Picture this: it is 2 p.m. on a Monday afternoon. After spending hours in classes all morning, you finally get back home, exhausted. You realize that all you have consumed today is a 32-ounce iced coffee and your daily multivitamin, but you can’t seem to bring yourself to want to eat anything substantial. As the…
Seasonal depression, also known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), is a type of depression that is connected to the change in climate or season. Symptoms can be especially found among freshmen and students living in the dorms, given the small living area and lack of personal space. SAD causes mood changes and a decrease in…
The state of Wyoming needs to implement a formal sex education curriculum for adolescents attending public high schools. As of right now, Wyoming public schools are not required to teach sex education, and curriculum is not required to be comprehensive for students. A comprehensive curriculum is a written plan that guides the design of children’s…
Senioritis, a supposed affliction of students in their final year of high school or college, is characterized by a decline in motivation or performance. It is often hard to find motivation when it comes to classes as they are so close to graduation. “Senioritis has definitely started to hit me, but I don’t think I’ve…
This story is a true account of my battle with COVID-19 and will hopefully serve as a cautionary tale for viewers to understand this virus as the threat that it is. COVID-19 can happen to anyone, and even those who think they are immune simply are not. I thought that if I followed all the…
As the weeks spent in quarantine and self-isolation pile up, the desire for friends and the comfort of normalcy may become more desperate.The situation surrounding the pandemic is riddled with uncertainty, making a lot of people understandably uneasy. However, due to the yeast and flour shortages occurring nationwide, it seems that baking bread is an…
Amidst the COVID-19 self-quarantining of the country, many people have resorted to following internet trends to escape from isolation boredom.As a somewhat avid social media user myself, I have scrolled past many of such trends as I try to pass the time away. Memes, of course, are a common ground in the social media realm….
We’re animals. Seriously though, we are. Every single last one of us is a ball of various and miraculous organs all working in concert to give us advantages in the adventure of surviving, thriving, as a creature, a human on Earth. The integumentary system is the organ system of hair, skin, nails, and exocrine glands; hair…
In the cultural crossover event of the year, Mark Zuckerberg has spent the last couple days getting stretched out on a rack by each and every member of Congress looking to get a good sound bite out of the ridiculous ordeal that is his testimony about Facebook privacy invasions. The whole thing just seems like…
Global concerns about safety, security, personal privacy and meaningful use all enter into consideration as drones are becoming far more sophisticated and widespread in their use. As drone use becomes more widespread and more readily available to the public consumer so do concerns about their safe and proper use. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is…
A year ago, if you would have asked me about the student government here, the Associated Students of the University of Wyoming, ASUW, I would have responded with, “Who?” Yet over the past year, as I came to be the ASUW beat writer and I have followed what they do, I look back on myself…
If you’re someone who has the Parkland massacre in mind as the most recent school shooting, you’re mistaken but can’t really be called ignorant—an incident in which only two students were wounded before the shooting was put to an end by a not-so-mythical “good guy with a gun” isn’t sensational and doesn’t seem to push…
