Student Thoughts

Love Island Season 8 is honestly ridiculous but entertaining

The most controversial constant of Love Island season 8, Sincere, choosing between the two fish, Melanie and Sol | Courtesy of Peacock By Standia Louis | Contributing Writer When I heard the newest season of Love Island came out, I did what every reasonable person should do: ask my cousin, who obviously has better things […]

Rate My Professors: True or false?

By Lea Abito | Staff Writer In the days before course enrollment, doom-scrolling on Rate My Professors is a universal experience.  Students compare professors’ quality ratings, difficulty scores, “would take again” percentages and anonymous reviews, which are either overwhelmingly positive or insist the professors are evil incarnate. There is no in between. But how else […]

“Supergirl” (2026) echoes the past as it falls short of forging its own path

 Movie poster for “Supergirl” | Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Dylan Masvidal | Staff Writer The last time a Supergirl movie was in theaters, ordinary people believed they could fly.  Not because of fighter jets or some breakthrough in human evolution, but through the power of special effects and tight spandex.  Comic book movies are […]

Benefit vs. Cost: Data centers near FIU

AI data centers can do more harm than good | Mariana Castillo, PantherNOW Cosette Lipscomb | Opinion Director Data centers, whether you know it or not, may be a common sight on your drive to FIU. In the Miami-Dade area alone, there are 41 data centers already built. And more are on the way. South […]

AI cameras are the personification of my fears of surveillance

We’re always being watched |Photo from Heidi Cuevas, PantherNow Leeann Sanon | Staff Writer Artificial intelligence is when computer systems have the ability to replicate human cognitive processes. AI cameras are real time recording used simultaneously with automated functions. These AI cameras can implement facial recognition software to track the whereabouts of people, cars, and […]

Why Should You Utilize the FIU Libraries?

Contributing Writer | Andres Sanchez  For Florida International University, a school with over 50,000 total students, the establishment and continuance of student resources, both personal and academic, is essential to sustaining strong graduation and retention rates.  Yet, FIU’s most essential vehicles for providing student resources, the Dorothea Green Library and special collections, continue to be […]

Discussion Posts by AI, or a Class that Could Have Been a Discussion Post?

The perks of online and in-person course modalities have been tainted, so much so that class selection can no longer rely on them. Instead, course modality should be considered only through the extent of control it allows.

The Overshadowing Effect: All Roads Lead Back to AI

Staff Writer| Alexandra Perez In today’s world, all roads lead back to AI. And while that might make sense in a rapidly evolving era, it has also made something else exponentially clear. Every conversation about college somehow ends the same way: AI. It really doesn’t even matter where the dialogue starts… learning, cheating, the future- […]

FIU Isn’t Preparing Students for an AI Workforce

Kendall Moffett | Staff Writer  Students are not being prepared enough to enter a growing AI-driven job market, leaving many of us to navigate its use and ethical implications on our own. A recent Gallup study evaluating how public universities prepare students for artificial intelligence in the workforce confirms what many of us are already […]

Traveling home just became more stressful

Sonia Stolar | Staff Writer As an international student, airport visits are second nature to me. I have mastered the art of packing for a trip that could last up to four months, memorized my way around Miami International Airport, and have accumulated passport pages filled with stamps from layovers and final destinations. While I […]

Will the Iran 2026 War cause ties to break between American universities and the Middle East?

Linette Garcia | Staff Writer As tensions rise between the United States, Israel, and Iran, it’s easy to think of the conflict as something distant—something unfolding across oceans, far removed from the daily lives of regular people like you and me. But that distance is an illusion. The consequences of the Iran 2026 war are […]

The Hidden Price of Federal Savings

Contributing Writer | Andres Sanchez  On July 4th 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which, among a wide array of other new tax and spending legislation, made broad changes to federal student loan programs. While no federal student loan programs were changed immediately after the bill […]

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