What It Is Like To Take A Gap Year
Carlos Pino/Contributing Writer The emergence of adulthood is here. So many things to decide on, so many things to look forward to as ideas fill…
Articles by Gabriela Enamorado
Homecoming Week: Proceed With Caution
Gabriela Enamorado/Opinion Director Being back at FIU has been great. The campus is bustling with life again and things are starting to feel slightly better….
Poverty, The Biggest Threat to FIU Graduate Students
Tamanisha John/Guest Columnist and FIU Alum I entered graduate school coming from a low-income immigrant family background, where my relationship with money and budgeting, due…
SGA Is Wrongly Allocating Funds Into Game Room
Humberto Mendez Prince/Staff Writer Student government organizations have the difficult task of both serve students’ and universities’ needs. Funding diverse projects, investing money for renovations…
Reflections of a First-Generation Hispanic-American
Nicole Ardila/Staff Writer Hispanic Heritage month is finally here. Despite the pride we have for our culture and heritage, there are issues that need to…
Is Florida Really Doing Better Than California?
Robert Crohan/Staff Writer Anyone following elections during the Trump years and beyond knows that Republicans really, really dislike the Golden State. The Idaho GOP’s 2018…
Beware of UGS Bearing Gifts
Adam Ratzlaff/Graduate Student On the afternoon of September 8, 2021, the University Graduate School (UGS) emailed a memo to its PhD students indicating that it…
The Eternal Failure of Nation-Building Forever Wars
Fernando Fernandez/Staff Writer With the last of the American forces having withdrawn from Afghanistan a little under two weeks ago, the time for reflection has…
My First Few Weeks at FIU
Mia Petruccelli/Staff Writer It’s kind of embarrassing to admit that I woke up three hours before my alarm on my first day of class. I…
The Struggles Of A Sophomore
Nicole Ardila/Staff Writer Like many of you are right now, I am struggling with S.O.S.S., “Stressed-Out Sophomore Syndrome.” Well, it’s not a real thing, but…