Category: Forum
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Duolingo is a step in the right direction for education
I love Duolingo. I find it fun, and sometimes the questions are absolutely hilarious, but ultimately, my love of the language-learning app boils down to two simple reasons: a love of languages and of the free exchange of information. As a disclaimer, I’m not a language expert, but I have learned a second language to […]
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Canva has taken over social media branding
I know the secret to your student club branding. You found Canva, but so did every other student group on campus. Canva, that lovable content design website, is overused by student groups for their marketing, and the designs aren’t even that strong. Canva’s intuitive design system has turned student instagram feeds into a homogenous wet […]
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ANGLES: What is the best literary trope?
Any person who gets far enough into being a passionate consumer of fiction is familiar with certain tropes that are common in their genre of choice. Whether they make the reader laugh or groan, literary tropes are a staple of the craft. Online communities provide spaces to discuss said tropes. “Booktube” and “Booktok” are full […]
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Leave behind LinkedIn
I’m so happy and humbled to share, once and for all, that I hate LinkedIn. It’s not just because it pretends that it’s a social media site — as if we need more of those. It’s because it’s possible to spend hours scrolling through post after post of people patting themselves on the back and […]
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Aquaponics could lead to sustainable farming
An image of an American farm usually portrays a red barn with rows of identical-looking crops stretching for miles across a flat landscape. While farms in America are more diverse than this description, monocropping is almost homogeneous farming. Monocropping decreases soil productivity because of a lack of produce diversity and nutrients. Luckily, there has been […]
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Baby names keep getting weirder
Parents’ announcements of their babies’ arrival into the world have flooded my social media feed as of late. Unfortunately, the accompanying pictures of the squishy newborns are not what make me do a double take — it’s the infants’ perplexing names. While many modern parents are giving their children questionable names, kids should receive a […]
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Stickers add personality and life to ordinary objects
I love stickers. As a preface, I am an international student. Back home in Ethiopia, the only type of stickers I would see daily were completely nonsensical phrases taxi drivers used to put everywhere on their vehicles, and I mean everywhere. Windows? Full of stickers. The hood? Overtaken by the one and only. The phrases […]
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Patagonia paves way for corporate response to climate change
On Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022, Patagonia’s founder Yvon Chouinard gave away the company’s net worth of $3 billion to fight climate change, stating, “Earth is now our only shareholder” home. Patagonia created this new ownership strategy to prioritize its core values and tackle the environmental crisis as a private company. With this new ownership strategy, […]
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Angles: Is humor appropriate in response to the death of a public figure?
Since the passing of Queen Elizabeth II on Sept. 8, 2022, it’s been difficult to go onto the internet without coming across some kind of joke related to the event, whether it be conspiracies about her reincarnation or Irish twitter poking fun at the Brits. But how appropriate is it to joke about the death […]
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Letter from the (copy) editor: bidding the Mirror adieu
Freshman year, I was walking to my first Mirror meeting in the cozy Humanities office when a friend and dance teammate asked where I was off to. The senior told me that working with the student newspaper takes up a lot of time, and on top of dance and choir, I should reconsider adding yet […]