Isabella Carreno

Through trial and error, I found a few solutions that worked and many that didn’t. Here is what I learned in my four-year journey of trying to grow my hair.

This semester, I truly outdid myself. Spring 2022 was by far the busiest semester I have ever had, and I learned a lot from it.

However, the consequences of diving head first into dieting culture grow far deeper than just experimenting with diets. An unforeseen consequence of dieting obsessively or from a young age, is that dieting culture grows to haunt you.

I think everyone experiences this when traveling home for the first time in a while: the realization that the city we call home doesn’t hold its breath and wait for us to return. It keeps growing, decaying, expanding and even booming in our wake. 

I was immediately met with some anxiety knowing I would be forced to go on every single roller coaster there. So, here is my experience facing my fear.

Everyone is scared of doing what they truly want — especially the "bad" — or entering their “villain era,” as people may call it. But the truth is, as much as life requires us to be the hero, it also requires us to be the so-called “villain.” 

The campuswide reaction to this mandate lift has been divided, but beyond the controversy, the lifting of the mask mandate has another side effect: It causes many difficult conversations to be had between people with different opinions about masks.

However, to ask the question no one has ever really asked themselves, what do our different studying habits say about us? Moreover, what do they say about the type of friend we are?

When I first considered taking birth control, I was immediately overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of options available and their respective side effects.

So, before you take the step of scheduling an appointment with a doctor — which is a good start — here is a very small intro to the types of birth control.