I’ve recently noticed that I’ve stopped living life–I’m just trying to get to the next day, just living in the thought of tomorrow.
I’m not living, but rather, I’m waiting. And I have a problem:...
Clothing optional. These words easily render any person insecure and modest. However recent growth of nude parks and communities throughout the United States opens up the need reevaluate. Even here in...
Part of the horror of mass shootings is their apparent arbitrariness. Unlike sanctioned violence—shootings by the military or police—mass shootings leave people thinking “that could have happened...
On the third floor of the JPL, you’ll find a swarm of zombies studying for midterms. They’re skipping class to cram, their eyes are bloodshot and they reek of black coffee.
That’s right, the third...
I consider myself plagued by inaction. Similar to Esther Greenwood in Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” my life branches out before me like a fig tree. The tip of each branch is every possible future...
Aug. 14, 2016, the first NFL preseason game is set to begin. The announcer says, “Will everyone rise for the National Anthem.” Every father, mother, child and player rises except for one: Colin Kaepernick....
I studied abroad last spring in Italy via the “COLFA in Urbino” program. I returned to the States two months ago and picked up my on-campus job and position at The Paisano where I left them.
I’m...
A world with a taco truck on every corner is quite possibly the most beautiful world I could ever dream of. If I were in a beauty pageant and the judges asked, “What do you want to do to make the world...
“Hola!”
“Hola! I’m sorry. No hablo español.”
“Oh, sorry…I just assumed. Aren’t you Latina?”
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This exchange happens often, yet it never gets easier.
Not speaking Spanish...
In case you were living under a rock (or outside of Texas) in 2016, you’re aware that San Antonio and Austin, TX became involved in an epic taco war. It all began in mid-February, with the publication...
Eating your veggies has never been so popular.
Over the past few years, vegan and vegetarian diets have become increasingly common, beginning the question why, exactly, has eating plant-based and cutting...
Undoubtedly ours is a materialistic culture. The things we value are things, not ideals. Even the dominant ideas of our culture are oriented towards the material; such ideologies as scientific objectivity...
