By Tiger ShiWeb Content Contributor Every holiday meal is obligated to include a dessert. For this season, I would like to introduce this dessert I have been trying to make for a year now: the Molten Lava Cake. This past … Continue reading Holiday Dessert: the Molten Chocolate Lava Cake
By Andrea MauWeb Content Contributor November’s Common Experience event features the distinguished guest speaker John Quiñones. Quiñones is a native Texan from San Antonio and attended Texas State briefly while acquiring his undergraduate degree in Mass Communications at St Mary’s. Since his humble beginnings as a cherry-picker, Quiñones took … Continue reading Common Experience Distinguished Speaker: John Quiñones
By Andrea MauWeb Content Contributor Hostile Terrain 94 is an interactive art exhibit currently held at the Texas State Galleries. The exhibit is a part of the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) founded by anthropologist Jason De León. This project is … Continue reading The Hostile Terrain 94 Exhibit: Tracking Migrant Deaths Across The Border
By Rachael GerronWeb Content Contributor Digital content creator and recent Texas State University graduate, Summer Rachel Warren, spoke to current Mass Communication students last week about her experience as an influencer and entrepreneur. Warren has nearly 250 thousand Tik-Tok followers … Continue reading Mass Comm Week 2020: Tik Tok Star, Summer Rachel Warren, Talks Building Social Media Brands
By Paige GreeneWeb Content Assistant Manager Have you ever felt your phone, smartwatch or tablet vibrate but there was no notification? This is an increasingly common phenomenon that experts are calling Phantom Vibration Syndrome. Robert Rosenberger, assistant professor of Philosophy … Continue reading Do You Experience Phantom Vibration Syndrome?
By Ally BolenderNews Content Manager John Hernandez graduated from Texas State University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2018. Since then, he has worked as a fellow and research assistant at Minnesota Public Radio and APM Reports and is most … Continue reading Mass Comm Week 2020: John Hernandez and his Advice to Students
By Gena SysavathWeb Content Contributor Have you ever just gone on YouTube and watched random videos until you entered a deep hole of theories and suspense? Did you end up watching YouTube for hours on end? Yes? Well, me too. … Continue reading My Favorite Crime YouTubers
By Tiger ShiWeb Content Contributor Youth Voters! It is time to make an important decision. This applies in case y’all have not voted during early voting. There are a lot of races in this election cycle. From local elections to … Continue reading The Next Four Years
By Ally BolenderWeb Content Assistant Manager and News Content Manager As children, the idea of ghosts and spooky-beings probably sat on a lot of our minds. During those nights as a kid when I was tossing-and-turning, scared to open my … Continue reading My Childhood Home was Haunted—and Here are the Stories
By Timia CobbWeb Content Assistant Manager My grandmother was always religious. Her belief in God was never translated correctly to me. I believed God to be an entity that watched you at all times and granted your wishes if he … Continue reading A Brief Take on Witchcraft and Evil
By Andrea MauWeb Content Contributor Kuro Tawil is a 2012 graduate from Texas State and is now a part of the Texas State Alumni Association. Tawil was a communications major while attending college and shortly after graduation took a backpacking … Continue reading Alumni Rising Star: Kuro Tawil
By Piper Blake and Andrea MauWeb Content Manager and Web Content Contributor Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez is not just an athlete, but an advocate for mental health and an inspiration to her culture and the world. She seeks to connect with everyone she meets and to be able to … Continue reading Laurie Hernandez: Common Experience Insight Series
By Timia CobbWeb Content Assistant Manager Johnny R. Weisman is one out of five honorees for Texas State’s Distinguished Alumni Award. Weisman graduated in 1972 when the college was known as Southwest Texas State. Since his graduation, Weisman has become … Continue reading Distinguished Alumni: Johnny R. Weisman
By Tiger ShiWeb Content Contributor “Would you please turn on the night light?” Seven-year-old me asked my mother this after she tucked me into bed and was about to leave my room. I had one reason most children have for … Continue reading I Have a Bad Feeling About This
By Andrea MauWeb Content Contributor Port Aransas is known by many of us today as the usual vacation spot to visit the ocean, soak in the sun, and enjoy various lax activities. However, what is lesser known is the area’s … Continue reading Haunted Locations: The Tarpon Inn
By Timia CobbWeb Content Assistant Manager I got the chance to have a brief conversation with my close friend Breana Miller about life and adapting to being an adult. College juniors and seniors are at a stage in life where … Continue reading Advice From Timia: Adulting is Hard
By Rachael GerronWeb Content Contributor The return of The Bachelorette is one of the only things bringing normalcy into my life right now; although, this season is sure to be anything but normal, and will probably take the cake for … Continue reading ‘The Bachelorette’ is Back: Season 16, Episode One Recap
By Rachael GerronWeb Content Contributor Astrology is a subject that has always piqued my interest and fascinated me. I even told my high school chemistry teacher that I thought astrology should be considered a science. He did not agree with … Continue reading Perfect Playlist for Your Astrological Sign
By Jernice KelleyWeb Content Contributor Why is it that America has become obsessed with tales regarding the end of the world or post-apocalyptic settings? It is in our films, television series, literature, and video games. Apocalyptic films have been around … Continue reading To Live or Die: The Survivalism Obsession
By Gena SysavathWeb Content Contributor “Trick-or-treat,” a seemingly innocent phrase that children say when they’re out trick-or-treating. Most people will hear the phrase and not think about it. To many, the phrase is about handing out candy to dressed-up kids … Continue reading The Worst of Halloween Past
