What is your guilty pleasure? Christopher Busch, English: “It’s not really guilty, but I love to binge-watch a show called “Northern Exposure.” I like to just sit on the couch with my dog and push ‘play all’.” Anna Navrotskaya, French: “Being with my favorite cat because he will sit and not run away, and watching the metropolitan...
Being single on Valentine’s Day can be a blessing
I asked my first boyfriend out on Valentine’s Day, 2017. Since then, I’ve spent only one alone. It was 2021, and it was dreadful. As of May, I’ll hopefully never spend Valentine’s Day alone again, which is nice. But, it also means I’ll never learn about myself in the way you get to when you’re...
Keep kids out of Sephora
Skincare has become the new diet culture, and young teens are the greatest victims of it. If you’ve been online at all this past month, there’s a strong chance you’ve heard about “Sephora kids.” First brought up on TikTok, the phrase describes the wave of tweens running into beauty stores, like makeup retailer Sephora, to...
Being an RA: More than a discount
When I set foot into the library, SAGA, or A.J.’s these days, my ears are flooded with fellow freshmen chattering about how long their essays should be for their resident assistant application or whether or not they should apply to Kirn or Olds. It is great that so many are eager to jump at the...
Lessons from my mother on work and identity
We wrestle with the fallout of feminism. Think what you will about feminism’s tumultuous social and political history, but it’s hard to dispute the troubling findings on women’s mental health. Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers from the University of Pennsylvania found women’s self-reported happiness has declined since the 1970s both overall and in comparison to...