By Gisselle Hernandez, Features Editor I imagined the sting of it, the biting metal slicing into flesh, ruby beads dripping down the fingertips and falling onto the white-tiled bathroom floor. I pictured the face of pure ecstasy that must have been on her face as she did this, plastered there as she felt this was Read More
By Brianna Willis, Assistant Features Editor Most people who know me, or read my columns, know that I am a history major. I love history so much that my friends send me pictures of a lobby with historic memorabilia in it and I genuinely tear up. It has become worse the last few months as Read More
By Brianna Willis, Assistant Features Editor The week before classes started I had a family member pass away from an injury. I was devastated, and it was incredibly hard for me to focus on the RA training I was supposed to walk into 5 minutes after I received “the call” from my dad. “The call” Read More
By Gisselle Hernandez, Features Editor Earlier this year, I wrote a column on the pressure Racers – and any recent graduate – go through after they walk across the stage when their names are called: finding a job. The average job hunt for recent grads are from six to eight months, a pretty daunting length Read More
Column by Brianna Willis, Assistant Features Editor The number of people I hear call “pop music” trash, fluff or a waste of time is truly astonishing. Given that “pop” music is a shortening of “popular,” I will even hear some people call their favorite musician a “sell out” when they make it onto the Top 40. Some Read More
Story by Gisselle Hernandez, Features Editor As the season of internships and job hunting commences in about 18 days, many people’s anxiety levels sky rocket as the unfortunate, but sometimes inevitable, rejection letters start rolling in. The pressure to wear a crisp name tag following the graduation cap makes bad news almost unbearable to some. Failure is Read More
Column by Brianna Willis, Assistant Features Editor Next December, I will be graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in history. I would like to preface the rest of this column by saying first and foremost, thank you. Thank you to every teacher, regardless of subject matter, who ever took an interest in me and pushed me Read More
Column by Gisselle Hernandez, Assistant Features Editor As the end of the semester looms ahead like the monster some of us fear (or the saving grace some feel can’t come soon enough), the awareness of the running clock leads my heart to a place more than a 1,000 miles away in an itty bitty Third World Read More