many manifestations as the street art community has mediums. Whatever label is given to the medium, if it’s yarn bombing, spray painting or releasing balloons...

5 Things to Do in November

November 11, 2017

It’s November, and for those of you who don’t have a birthday this month (dear god, I’m so old), you may find yourself subject to some seasonal blahs as the rain kicks back into full gear and you...

The Dropout’s Back In: Older Students Are Jumping Hurdles To Finish School

November 11, 2017

It was pretty easy to drop out of school. I'd started working, and busied myself with other tasks until my schoolwork started to fall off. Getting back to school took a lot longer, but 20 years later,...

Au Revoir, My Love Saying BYE to Your Ex.

October 30, 2017

With the start of the new quarter, it is not too late to have a fresh start with new people and new surprises. For me, it’s “been there, done that” when forgetting someone who I’m in love with...

[Insert Clickbait-ey Title Here] : Tricky Ways the Internet Tries to Trap You

June 12, 2017

We live in a day and age where we spend a lot, if not most, of our time on the internet. And on the internet, we spend a lot of our time scrolling through our Facebook and Twitter feeds. Facebook, Twitter,...

Baking the Summer Potato: How to Not be Lazy, As Written by a Lazy Person

June 12, 2017

Summer is a time notorious for getting kids to forget everything they learned over the course of the last school year. Many people promise themselves that they will be productive and go to the gym or limit...

Point Counterpoint: To Walk or Not to Walk

June 12, 2017

The End is Not Today One could say I have a lot of transcript baggage. Applying for schools this past December proved how difficult — and expensive — it can be to round up transcripts from different...

Finals Should be Final

June 12, 2017

After two years of hard work, with all the sacrifices endured by family and friends to get a student to a point where they will be engaging in the final act of the graduation ceremony, it doesn’t seem...

This Just In: Not You - Accepting Rejection

This Just In: Not You – Accepting Rejection

June 1, 2017

I spent almost the whole month of April feeling anxious about my future. With all of the admission letters my friends were posting on their social media. I was super worried because I hadn’t received...

Man Rompers: Feminist AF

June 1, 2017

“Ugh what next manpons[?]” asks Facebook user Ricky Brown in the comments section of a post about rompers for men. Get it? Tampons are for women, so the term “manpons” is funny because it degrades...

13 Reasons Why: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Controversial Netflix Show

13 Reasons Why: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Controversial Netflix Show

May 14, 2017

I’m curious about suicide, which is morbid, but I come by it honestly. For a period of my life, it was in my thoughts regularly. At one point it got bad enough that I checked myself into a psychiatric...

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