Features Columns

It hurts until it doesn’t

By Emily Williams, Assistant Features Editor  Pain is a funny thing. It comes in many forms and can be expressed in several different ways, but I think we can all agree on this particular aspect regarding pain: it seems endless. Your nights are spent tossing and turning and it seems like no matter how hard Read More

Don’t hate, appreciate

By Emily Williams, Assistant Features Editor I believe we live in a society and culture today which loves to a.) jump to conclusions and b.) maliciously judge a book by its cover. I’m sure you have experienced your fair share of both: being judged before actually being known, along with being guilty of judging another before Read More

It’s worth it

By Gisselle Hernandez, Features Editor  “Well, you’ll have to learn.” I looked at him as if he had lost his mind. “Dad, I can’t possibly learn stick-shift in less than a week,” I protested. “You can, and you have to. This was the only car I could get, plus it’d be good for you to Read More

TLC

By Emily Williams, Assistant Features Editor College is hard. Yes, you can make that argument for just about anything, depending on who you are and what you’re going through, and maybe as college students, we’ve yet to face our hardest days in the “real world.” But that absolutely does not change the fact that life Read More

Do it now

By Gisselle Hernandez, Features Editor  There’s always a satisfying feeling that trails behind after hearing someone say, “You were right.” For most people, pride settles in when these words are uttered.  There has never been a time where I dreaded those words more than in 2017 regarding politics. Yes, this will be another anti-Trump column. From Read More

You do you

By Emily Williams, Assistant Features Editor  Maybe I’m the only one, but I have a hard time when it comes to caring too much about what other people think of me. I mean, sure, to some extent it’s a good thing to care about how others perceive you and to present yourself in a respectable, Read More

Go Getter

By Emily Williams, Assistant Features Editor  As much as I hate to admit it, I wouldn’t exactly pride myself on my ability to implement change in my life. As January draws to a close, most of us (if we’re being completely honest with ourselves) have already fallen short of that list of New Year’s resolutions Read More

No more hiding

By Gisselle Hernandez, Features Editor  I’ve written a column about mental health before for Suicide Awareness Month, but despite it being 2017, certain stigmas surrounding mental health are ever-present. I’m really, really thrilled to see it is being addressed more than in past years when if you were depressed, people thought you were weird or Read More

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