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...
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...
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...
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...
When Republican senators voted against border bills tied to foreign aid, they gave Democrats the opportunity to portray themselves as the strong border party in November. On Wednesday, 49 Republican Senators voted against a border deal that aimed to slow down illegal immigration, which Senate Democrats tied to aid for Ukraine and Israel. Now, if...