As I believe this is my last passion blog, I feel like I should really sum up all of my other blogs and reflect on any big ideas of dining in State College that I missed. I spoke a lot about the dining hall buffets and outside restaurants, but I feel that I was a…
Food Hacks
With the new addition of the “Flood bowl” to Chipotle’s menu, I feel like it is a good time to talk about other food hacks I have found around State College. For those of you who have not heard of the Flood bowl, it all started from a TikTok influencer by the username of Flood….
Very ROUGH Draft
Decrease Our Dependence on Cars The recent spike in gas prices has spotlighted our country’s heavy dependence on automobiles and gasoline. The failure of the American public to be able to deal with these rising gas prices has also revealed inherent failures in the way American cities and towns are structured. The United States…
People of Penn State Dining
I have written a lot about the food on campus and even downtown, so today I thought that it would be a good time to take a step back and talk about the people who are making and serving this food. There are some great people in the dining halls at Penn State and popular…
Issue Brief Intro
The recent spike in gas prices has spotlighted our country’s heavy dependence on automobiles and gasoline. The failure of the American public to be able to deal with these rising gas prices has also revealed inherent failures in the way American cities and towns are structured. The United States has lagged behind other developed countries…
Try New Things
When I think about restaurants in downtown State College, the first places that come to mind are probably the same for all of us: late night, greasy food, and a lot of it. Restaurants like Canyon Pizza, Are You Hungry, and Yallah Taco. While these restaurants all have their place and do very well for…
The Hidden Cost of Disposable Masks
When evaluating the COVID 19 pandemic, we generally first think about either the economic or the social impact that the pandemic has had. In doing so, the environmental impact is often overlooked. It is widely believed that the pandemic brought positive impacts to the environment as there were less cars on the road and many…
Dining Drawbacks
Normally I structure my rants about dining at Penn State as either specific critiques or recommendations, but today I will be focused on the recent negatives that I have experienced through Penn State dining. First and foremost being the closing of many Penn State side restaurants. By side restaurants I am referring to the sites…
Extra Credit 1
For this extra credit I attended the deliberation of the first group of section 9. Their deliberation discussed who should make the curriculum for k-12 schooling. Their three approaches were to put the people at either a community, state, or federal level in charge of the curriculum. Their first approach focused on the community level,…
Deforestation
Pennsylvania, home to great breadths of deciduous forests and tree-coated mountains, but also home to thousands of acres of homes and farmlands. A great deal of these homes and farmlands used to be covered in trees and home to a bounty of flora and fauna too. But between the sixteen and eighteen hundreds much of…