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Dear old State, Goodbye, old State

Dear old State, Goodbye, old State — For the glory of old State, For her founders strong and great, For the future that we wait, Raise the song, raise the song. —   Welp, I guess my wait has ended, hasn’t it? How did four years go by so fast, yet feel like...

Anti-Intellectualism

When you spend every day cooped up in the house, it becomes really easy to find oneself constantly checking the news. What I am greeted with always ends up putting a damper on my mood, because a growing trend in America has been undermining our society, and that...

Collecting Some Thoughts

 This blog won’t be a cohesive story, but rather a repository for some quick thoughts I have. Wishing everyone well today, and all days. — “Hindsight is a gift, stop wasting my time.” This is a quote from Hannah Gadsby in her Netflix comedy entitled “Nanette.”...

Factorio Game Review

For those who do not know, Factorio is a third person, top-down perspective, open world, sandbox survival game. Its objective is simple, you have crash-landed on an alien planet, and you need to build a rocket to get back home. However, you have absolutely no...

How quickly things can change

I am sure everyone in PLA has been very much affected by the coronavirus pandemic, and probably are writing blogs about this as well. Unfortunately, because of how fried my brain is, I am going to write a blog on this, too. It has been a crazy couple of weeks, and...

Thesis? More like thesWas

Terrible play on words, I know. This is a post about celebrating a really important milestone for me. As of yesterday, I have finished the first draft of my thesis, which currently stands at an exhausting 100 pages. The sheer amount of content it contains honestly...

Old Tech, New Life

Since support for Windows 7 has ended this past January, I have decided to look into finally upgrading my old laptop to Windows 10. I have had this laptop since middle school, and it was produced back in 2011, making it just under a decade old machine. It is not my...

Gratitude

So, it’s February; I wonder how everyone’s New Year’s resolutions are doing? Mine is still going strong, and I am quite proud of it. For my resolution, I decided to jot down five things every day that I am grateful for. These could be things that made me laugh, people...

A Break, a Plan, and a Goal

And we’re back! For many of my peers in the senior class, this is also our last hoorah. My academic plan has been anything but traditional however, and I find it to be a miracle that I’m so close to finishing what I set out to do way back in 2016. Last semester was...

Who Makes the Space?

This past Wednesday, our HONOR 401 course had the always exciting experience of having President Barron as our guest speaker. The focus of his discussion was around the allocation of University resources for the expansion of a multicultural center, that would allow...