By Allison Johnson Blog Content Contributor For the past month or so, there have been endless tweets of black students in their caps and gowns captioned with a sad background story. The captions all go along the guidelines of graduating on time or early with honors, with some facts about their harsh childhood. As a person who is both black and Hispanic, I know how it feels to be a […]
By Allison Johnson Blog Content Contributor Lately, I’ve been trying to understand the hype behind YouTube vloggers. It could possibly just be that I don’t have a relationship with these famous YouTube vloggers and I feel like most of their lives are portrayed as a facade. I started doing more research to understand peoples’ interest in vlogs. I came across an informative one that could be useful to certain people. […]
By Allison Johnson Blog Content Contributor The last time I saw snow was six years ago! Today, I wake up to Facebook statuses filled with "Snow :D" captions or in my case being a huge cheese ball and posting lyrics to Snow. I guess you could say we are all a little shocked, because we live in a state that has bipolar weather. At the beginning of the week it was […]
By Allison Johnson Blog Content Contributor My senior year of high school, I applied to Texas State to study mass communication. That year, I began to expand my range of where I received content from, knowing I would someday like to write entertainment columns one day. I became an avid visitor of satire sites such as Total Sorority Move and The Onion. Out of all the platforms I visited daily, […]
By Allison Johnson Blog Content Contributor I feel like almost everyone I meet at Texas State is a business major. Nothing wrong with it of course, but some of them are almost unnerving when I tell them I’m an electronic media major. “What is mass communication?”. Communication of the masses, duh. No, but really, I love my major and I get excited when talking about the influence digital media has […]
By Allison Johnson Blog Content Contributor Cyntoia Brown was a victim of human sex trafficking at the young age of 16. I don’t know about yall, but as a young woman, this is one of my biggest fears. Not only one of mine, but my parents as well. I watched Lifetime movies and even those such as Taken as when I was younger than 16. Although they may have just […]
By Allison Johnson Blog Content Contributor Kirsten Danis, the managing editor of The Marshall Project, spoke several times over the course of Mass Comm Week last month. I loved that her job and speech related to the Common Experience theme this year. The Marshall Project focuses on exposing the criminal justice system for their wrong-doings. Our prison transportation system needs some rehabilitation. Prisoners are being abused. Whether it’s dying from […]
By Allison Johnson Blog Content Contributor I remember renting movies at Blockbuster and seeing the cover for Saw, and thinking, “well that looks disgusting.” I gave in a couple of years later and watched the first two movies. Yes, the movies are extremely gory, but the plot twist at the end of Saw was amazing. Probably the best one yet honestly. Then the simplicity of how everyone could have survived […]
By Allison Johnson Blog Content Contributor This year, Pitaya made its debut in San Marcos. It is a boutique located on 230 N. LBJ Drive; next to Crafthouse. If you think online boutiques have cute clothes, but don’t think their prices are cute, this place is for you. The styles remind me of Forever 21 and popular online boutiques you might follow on Instagram. Shopping there isn’t a huge splurge. […]
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