Mentally Preparing for Thanksgiving

An illustrated image of a small Thanksgiving dinner displayed on a beige tablecloth. On the table sits a turkey dressed with lemons, herbs and fruit, a basket of dinner rolls, and an apple pie. Surrounding the scene are illustrated red, orange and yellow falling leaves.

Mentally Preparing for Thanksgiving

By Celeste Parler Web Content Contributor If you are anything like me, the news that Thanksgiving is upon us is a shock. It only feels like a month ago was the start of the semester and that Halloween was only last week. Not to mention the homework, exams and projects that I have felt the need to push through to have a "break" each weekend. Needless to say, I was […]

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A Dell desktop monitor in the Alkek library displays a webpage from Texas State online undergraduate 2021-2022 catalog on Google Chrome. The title of the page is Undergraduate Minors and underneath is a table of offered minors listed alphabetically with a column of listed minimum hours to the right of each minor.

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Tips for Choosing Your Perfect College Minor

By Celeste Parler Web Content Contributor Ever wonder why everyone talks about how to find your perfect college major without talking about how to consider your minor? This is a question that has personally stumped me as someone who didn’t declare a minor as a freshman and went on to change my degree planning multiple times. It seems that every time I hear someone mention they are changing their major, […]

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An illustration featuring six outfits meant to resemble six Halloween costume ideas against a solid purple background. From left to right it features a color-block purple, navy and orange button shirt and blue jeans and a red beanie, a green minidress with thin straps with large pale fairy wings behind and above a blonde bun hairstyle, an oversized orange sweater with a red pleated skirt, a black cocktail dress with a traditional witch hat above, a light blue button down formal shirt with pale pink boardwalk shorts and a grey and red baseball hat above, and lastly a grey brown overcoat with a straw sun hat above.

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How to Find a Perfect Last-Minute Halloween Costume

By Celeste Parler Web Content Contributor The only thing scarier than Halloween frights and festivities is realizing that Halloween is days away and you haven't found a costume. In my opinion, costumes are essential for Halloween and speak to the history of the holiday. I find myself almost every year rushing to throw a few costumes together for several Halloween events. Now that I have years of experience putting together […]

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Customers stand in line and observe products sold at a line of multicolored tents lined on both sides of a street at the San Marcos Farmers Market in San Marcos, Texas. People walk between tents selling fresh produce and homemade crocheted products on a sunny Saturday morning. Customers and vendors range in age from college students to older adults.

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Six Reasons to Go to the San Marcos Farmers Market

By Celeste Parler Web Content Contributor One recommendation I would give any freshman at Texas State would be to explore all that San Marcos has to offer. Once you know where to go, you’ll realize that there’s never a dull moment. One event I would recommend for anyone to attend is the San Marcos Farmers Market. If you have never been to a farmers market before, it usually consists of booths […]

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College Radio Day in a Pandemic

By Celeste Parler Web Content Contributor What is there to be said about COVID-19 that hasn’t already been said? COVID-19 has impacted every aspect of student life at Texas State including at KTSW. We have now had to change our plans and protocol since March 2020 including commemorating World College Radio Day. Just like COVID-19, there’s a lot to be said about how important College Radio Day is to KTSW […]

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Photo of various stickers organized in a collage on a table. Stickers include from left to right The Lady With an Ermine by Da Vinci, illustrated portraits of classic artists, a purple planet resembling Saturn, a blue heart Apple emoji, a line drawing of a lotus flower, The Scream by Munch, a marble bust of Medusa, Mona Lisa by Da Vinci, an illustrated human brain with roses, a Super Bowl shark, a golden illustration of the Texas State Honors College, Arles Sunflowers by Van Gogh, blue text reading “yikes” with three exclamation points, a lightning bold with text reading “boom”, a white bulldog with a painted pink lightning bolt on its face in front of a blue lightning bolt, a circle portrait of The Birth of Venus by Botticelli with roses underneath, Self Portrait by Van Gogh, a Blue Morpho Butterfly, a greyscale circle sticker reading “George Bailey” with character from It’s a Wonderful Life, open mouth with red lips inside reading “love and joy” and Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer.

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Having Sticker-Envy? A Guide to Decorating Your Laptop

By Celeste Parler Web Content Contributor Showing up to class on the first day and feeling out of place seeing everyone with their decorated laptops is something I don’t ever want to experience again. Your laptop is undoubtedly one of the most important things to have in your backpack. That’s why it’s so important to express yourself in class with how you decorate your laptop. And the perfect way to […]

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