Eliandro Ramirez Chang/ Contributing Writer I forget sometimes that people live here at FIU, they do grocery shopping, put up holiday decorations, and the whole nine yards. Though as a Miami local that has lived here for about 17 years (not native) , I don’t think I would consider living on either campus’ dorms. Or […]
Jordan Coll/ Staff Writer Living on campus is an opportunity for students to enhance their years in college to the fullest. Waking up knowing your classes are right next door is an experience worth living, if given the chance to. Dorming opens up a whole new venue of options and location wise it’s convenient to […]
LaJayah Blain/ Staff Writer Students all over the world dream of the one day they’ll pack their bags, leave their parents’ house, and take their first step into adulthood by moving away to college. But now that we are all actually college students we realize the story never actually pans out the way we […]
Brea Jones/ Staff Writer Living at Bayview has brought me a lot of good friends and memories that will stay with me for forever. But for me, there is a slight personal drawbacks of living on a small campus. Imagine taking classes, living, and working all in one place. Seeing the same halls, the same […]
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 […]
Gabriella Pinos/ Staff Writer From scandals to algorithms to devious government schemes, 2018 been nothing but eventful for the world of technology. Tech giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon have shown their true colors this year; with the start of every month, it seemed like another scandal about social media destroying its users’ trust came […]
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 […]
Brea Jones/ Staff Writer With mental health awareness on the rise it is important for everyone to know the basics of mental health and how to help those who are dealing with it. It is unrealistic and naive to think that everyone has to know how to handle every situation involving mental illnesses because of […]
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 […]
Brea Jones/ Staff Writer Social media has a way of distorting everything. The latest victim of this trend is self-love. Self-love is more than taking bubble baths or buying yourself that gift you wanted. This practice requires hard work and long looks in the mirror for self-reflection. Until people begin to face the truth; the […]
Brea Jones/ Staff Writer Societies’ lack of care and empathy for victims of sexual assault not only shocks me, but also disgusts me. Case after case it is proven that the judges and the lawmakers have chosen a side, and they would rather not be on the side of the victim. Jacob Walter Anderson was […]
Julia Gomez/ Contributing Writer There exists a whole campaign based purely on the harassment of women. The “Thot Audit” campaign is organizing groups of people in order to report sex workers to the IRS. They claim cam girls or other women who sell virtual sexual services are committing tax fraud. They further claim that women […]
