Isabelle Paley | The Chronicle When I was ten, I remember wanting to go to the mall with my friends and my mom said, “When you’re older.” When I was fifteen and wanted my first boyfriend. My mom said “When you’re older.” Now eventually I did get to do all of those things but at the time I was offended […]
Read moreAbigail Waechter | Managing Editor I am many things, but a quitter is not one. For as long as I can remember, people have always characterized me and swimming as one, like my whole essence was built upon what I did in the pool. In fifth grade, I loved being asked what sport I played because I would have an […]
Read moreSavannah Libby | The Chronicle The kid sitting in the corner alone at lunch that talks to nobody but themselves is a cliche for what you would picture for someone with poor mental health. Now there are shows like “Thirteen Reasons Why” on Netflix that romanticize mental health and disorders. All over social media you see people putting out only […]
Read moreShravani Page | Staff Writer We did it. We got through this year. This year has managed to throw an ample of challenges our way and we’ve powered through every one of them. So we won…right? As proud as I am of how far I’ve personally come this year, I still find myself entrapped in my lingering thoughts. Lingering thoughts […]
Read moreRiley Johansen | Editor-in-Chief “How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” The second I finished my junior year, I instantly knew what I wanted on my parking spot. A simple quote from Winnie the Pooh, a piece of my childhood that I had always kept close. It was cute, sentimental, but most importantly, it […]
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By Ann Vettikkal Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are as insane as they sound. Riding the coattails of recent cryptocurrency excursions like bitcoin, a new form of cryptoart has formed. While bitcoin is considered fungible, meaning it hold equal value with another bitcoin and can be traded in a precisely equal manner, NFTs are a form of cryptoart that are not mutually […]
Read moreAbby Waetcher | Staff Writer All I want is to leave. I crave the maturity that college offers, but I have another year stuck in the realm of high school. All I want is to get into a school eight or more hours away and leave for good. Yes, maybe, I will endure the journey home for the winter holidays, […]
Read moreRaghav Raj | Staff Writer On April 31, President Joe Biden unveiled new measures to overhaul and upgrade American infrastructure, proclaiming his plan “a once-in-a-generation investment in America.” Officially titled the American Jobs Plan, the initiative is the largest presidential effort to fight climate change ever, dwarfing former President Barack Obama’s 2009 Stimulus bill which allotted a comparatively paltry $90 […]
Read moreShravani Page | Staff Writer Mason has had its fair share of mental health-related issues. And Mason has done a lot to help students combat them. They’ve allocated more resources and even trained teachers and a small group of students in suicide prevention. They’ve developed numerous connections with Cincinnati Children’s, the Lindner Center of Hope, and organizations such as MindPeace. […]
Read moreAbby Waechter | Staff Writer I hate birth control. Ever since I’ve started it, nothing but a series of unfortunate events has occurred. My body doesn’t know how to react to it, my emotions are out of control, and my boyfriend broke up with me. The emotions that came over me after my breakup were amplified because of birth control. […]
Read moreEvan Ponstingle | Staff Writer Modernization. It’s a buzzword floated around a lot right now. Unfortunately, an increasingly common trend right now is modernization being used as an excuse to rip the heart and soul out of everything you love. The Cincinnati Museum Center is the new poster child for the wrongs of modernization. It’s been a staple of the […]
Read moreRisha Chada | Staff Writer It’s a sink or swim world. Or, at least, that’s how freshman year felt. Going from middle school, the peak time for coddling and complete unpreparedness for the real world, to high school, where you’re told colleges look at everything, is a huge transition, and one that I, as well as many others, were completely […]
Read moreRaghav Raj | Staff Writer Look, I’ll begin this column with an admission — no, wait — a conclusion that I’ve been trying to avoid, ignore, deny, or just flat out bury (for context, it is currently 5:23 AM, my eyes are red, and I have just downed my second can of lime La Croix): I have absolutely no idea […]
Read moreMeghan Dincler | Online Editor 5 Seconds of Summer. One Direction. BTS. Talented, famous boy bands, ridiculed for having a fanbase of largely teenage girls. Why is it that we, as a society, have such a disdain for content with a primarily young female audience? You hear all the time that this kind of music is mindless; “bubblegum pop,” if […]
Read moreShravani Page | Staff Writer I don’t hate Valentine’s Day. The hopeless romantic in myself loves it. A day where you have the opportunity to express love toward someone. A day full of chocolates, candlelight dinners, and heart-shaped everything. My romanticization of this day has stuck with me for a while. I was somewhat of a “social butterfly” my sophomore […]
Read moreRaghav Raj | Staff Writer On February 13, just over a month after violent right-wing insurrectionists stormed the Capitol building, the second impeachment of former President Donald J. Trump came to an unceremonious, all-too-predictable end. Though a majority of the Senate — by a 57-43 vote — voted for Trump’s conviction, there weren’t enough votes to reach the supermajority needed […]
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Shravani Page | Staff Writer It’s a new year, which means New Year’s Resolutions are always bound to be made. I have made countless resolutions over the past few years, from endeavoring to change my body to look more “healthy” to always being there for my friends. And although both those sound like pretty reasonable goals, they were goals I […]
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Della Johnson | Staff Writer One of my more remarkable moments would have to be when I had a panic attack on the floor of a Walgreens. I had come to get my flu shot, something I get every year. I’ve had moments at doctor’s offices where I’ve gotten five different shots at a time. Even still, every year I […]
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