Tag: Fall 2021
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What is this Internet Speech We Speak of?
By Elise Bryan No, it’s the period slay hunty finna on god boots the house down chile sis for me. Comment sections on various social media platforms are riddled with these words in strings that are unintelligible to the casual viewer. These words are not new by any means, but have somehow been absorbed by […]
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No More 24 Hour Exams
By Jason Lim On June 10th and 11th of this year, I spent 20 hours working on a final. I worked from 10:00am Thursday to 7:48am Friday, breaking only occasionally and briefly. When I finished, I felt exhausted, defeated, and physically sick. This test experience, a final for an upper-division math class, was not an […]
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We Can All Learn A Lesson In Political Discourse From Baseball
By Willa Reed On baseball season’s opening day in 2011, Giants fan Bryan Stow was found in a pool of his own blood outside Dodger Stadium. Stow was beaten up by two Dodgers fans; they dented his skull, deformed his spine, and left him in a nine-month coma. Vivid memories of this tragedy have stuck […]
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How Words Lose Their Meanings
By Julia Torres Working with kids at a hospital is an incredible experience–but it’s also heart-wrenching. One of our patients, who is around twelve years old, expressed his frustration in how his friends at school frequently used “cancer” as a casual term on social media and threw the word around as a joke in conversation. […]
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Make Peas, Not War: The Benefits of a Plant-Based World
By Navid Eghbali Twenty years ago, if one was to walk up to a random person at school and mention veganism, there’d be a high chance that person would have a puzzled look on their face. Nowadays, any random person on campus would know what veganism is and would probably have his or her own […]
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The Feminine Urge to Self-Deprecate
By Leah John Like every other tween growing up on the internet in 2015 many of my evenings were spent watching my fellow teenage girls on youtube: specifically, young female “lifestyle” bloggers praised as “relatable girls”. They were insanely beautiful, rich, almost exclusively white: but most importantly, they absolutely hated themselves. These prototypical influencers built […]
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The “Granola” Hierarchy of UCLA
By Sophia Yu Perhaps before social media, there was a time when the phrase, “escaping into nature,” embodied what it implies: quiet, isolation, and a genuine appreciation for the outdoors. Scrolling through posts of materialistic and exclusionary Zion trips on Instagram, I am skeptical that these same peaceful characteristics continue to define “outdoorsy” culture in […]
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Stop Watching the News
By Kaveh Nasseri Mashhadi Stop watching the news. This is not a politically motivated call to action, nor a statement made with any intention to shock. It’s a hope, a plea, and above all a critique of the news media and the incredibly destructive relationship that we (both as human beings and as consumers) have […]
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The Death of Individuality at the Hands of the Corporate Prototype
By Sydney Lester In today’s hyper-competitive corporate landscape, the most valuable professional skill is the ability to bullshit. We suit up in our intellectual cosplays each morning, robotically shake the hands of our competition, giggle at just the right time, show just the right amount of skin, and kiss the asses of our superiors, all […]
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Are We Really TikTalking About What We’re Watching?
By Vaishnavi Vasishta From over a hundred million views to nine hundred million dollars in revenue, Squid Game has reached the heights of its squid fame. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s great that the world is coming together to appreciate this show and place it at the forefront of pop culture. However, are […]
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