Opinion

  • New Year, Same Me

    All over the world people wait with excitement to ring in the new year. Three… Two… One… The clock strikes twelve … and absolutely nothing happens. New Year’s Eve is an extremely anticlimactic holiday. There is all this hype to go into the New Year with a bang and leave the past in previous…

  • Say “no” to Sparknotes

    As a freshman, English was my absolute favorite class. Nothing could have been better than a term filled with novels, plays and discussions for an English junky like myself.  However, throughout the year, I was reminded of a warning I had received before high school had even started, which gave me great anxiety. This…

  • 18 things I’ve learned in 18 years

    As of January 21, I have finally crossed over into the dangerous and terrifying territory of adulthood. Now that I can buy lottery tickets and get tattoos and be tried as an adult, I have bigger, better, and more permanent mistakes to make. But before I go gamble away all of my McDonald’s money…

  • New Year, New Music: January Music Suggestions

    Starting off 2016 can be hard, especially as finals are right around the corner, but hopefully this playlist can you get you through the trials of high school. “Downtown” by Petula Clark – Don’t like old-timey 60’s pop? Don’t worry, it’s not my cup of tea either. But, think again, this song brings a new…

  • Readers Take the Rights

    Laughter, tears, joy, and sorrow, are all a part of the “book loving” experience, yet not every individual takes away the same truths, since books tend to bring out something unique from each individual that reads them. Writers spend countless hours, days, months and years crafting their books with their heart and soul. Books…

  • Death tolls on the rise for television dramas

    It all starts the same way. The screen fades to black, the credits roll, and you, half catatonic on the couch, breath out the words: “what on earth just happened?” Reality sets in, and then out pour the water-works. Hate to break it to you, but your favorite TV character just died. There are…

  • Revealing the Truth Behind Private Accounts

    #ThrowbackThursday to the allusive days where the point of social media accounts was to share your videos, pictures and comments with everyone. Today, a new fad is currently sweeping Instagram lovers by storm: finstas, aka “fake Instas”. Finstas are private accounts where the owner tends to only allow 30 to 100 of their closests…

  • A Winter Wonderland of Music: December Music Suggestions

    Although the weather reports about the upcoming El Niño season is rather unreliable, your love for this playlist won’t be. “B*tch Better Have My Money” by Rihanna – Although Rihanna is already known to be a strong independent woman (who also has a killer sense of style), she brings the definition of badass to the…

  • Tall People Stand Above Adversity

    We like to think that we are head and shoulders above the rest. By “the rest,” we tall people are of course referring to the general masses, henceforth to be referred to as “shorties.” We ignore the constant inquiries about the weather up here by simply explaining that our brains are literally at a…

  • Total tubular talking: how slang has changed over time

    Each decade brings in a new wave of pop culture including new styles of music, television, movies, and… the way we talk? In the last 40 years, parties have changed from being “radical!” to “lit!” The Californian 80’s saw the rise of the valley girl and the surfer boy. Immortalized in movies, the valley…