Op-Eds
joy
What happened to the joy in life?
You’re suddenly faced with a harsh reality — work is sucking up all your free time. What happened to the joy in life?
Mental Health
Navigating the world of online mental health awareness
On social media, a creator describes a list of symptoms that leads them to conclude they have depression. The weird thing is, those symptoms sound a lot like things you experience every day.
abortion
The war on abortion
Answer honestly — would you dare look into their eyes and tell them they are killing a baby, that they are wrong for putting themselves first?
optimism
Optimism in the face of, well, everything
Hope is gritty, tough, and sharp. It is found deep beneath the surface, and sometimes it’s found at your local summer camp.
breakup
TikTok psychics and the commodification of denial
The circumstances of our breakup were messy and toxic. But denial was comfortable. So I kept on liking, sharing, and following.
advice
It’s okay to be just okay
It’s great to be good at something you enjoy, but it should also be totally okay to maybe not be so great at it.
ableism
Why you shouldn’t roast STEM majors (although you know you want to)
I was raised around ableist jokes. I went to high school with them (I bet you did, too). But mediocre jokes point to ignorance, and often, complicity.
advice
Befriending your very own fitness monster: the GAC
Fear not, incoming students and GAC newcomers, I will divulge all my secrets on how I befriended the fitness monster.
Humanities
STEM vs. humanities: The ongoing, counterproductive debate
Maybe we’ve all been wasting our time debating the relative worth of the two fields, and instead accidentally devaluing both by overlooking their individual and combined merits.
body image
TikTok’s glorification of eating disorders
Self-love isn’t always realistic; self-acceptance is much better.