Dean Albarkat
- Oct 26, 2020
- 2 min
Why Voting Matters
Ah yes, fall has finally come - pumpkin spice is in the air, apple orchard photos are flooding your feeds, and Halloween is on the horizon (trick or treat, yum). But the end of October this year signifies something else that is equally as important as our favorite ideas of fall: the presidential election! Here are three reasons why you should vote this year. 1. Your vote matters While it has been on the rise since 2012, still less than half of the eligible voters aged 18-29 e
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Sequoia West
- Oct 19, 2020
- 3 min
How One Company Has Used TikTok to Their Advantage
If you are anything like me, you may have spent a lot of time on your devices over quarantine. When Apple would send me my weekly screen time report on Sunday morning, I was always afraid to look – ashamed by the amount of time that I had spent scrolling. The app I consistently spent the most time on? TikTok. TikTok is easily one of the fastest-growing social platforms of the past couple of years. Since it’s launch in 2016, TikTok has amassed more than 800 million active user
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Kaley Plaxton
- Oct 12, 2020
- 2 min
Is College Worth It?
Although there is much to be admired about the evolution of America’s education systems throughout the decades, our society has reached a point in which higher education is no longer guaranteed to benefit every individual. College education has always been valued as an American tradition, but nowadays college investments do not always ensure the success and happiness that they advertise. Attending college after high school can be extremely risky depending on an individual’s s
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Tori Dennison
- Oct 5, 2020
- 2 min
Group Projects: How to Deal with Unhelpful Members
Whether you love them or hate them, group projects are a part of everyone’s educational career. Group projects are bearable when the group divides the work, group brainstorming produces creative ideas, and the results are better than what one person could do on their own. However, group projects immediately are dreaded when it is evident there is going to be an unhelpful member. Our brains quickly rack up the memories of the group projects we have been a part of where one of
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