Opinion: Breaks from college should be allowed
When we take our first steps into our kindergarten classroom, an invisible clock starts ticking.
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When we take our first steps into our kindergarten classroom, an invisible clock starts ticking.
We’ve all been there: During our first semester on campus, the pressure to find a cool internship or research program overwhelms us, but we don't know where on earth to begin. Or maybe your first semester struggle was adjusting to not living with family anymore, not knowing any good restaurants or feeling lost trying to keep up with schoolwork.
At most other times in our nation’s history, during most other presidencies, a visit from the president at “Conversations with the Women of America” would bring favorable light to the commander in chief. He attended this event, so he must not be a misogynist, right?
It may seem harsh, but the days of young professionals keeping their personal lives private have disappeared faster than it takes to upload a post to Instagram. Social media networks have catalyzed a whole new level of separating out candidates when hiring interns or employees.
When the people we trust to lead our society take advantage of their power, it’s often done so discreetly that they hope no one will notice. But as time goes on, it becomes impossible to ignore the thousands of people losing health insurance. The degree-seeking students working harder than ever only to be met with mountains of debt at graduation. And, of course, the new heart-wrenching allegations of sexual misconduct unfolding every day.
For all the preparing we do before getting into and going to college, there’s one thing we are rarely warned about: the isolation that often accompanies moving away from home for the first time. Despite sharing a room with another person, a bathroom with many other people and a kitchen with your entire campus, living without any familiar faces can lead to really depressing isolation.
With endless assignments due for class, tuition bills always looming around the corner and trying to get as involved as possible on campus, the average college student has enough to worry about without spending an excessive amount on healthy food. When you’re pulling an all-nighter and Chick-fil-A is on the corner of your apartment building, it’s easiest to just stop in and pick something up.
When you hear the names Steve Jobs, Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg, you probably see green dollar signs in front of your eyes, not a failing report card. These three highly successful innovators live — or lived — luxurious lives, never wanting for anything and setting their families up for success for generations to come.
There’s a reason why celebrities no longer rely on the 1900s-era trend of blatantly obvious publicity stunts. The public sees right through them. No public figure these days would be shortsighted enough to rely on them, right?
News coverage in the days following tragic events is heartbreaking enough to send chills up anyone’s spine. Tributes and profiles of victims — their lives, dreams and loved ones — are a necessary part of properly mourning after a tragedy happens, and I believe that we as viewers should feel the heartbreak and enormity of these events.
Rodney Davis: Yes.
Once upon a time, in a land seemingly far, far away, there lived a president who actually cared about unifying his country during times of tragedy and crisis. Whether it was shedding a tear after innocent children lost their lives at school or singing “Amazing Grace” at a funeral after countless other innocents lost their lives at church, our last president always had the American people in his heart and mind.
When Aaron Jayjack started his drive to Austin, Texas, after Hurricane Harvey left the area, he never expected to pick up a passenger along the route. But when he stopped for gas and a dog started following him, he knew he had to help the little guy. Giving the dog — later found out to be named Cash — the passenger seat, Aaron posted photos of him on Facebook, begging people to share it in hopes of finding the dog’s owner.
The buzzing of your phone seems unending as texts come in from friends planning a Horseshoe picnic or pool day lounge. It’s 75 degrees and sunny, the ideal day for relaxation… but you wouldn’t know it, because all you’ve been doing the entire day is staring at a textbook wondering how in the world you are supposed to pass that chemistry exam next week.
When brothers Patrick and Derek Seale Bakwa lost both of their parents before even turning six, they were living in the Democratic Republic of Congo. With no one around to care for them, the brothers were left to take care of each other — a task no child should ever have to face. Luckily, they were given refugee status in the United States and eventually were adopted in Idaho.
When a University of Alabama junior saw photos of twenty-year-old Emi Miller and her African-American friend on Tinder, he sent multiple horrifyingly racist and anti-LGBTQ messages eerily similar to the rhetoric of the KKK.
When Oogy was 10 weeks old, he should have spent his days as any puppy should: running around, exploring this big new world with the knowledge that at the end of the day he would return to loving arms. A dogo-breed puppy, Oogy was only 10 weeks old when owners of a dog-fighting ring used him as bait for a pit bull. Without the efforts of animal emergency staff, Oogy would have died that day.
When a highly educated and successful biologist at a prestigious technological university wrote to Scientific Magazine for advice in dealing with her advisor’s southward-wandering eye, she never expected to be told to grin and bear it. Not only did the responding columnist do just this, but she also presented the argument that the biologist should be grateful that she is receiving attention from her advisor, even in such a derogatory way. As if women everywhere should just accept the fact that in order to get a male’s attention, they have to leave a few buttons open or hike up their hemline.
Imagine the difficulty and confusion of reaching legal voting age during an era of political and social chaos. With every switch of the TV channel, we see political commentators spewing their opinions in one another’s faces, and before long, it can feel like we’ve gotten whiplash. Alternative facts, absurd tweets, countless executive orders — sometimes I wonder how even the most experienced politicians can stay on top of everything going on right now.
Let’s get one thing straight: President Trump’s hostility towards the media is not normal.