Culture

Pressing play in a world on pause

Music has enabled us to wallow in our emotions and connect with ourselves and others who were feeling the same way. For these reasons, the noticeable increase in our consumption and sharing of music comes as no surprise. Read More

Painting with words

If prose is a picture, capturing scenes with as many sentences as possible like pixels on a screen, poetry is a painting with artful brush strokes that demonstrate the skill of the artist and leave questions for the mind to fill. Read More

Liv on the Edge: Marriage, marriage plots, and marriage pacts

Ultimately, I refuse to accept that life is just graduating college, getting a job, getting married, having kids, and dying. I know there’s so much more than that. Read More

CT Cooks: Cloud Cakes

To give myself a little serotonin boost, I attempted to make some cheery little Cloud Cakes because they seemed simple. I was so wrong. Read More

SNL star Melissa Villaseñor hasn’t let fame get to her head

The event offered a welcome break from studying, constituting an escape into the world of comedy for an hour. Read More

Inside the Hopeman Carillon

At first glance the carillon looked similar to a stripped-down piano, with pegs and pedals arranged like keys, and cables that run up and down behind them. Watching it being played, however, showed just how different it is.  Read More

CT Eats: Rise and grind with five local coffee shops

Escaping the lull of campus can be a challenge and is considerably more difficult during the pandemic. A coffee shop could be the key to salvation, and Rochester has some great ones. Read More

Voting out the imposter within

Most of us are intimately familiar with imposter syndrome:  the feeling of inadequacy that leads to you to think that everyone else is smarter than you. Read More

Liv on the Edge: The curiously cyclical nature of fashion

Early 2000’s trends have made a full comeback. Read More

Visiting Niagara Falls in the winter

This past January I visited Niagara Falls State Park to check out the newly upgraded Cave of the Winds. Read More