Jazz Johnson Senior Staff Writer As a college student, it’s hard to get the full 8 hours of sleep you should each night. Sometimes there’s a test you need to study for, an assignment you forgot to do, or your mind won’t quiet the outside noise so you can rest. Did you take on too many classes with too much work? Maybe you procrastinated while … Continue reading Why College Students Have Trouble Sleeping
Sydney Thompson Senior Staff Writer COVID-19 has changed every facet of human life since the pandemic began in December of 2019 and lockdowns began in March 2020. The college experience is no exception to this. The importance of having a good college experience along with a good education is emphasized in college recruitment materials. According to experts, it is important to find a campus that … Continue reading The College Experience After COVID-19
Hannah Larson Features Editor When someone thinks about September 11th, what comes to mind? The Twin Towers? The Pentagon? Or maybe United Flight 93? All of these events contribute to a day that will forever live in infamy. Perhaps they might inspire hope from heroic actions and brave people. Gabby Cucci, a UNCG student, was a year old when the events of 9/11 occurred: “…my … Continue reading September 11th: The Forgotten Flight
Sydney Thompson Staff Writer The Spring 2021 semester is almost over, leading to the summer break of 2021. While there has been a large push towards vaccination, there is still a lot of danger posed by the coronavirus and its variants. Students and faculty will still have to be careful and safe in how they choose to spend their summer vacation this year. The requirements … Continue reading Safe Summer Fun for Students in 2021
Gabrielle Lowery Staff Writer “No Justice, No Peace.” A slogan written on the signs and posters of the Black Lives Matter movement and engraved into the minds of United States citizens. No peace goes beyond the protesting and is symbolic of the state of mind of individuals both directly and indirectly involved in the movement. The mental illness rates in the United States continue to … Continue reading Black Mental Health Matters
Sydney Thompson Staff Writer As the semester continues to march towards its end, many students are showing signs of exhaustion even as they prepare for final exams and projects. On the app Wildfire, many students are expressing how tired they are and how much work is still left to do and some are lamenting that there was no Spring Break this semester. UNCG decided before … Continue reading Student Body Exhaustion: Solutions Beyond Mental Health Day
Gabrielle Lowery Staff Writer After taking numerous general education courses, changing majors, spending long hours with our heads in textbooks and listening to lectures, the day is finally approaching for the class of 2021 to walk across the stage. Recently, UNC Greensboro announced that they would be having in-person commencement for the class of 2020 and 2021 following similar announcements made by other UNC schools … Continue reading Celebrating a Milestone: College Graduation
Hannah Larson Staff Writer *This article contains descriptive content pertaining to mass shooting incidents that have occured in the U.S., viewer discretion is advised.* On March 16, news of yet another shooting surfaced when a gunman attacked salons in Atlanta, Georgia. Only six days later, a shooting also occurred at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado. Unfortunately, these events are no strangers to this nation and … Continue reading Mass Shootings and The United States
Sydney Thompson Staff Writer The two most popular aesthetics on the internet can be found everywhere, from TikTok and YouTube, to Pinterest and Instagram. The first is cottagecore, a style harkening back to an agricultural past that is more fantasy than history, with a focus on returning to nature reminiscent of the hippie movement in the late 1960s and the Romanticism movement of the early … Continue reading Dark Academia: Students Romanticize College Life Again
McKenzie Campbell Staff Writer If you’re a college student, you’ve probably heard of a job search app called Handshake, and you might get frequent emails from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro about attending career fairs through this app. A word of advice: if you are ignoring these emails because you’re unaware of just how life-changing Handshake can be, it’s time to stop and … Continue reading Take Advantage of UNCG’S Virtual Career Fairs
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