PantherNOW Editorial Board When you log onto LinkedIn nowadays, you’re flooded by thousands of job postings. Unfortunately, even if you apply to every single one of them, the chance you’ll be offered an interview is scant at best. Following that logic, the chance of actually finding a job is even thinner. It’s become a fact […]
Kailey Krantz | Staff Writer I’m one month away from walking across the stage as an online student after three years and I don’t know what I am going to do after. I remember the first classes I took during the summer of 2022, fresh off graduating high school. My first impressions were good. My […]
Linette Garcia | Contributing Writer I’ve been romanticizing hustler culture for a few years, but it’s putting me in a severe burnout state. There’s a toxic belief that working nonstop is the only way to be successful. Society values stimulating movement and busyness— if I’m not continuously working on my tasks, I subconsciously view myself […]
Andrea Rodriguez Romero | Contributing Writer As an upcoming senior with hopes of staying at my Alma Mater for my Master’s degree, to find out that it’s more affordable to go elsewhere for grad school was shattering. Like any other student looking at grad schools, FIU seems like an easy choice. But after looking at […]
Ariana Rodriguez | Staff Writer With graduation season coming to an end, it can be easy for undergraduates to begin worrying about when they’ll graduate. Despite what we’re told, there is no time limit to graduating. There is an unspoken pressure to graduate in four years or less which can be overwhelming for many. Our […]
Ariana Rodriguez | Staff Writer After years of living on-campus, graduating students are limited to University Apartments or lease agreements with off campus housing which ends weeks after graduation. With the current housing market being a disaster, there needs to be more support for FIU graduates. The demand for housing at FIU far exceeds the […]
Carla Mendez | Staff Writer As the anticipation for the Spring 2024 Commencement Ceremony builds, students prepare to gear up for graduation. For many, this moment marks the completion of years of diligence, commitment, and fortitude. Applying for graduation and registering for your commencement ceremony are two separate steps, meaning that attending commencement is optional […]
Kaysea Suzana | Assistant Entertainment Director FIU defines a “first-gen” as a student whose parents had not earned a bachelor’s degree or higher. I fall under this category since both my mother from Nicaragua and father from the Dominican Republic did not earn a degree in either their home countries or in the States. I, […]
Jordan Coll/News Director and Jesse Fraga/Assistant News Director “We are back! We are back! We are back!,” shouted FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg, as 2020 and spring 2021 student graduates moved their tassels to the side in celebration of the first in-person graduation ever since the start of the pandemic. Over 200 graduates attended the […]
Damielys Duarte/Assistant Opinion Director On September 25, fall graduates received an email from FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg, notifying us that our long awaited graduation ceremony would be held virtually, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While the safety of FIU faculty, staff and students is important, I do believe FIU should make every attempt […]
Robert Crohan/Staff Writer It certainly is painful to acknowledge a cold, hard truth: this pandemic is far from over. It has already been almost eight months and despite this virus traveling and infecting at roadrunner speed, we have a long way to go. Less than ten percent of Americans have antibodies for COVID-19 despite the […]
Jennifer Peña/Assistant Opinion Director Imagine this: It’s 2 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon in summer of 2020. Your laptop is connected to the TV, and you take a seat on the sofa next to your sleeping dog. “What’s on TV today?” you think. “Oh, just my graduation.” You don the cap and gown that came […]
