Balancing grades, extracurricular involvement
Nowadays, there is no question of the importance of attending college. It is a time for students to figure out a wide range of priorities, from what career they want to pursue, to how many meals they will be able…
Frustrating graduation situation
No student who completed nearly four years of college could be naive enough to expect that graduation will be an inexpensive process. If attending school costs a fortune, then surely, universities will squeeze out every last penny until their students…
Washington D.C. Forecast: Stormy
There has been mystique and scandal during the Trump administration as there has most presidencies. The most recent and possibly most notable so-called âscandalâ is the alleged Stormy Daniels affair. Despite the affair having happened 12 years ago, and Daniels…
Cream, sugar and carcinogens?
On March 28, a case was brought to a Los Angeles judge over whether coffee should be required by law to have a label marking the presence of acrylamide. The case asked the defendant, the coffee companies, whether the effects…
GPA: Does this number define us as students?
Both college and high school students are obsessing over their GPA. In high school, GPAs, to an extent, make sense. If someone takes an advanced placement class, they typically get an extra few points averaged in their final grade to…
Take it to the bank: online accounts
As most are likely aware, many well-known banks such as Chase, Bank of America and Citi offer online banking along with traditional banking. That being said, what would be the point of considering any of these aforementioned online accounts? The…
Learning outside the classroom: activism
Witnessing the recent March For Our Lives gatherings across the nation in the news, I wondered why there was not one in Oswego. There was a march in downtown Syracuse, but nothing from campus. It made me think about the…
Student silence no more
In a world where it seems school shootings and other acts of violence are becoming more common, students are saying no more and taking a stand. In mid-February, there was a school shooting that killed 17 students in Parkland, Florida….
Paying top dollar for user data
Facebook is in the news so regularly the past few years that even the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal leaves users rolling their eyes. âWe agreed to give them access when we clicked âAgree to terms of service,ââ many will cry….
One issue, two perspectives:
College years are a busy and defining period of our lives. We learn more about ourselves in the four-year span than our whole lives before. The one thing that is seemingly the trickiest to figure out during this crucial period…
