As a little girl, I always wanted to be the princess falling in love and living “happily ever after.” When I was a teenager, I watched romance movies that showed toxic relationships presented as love. I believed that the only way to truly be happy was to be in a relationship. That’s what we’re taught …
Continue reading Valentine’s Day — What we should actually focus on during this season of love
Before I became secure in myself, I focused a lot of my mental energy on paying attention to everyone else's appearances. I would get constantly frustrated when I saw that other girls had beaten me to a trend, had more fashionable clothes, had nice tattoos and piercings, and the list goes on. It took me …
Continue reading Another woman’s beauty does not diminish your own
This past semester, I decided to enroll in JMC 406: Commentary and Blogging. Although I was not required to take the class, I was able to count it for one of my credits and I was interested in taking it. I had been wanting to start writing columns for the newspaper, and I thought that …
I’ve always been a huge fan of personality quizzes. I took them so frequently because as I was growing up, I was constantly changing, and I would always have new answers to the questions. Some may think that since they change so often, the tests may be inaccurate. There is one test, however, that is …
Continue reading How the CliftonStrengths test can help strengthen natural abilities
No amount of cliché posts or phrases will change anyone's perception on the severity of mental illness. The pandemic brought mental health to everyone’s attention, including college campuses. As college students, we already know that “it’s okay not to be okay.” With our school workload, social events and extracurricular activities, it can be hard to …
Continue reading More needs to be done to support student’s mental health
When the pandemic started, I was in a very bad mental state. The uncertainty and inconsistency in life worsened my anxiety as I struggled to make sense of the state of the world in front of me. Although it didn't help, the pandemic wasn't what put me in this position of bad mental health. Living …
Regardless of the controversy around getting the COVID-19 vaccine, we should be grateful that we have the opportunity to choose whether or not we want to receive it. It's easy to forget that there are countries all around the world that have had no access to vaccines or other proper healthcare this entire pandemic. A …
Continue reading Stories around the world tell the truth of the current pandemic
As a child of divorce since the age of 2, I have never really experienced the traditional Thanksgiving experience. As my childhood friends spent their Thanksgivings with their families in Bellevue, I spent mine in Nevada, since Thanksgiving was my dad's holiday. In elementary, middle and high school, we had a week of break to …
Khali Kremer, worker at the Denim Bar "This is my fifth year going without turkey, just to not eat turkey and be against [it]because I have so many family Christmases. So, I never eat turkey at Thanksgiving. I'll eateverything except the turkey, just to be stubborn. It's just a running joke now." "Thanksgivings for me …
As someone who has gone to several different therapists, I understand the feeling of not wanting to go to therapy. There's a lot of reasons why people refuse to go to therapy, but it's hard to watch people struggle through so many issues that could be solved by investing in therapy. Here are a few …
Mackenzie Krumland 