Illustration by Andrea Nebhut The very first Sims game, created by Will Wright, made its debut on Feb. 4, 2000, as a sandbox PC game. Little did Wright know that a whopping 19 years later, people, like myself, would still be playing games within the ever-growing Sims franchise. Within all four main Sims PC games, the player acts as an...

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Illustration by Andrea Nebhut“I’ve been told on multiple occasions that I tend to attract controlling, unemotional types. How should I go about seeking love interests without getting myself hurt? It’s a struggle.” — Lakynn Dear Lakynn, It sounds like you have people in your life who have noticed a pattern in your love interests. It’s always good to have honest...

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Illustration by Andrea Nebhut If you got into Trinity, chances are you were at the top of your class in high school. Usually, you could do well in school just by paying attention in class, and you didn’t have to study much for tests. I was one of those students who showed up to their first day at Trinity, wide-eyed...

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Illustration by Ren RaderDuring my first semester at Trinity, my friends and I won $100 for being the worst flag football team on campus. We were a couple of weeks into the semester when my roommate Will and I saw an advertisement for intramural sports. Desperate for excuses to leave our dorm and meet new people, Will and I began...

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This issue, we published reporting on the revisions to state-wide Title IX requirements that went into effect at the start of the month. Of these updates, the most important may be the new consequences for mandatory reporters. Faculty and staff members have been considered as mandatory reporters; however, according to the updates made to this state law, these mandatory reporters...

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This is a response to Bella Spangher’s column, “Leave the debate about abortion to the experts.” in our Aug. 30 issue. Photo by Oliver Chapin-Eiserloh Are campus conversations between students on politics enriching or too distracting? Bella Spangher, guest columnist for the Trinitonian in last week’s issue, believes that they are “superfluous and stressful distractions” and that she “does not...

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Illustration by Ren Rader, guest contributor Hello from abroad, Trinity! This semester, I’ll be writing in from London, as I’ve decided to join about 40 percent of students (according to an email from Dr. Katsuo Nishikawa Chavez, director of the Center for International Engagement) who study abroad during their time at Trinity. Although I haven’t quite arrived in the UK...

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Illustration by Andrea Nebhut I first wrote about burnout in the Trinitonian’s first-year guide, the Declassified. Burnout, the result of an individual chronically pushing themselves past exhaustion, plagues university campuses and corporate offices nation-wide. While it is true that an ever-increasing workload leads to this kind of chronic exhaustion, authors writing about the issue rarely discuss how this phenomenon most...

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Illustration by Andrea NebhutIn light of the recent stampede of Democratic presidential candidates dropping out of the race, one would hope that the field has finally been whittled down to the crème de la crème. However, to think that would mean you were terribly mistaken and utterly out of the loop. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York was the latest...

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Illustration by Andrea Nebhut This past weekend, I had the absolute privilege to discover that, according to her new album, Lana Del Rey is a self-proclaimed Cinnamon Girl. I believe the difference between someone learning to cook and someone pretending to know how to cook to flex for their school newspaper is a well-stocked spice cabinet, and I’m sure, once...

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