illustration by Noelle Barrera I've never really been interested in athletics at all — one of my many accomplishments is not being able to get a basketball through a net (ever!), which I blame on being extremely short instead of having terrible hand-eye coordination. So I was surprised a few weeks ago when I began to care about the Charleston...

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illustration by Ren Rader Before I begin, I want to make it clear that I not only understand the opposing viewpoint here, but I deeply sympathize with it. I honestly do not want to vote; no sense of civic pride is welling up inside of me, no great sense of hope or optimism. Instead, I feel a great apathy resting...

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illustration by Gabrielle Rodriguez In the last few months, masks have gone from an accessory typically found in Halloween stores or worn by medical professionals, to a necessity that we absent-mindedly grab in the morning before leaving anywhere. Wearing a mask is a daily task that might feel impersonal, because it covers the lower half of your face and can...

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photosAt some point in late April, when everyone was adjusting to being in our homes for an unforeseeable amount of time, I decided that I would make a sourdough starter from scratch. Everyone Online (TM) was either binge-watching Tiger King or making sourdough from scratch; sourdough seemed easier to adapt to my predictably short attention span and also seemed less...

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As the fall semester begins, universities across the US have taken drastically different approaches to how their communities will learn this semester -- from having all-remote semesters, to a mixture of remote and in-person learning, to opting for an entirely in-person fall. And, as time and various news updates have shown us, things are going ... in a variety of...

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Trigger warning for suicide, self-harm and eating disordersI’ve found that most people have an extremely inaccurate idea of what life inside a psychiatric hospital looks like. People think that patients are drugged and locked in padded rooms. As someone who spent eight days in a psych ward, I won’t lie and say that there wasn’t a room set aside for...

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We’ve spent nearly half a year in quarantine, and there seems to be a lot of anxiety over how productive we should be. As the academic year begins, you may notice that you tire quicker than usual. Sometimes it feels so difficult to even get out of bed and do homework or go for a walk. Oh, sure, you can...

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Long Summer Paper grass shivering to cicada songs, scorching my feet on paper roads, paper sun crying light down to burn it all, while I drool over my paper cuts. I need a place to become friends with my loneliness, or stake it down and bleed it dry. It’s more suspenseful if the monster stays unseen, but this time she...

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There's so much to be anxious about right now. As someone with chronic anxiety, yes, that's always my opinion, but for many of us there really is more to be anxious about than ever before: our classes, our jobs, our own health and safety, the heath and safety of loved ones and just generally being in a global pandemic. The...

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