As college students, it can be extremely difficult to practice self-care and prioritize mental health, especially when you're working on top of attending school full-time. At times, it can feel as though mental health has to be put on the back-burner to succeed at the university level. This shouldn't be the case. Personally, as a full-time student working two to...

I was the kid who struggled to ask for hot sauce packets at Taco Bell. I would cry and beg my mom not to make me do it. The silly thing about anxiety is that it makes you feel like you’ve just jumped out of a plane or seen a bear in your house when all you have to do...

Season 11, episode 3 of Beach Weekly covers an on-campus power outage, last week’s tuition protest and the largest crowd to ever attend a women’s sporting event. An unplanned power outage caused disruptions last Tuesday, August 29. Evening classes were canceled and on-campus facilities like the library, rec center, student union, and more stopped operations for the remainder of the...

On the Beach side, the guys talk about women's volleyball's huge season-opening upset over the reigning national champions the University of Texas at Austin Longhorns, and talk about expectations for the season going forward. They also discuss women's soccer's Elysia Laramie's legendary four-goal performance against Boston College. With the Champions League group stage draw on Thursday, Aug. 31, the hosts...

If passed, a proposition to increase CSU tuition by 6% could financially affect students at Cal State schools for years to come. Long Beach State students took action on Aug. 30 by holding a protest and marching around campus to raise awareness. Frustrated students of all classes, majors and backgrounds gathered together to voice their opinions on the proposition. Signs,...

Listen to this week’s episode of Beach Weekly to learn more about Hurricane Hilary’s effect on Long Beach, the latest moon landing and a relatively new and untapped source of renewable energy. Long Beach State’s biannual Week of Welcome events are this Tuesday and Wednesday. Events take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Central Quad where clubs...

In the first episode of Beach Weekly’s eleventh season, Lei Madrigal welcomes new and returning students to Long Beach State with campus updates. The Back to the Beach events will be held next Tuesday and Wednesday from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. at the Student Union Southwest Terrace where students can learn more about services and programs on campus. Tuesday...

The price of parking at Long Beach State has long been a contested issue, starting in 1959 when students were furious about having to pay $13 per semester for parking, approximately $134 when adjusted for inflation. Current students were grateful to hear when the campus initiated a “fee freeze” that would keep parking prices the same for 2023-2024 as they...

Within mainstream media, asexual people are used to feeling invisible. Most films, books and television shows, regardless of their genre, tend to center romantic stories, which means people on the asexual-aromantic spectrum settle for whatever they can get. Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” for example, has been noted by some to have asexual representation. Asexuality is more than just a lack of...

In recent years, long-form video essay content has been on the rise on YouTube. Videos that are sometimes hours long deep dive into almost any topic you can think of from abstract internet mysteries to intensely analytical breakdowns of classic PlayStation video games. Music: Kendrick Lamar: Deconstructing a Culture of Trauma This video essay serves as one of the most...