new year

EDITOR’S NOTE: New Year, New Classes, New Us

Happy New Year Panthers! 2019 has finally arrived and with it comes new classes, new experiences and new challenges. If you’re new to the University, thank you for making PantherNOW part of your FIU journey.

Bird Box themed game reflects cyberstupidity

The New Year is often a source of new trends. Breaking news during the winter break included events like a government shutdown and a presidential visit to our troops in Syria. In terms of millennials’ strange habits; a new Netflix film, “Bird Box” has provoked a new and dangerous game which involves blindfolding oneself and engaging […]

New Years Resolutions are Counterproductive

Eduardo Alvarez/ Opinion Director We all know how it works. we tell ourselves we’ll fix our bad habits and replace them with good ones. Eat better, work out and everything in between. And then we do none of these things. Having resolutions is fundamental to correcting errors, but relegating them to a few days at […]

A New Year is a chance to beat depression

Ossman Darwiche/ Staff Writer We the people of Earth, were meant to be so much more, if we but free ourselves from our mental prison! And you who read my words, and I who write them, have practically limitless potential to create the worlds we would like to see! That’s right my friends, if we […]

We should actually follow our New Year’s resolutions

Eliandro Ramirez Chang/ Contributing Writer Around the end of the year our social media feeds light up with the familiar phrase “New year, New me.” The frequency of the phrase begs the question of “why”, why is it a phrase that is so used throughout all different personality types of people. Is it a simple […]

New Year’s resolutions should be committed and supported

Brea Jones/ Staff Writer We all know that saying too well — “New year, New me” — but how many people really make a change? It’s good that people set goals for themselves each year and are finding ways to enhance their current self, but that’s only half the job. Each year it seems like […]

T.R.A.C.: opportunity to ‘exercise teamwork and communication skills’ for SGA-BBC

SGA-BBC has some thrilling new events in store for the students the semester and look forward to your participations and cooperation

FIU community shares resolutions for 2017

"[My resolution is] to be more self-caring.”

Chinese Club hosts second annual Chinese New Year Gala

“I think the gala is just a very small part of what we do here. We want to bring awareness through cultural events like this but we also have wonderful movie festivals” Ma said.

Resolutions Are Not Achieved Without Hard Work

Resolutions work fine for the first week of the New Year, maybe even the first month. There is all this energy in the air fueling us to establish a fresh start.

Editorial: Back to school means back to business

In between joining clubs and studying, pick up a copy of The Beacon every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday to stay updated on what’s going on around campus. If you’re on the go, FIU Student Media will make sure to keep you informed on Twitter and Facebook, as well as on our website, FIUSM.com.

We have high expectations and so should you

An editorial on our expectations for the new term.
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