By A. Hannah Alvarado Web Content Contributor I’ve been reflecting a lot, as some of us do, when we are approaching a birthday. I’ve spent almost an entire three hundred and sixty five days, 8,760 hours, and 525,600 seconds figuring … Continue reading 23 Things I Learned From Being 23
By Hannah Alvarado Web Content Contributor One interesting thing about the human experience has been on my mind lately. No, not our neurological ability to produce “a series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep,” but rather, our inkling … Continue reading Why Do We Dream?
By Hannah Alvarado Web Content Contributor There were thousands of people, all jam-packed together in a group on that humid, gray and overcast afternoon in Austin, Texas. We all shuffled along slowly forward, but with growing anticipation, into the various … Continue reading A Living Legend: Sir Paul McCartney
By Hannah Alvarado Blog Content Contributor Texas, in my humble opinion, is a majestic land that is just chock-full of fantastic must-sees that far exceed most people’s perception of our Lone Star State. Believe it or not, there is a … Continue reading Go There: The Austin Film Festival
By Hannah Alvarado Web Content Contributor From the worthiness of Breast Cancer supporting, to the spooky nature of all things Halloween, October is a month that stands as a month that advocates many things. Even though a good portion of … Continue reading PSA: October is Cyber Security Awareness Month
By Hannah Alvarado Web Content Contributor Have you ever heard that annoying saying that ‘Summer bodies are made in the winter’? It’s a popular mantra among health and fitness enthusiasts. While they do have a point, not all of us … Continue reading Healthy for the Holidays: Intermittent Fasting
By Hannah Alvarado Web Content Contributor Each year, a different theme is selected for Texas State University’s series of academic lectures, film screenings, panel discussions, philosophical dialogues, art exhibits and more, also known as Common Experience. There is also a … Continue reading Common Expierence: Future Humans
By Hannah Alvarado Web Content Contributor Have you ever looked around at your peers, maybe the people in your classes, people at work, or people with majors similar or the same, and felt like the only odd one out? You’ve … Continue reading Imposterism: What it is, and Why You May be Feeling it
By Hannah Alvarado Web Content Contributor Autumn is my absolute favorite time of the year, which I’m sure a lot of you will agree with me on. It’s the start of the holiday season and the entire world seems to … Continue reading Mariposa Madness
By Hannah Alvarado Web Content Contributor Sometimes, passing on things, is an easy task. Like, when your roommate asks you if you could do their dishes or when that kid in class asks you to lend them your notes (when … Continue reading Learning How to Say ‘No’
By Hannah Alvarado Blog Content Contributor You’ve seen those movies, right? Where someone has the vision of the impending disaster that leads to the character’s untimely and often way too dramatic end? Well, there is something like it lurking in … Continue reading The Final(s) Caffeination
By Hannah Alvarado Blog Content Contributor The several clichés that surround university are pretty vast and vary from road-tripping to living on your own for the first time to plain ol’ growing up. As we’ve previously discussed, college is often … Continue reading College Clichés: The Internship Edition
By Hannah Alvarado Blog Content Contributor Travel is one of my favorite things about adult life– getting to pack up and go away on an adventure, experience new things and places. One thing that I find absolutely horrible about it, … Continue reading Flying Tips for When You Hate to Fly
By Hannah Alvarado Blog Content Contributor If you’ve been in this higher education game for even one semester, chances are you’ve dealt with some sort of academic rejection. Applying to a particular program, a scholarship, an internship or even your … Continue reading Dealing with Academic Rejection
By Hannah Alvarado Blog Content Contributor So you’re ready to move out on your own. That’s great! But before you pack up and sign a lease for just anywhere, remember to stop and consider everything that goes along with that … Continue reading Five Things to Know Before Renting
By Hannah Alvarado Blog Content Contributor College. Just the mention of the institution can conjure up quite a diverse set of images in your mind. And apparently, there are a few milestones that we are seemingly “meant” to have, when … Continue reading College Clichés: Road Trip Edition
By Hannah Alvarado Blog Content Contributor Weather-worn brick can be viewed as far as the eyes can see. Music, laughter and eateries are in abundance among the many buildings intermingled within a small area known locally, as simply “The Pearl.” … Continue reading Jazz Texas: A Review
By Hannah Alvarado Blog Content Contributor If you’ve ever been to Texas, chances are you’ve visited 1012 Baylor St. in Austin, Texas. A once-large landmass that stood as cement ruins, abandoned, overgrown and quite the eyesore–until the 2011 South By … Continue reading Living Art: Why the Demolition of Graffiti Park is Problematic
By Hannah Alvarado Blog Content Contributor Okay, okay, I know it’s not a death defying act, there’s no dragon breathing fire or kingdom to defend, but hear me out. Once upon a time, I was a young, driven biology major. … Continue reading Why Changing Your Major is an Act of Bravery
