Gabriella Blanco/ Staff Writer Graduating college and sliding into your dream job is the ideal for many graduates. Too bad time has made that as fictional as the American Dream. If you want to dive into their field right away, then seniors and recent graduates need to get an internship. I’m about to graduate, so I […]
Gabriella Blanco/ Staff Writer On March 4, Hollywood gathered for the 90th Academy Awards, praising films and their creators for their accomplishments last year. As some of the biggest awards of the night went to films about or by Latin Americans — Pixar’s “Coco” and “The Shape of Water.” But the highlight for me came […]
Gabriella Blanco/ Staff Writer Marvel’s roaring success “Black Panther” is worth talking about for it’s all-black cast (ignoring the only two white characters, played by “The Hobbit” alums Martin Freeman and Andy Serkis) and embracement of an Afro-futuristic setting. But what makes it shine above the other seventeen movies that make up the Marvel Cinematic […]
Gabriella Blanco/ Staff Writer Our university is an open campus, so people can come and go as they please. This also means that people who are not FIU students or faculty can walk among us. However, this leaves the door open to sexual harassment by people who are not Panthers. As a woman and as […]
Gabriella Blanco/ Contributing Writer Adulting isn’t all work, bills, existential crisis, shower, and repeat. Some parts of it are pretty mundane. Grocery shopping is such a basic chore that it’s easy for it to be seen as a no-brainer for a lot of birds who have left the nest for the first time, and it […]
Gabriella Blanco/ Staff Writer Max Carvajalino graduated from FIU in the summer of 2017 with a degree in political science and a minor in Italian. Carvajalino is a first-generation Colombian-American who pursued a degree in political science while also minoring in Italian, a feat that let him study abroad in Italy for a summer semester. He’s […]
Gabriella Blanco/ Contributing Writer On Jan. 1, 2018, VH1 premiered their fourth installment of their “Love and Hip Hop” franchise and for South Floridians, this one is the most exciting since it was filmed right in our own backyard. “Love and Hip Hop: Miami” follows the same formula of other shows in the “Love” […]
Gabriella Blanco/Contributing Writer After year-long speculation and sorting through approximately 1,000 candidates, Walt Disney Studios has finally found its star for their long-awaited live-action remake of the 1998 animated classic, “Mulan.” Thirty-year-old Chinese actress, Liu Yifei, according to The Hollywood reporter, fits the bill for everything Disney required for the role: martial arts skills, proficiency […]
Gabriella Blanco/ Contributing Writer When studying an archaic society, many assume that the best way to get an in-depth guide of what it was like would be to observe historical records and scientific data — such as fossils, statistics, and the like — and nothing more. What people tend to leave out is the most […]
