Written by: Hannah Dang Walk into any MINISO, H-MART, any retail push-cart on the streets of Flushing, New York, and I guarantee you the song playing on the speakers is one by BTS. Who is BTS? BTS is a Korean boyband consisting of seven members that debuted on June 13,…
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Why I Created My Media Analysis Instagram Account
Written by: Temisan Ekperigin Like many people, I used my spare time during the pandemic to catch up on my backlog of anime. Over the course of a year, watching 26 episodes a day made most shows blend into one another. However, this was when my love of baseball blossomed,…
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My Digital Art Journey
Written by: Samantha Hass I’ve been drawing ever since I was a preschooler; if you had run into me as a kid, chances are you’d find me with a marker in hand, scrawling on a piece of printer paper. Over the years, I’d be drawing with some type of pen…
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Death of an Author
Written by: Tori Grooms The internet seems to have an answer for everything, even how to operate a 16-year-old camera. I’ve been meaning to experiment more with digital photography, so I started tweaking the settings on my 2010 Samsung camera — but my home experiments were only getting me so far. After fiddling with the settings for thirty minutes, I…
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My Laptop Stickers and I: A Commentary on Self-Expression, Creativity, and the Lack of Hobbies in Today’s Society
Written by: Sofia Tas-Castro If you’ve known me for a while, or just seen me in passing, you would see my laptop is covered in stickers. Currently, it displays stickers of my favorite characters and Mofusand Cats that I bought with friends and my Japanese teacher during my study abroad in Japan. Looking at them, I can recall where and when exactly I bought them and…
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The Best and Worst of My Summer Reading
Written by: Elijah Polance Even though summer is a ways off, lately I’ve been thinking about the summer reading I was required to do in high school for English classes. What was the bane of existence for some was enjoyable for me, and I didn’t mind adding the few extra…
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Why Margaret Atwood’s “Handmaid’s Tale” Still Stands To This Day
Written by: Edwige Edouard As we enter Women’s History Month, there is a surplus of women who we can celebrate that continue to push boundaries. We can talk about the women who have impacted the music industry by using their platform as a way to uplift listeners around the world,…
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What Working in the Dunkin’ Drive-Thru Taught Me About Writing and My Humanities Degree
Written by: Sofia Tas-Castro For those that don’t live in New England or more broadly the East Coast, Dunkin’, or formerly Dunkin’ Donuts, is a chain coffee and breakfast fast-food restaurant. To help fund my college career, I’ve been working at the establishment during school breaks. Like any other person…
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The Best Take on the Cinderella Trope Since Cinderella Herself: A Bridgerton Season 4 Review
Written by: Zoe Yoo I can’t count how many times the story of the girl in the glass slipper has been told, retold, and then retold yet again. You know the one with the Evil Stepmother, Fairy Godmother, Prince Charming, etc., etc., etc. It’s a tale as old as time,…
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The Value of the Dark Academia Genre
Written by: Kaitlin Anderson I recently took a course which focused on an increasingly popular — and controversial — literary subgenre: dark academia. Originally an aesthetic popularized on Tumblr, dark academia gained wider recognition as it swept through social media and bookstores during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lists of books said…
