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Consider this a sign: Check in with yourself, check in with your friends

Letter to the Editor | Monday, April 12, 2021

I have COVID brain fog, and I’m sharing my experience to give a voice to what I know must be happening all over campus. I was extremely careful. I was intent on getting out of the pandemic without getting the virus. And then I was close contacted. On day two, I started showing symptoms. I

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You don’t have to live in an overheated room

Natalie Weber | Thursday, January 16, 2020

In early fall, the radiator in my room began hissing. I had lived in Cavanaugh for three years, and was used to all the creaks and moans of an old building, but the insistent whir of the radiator concerned me nonetheless. I texted a few friends to complain, and asked if they experienced anything similar.

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Nope, you can’t navigate life by yourself

Krista Lourdes Akiki | Friday, September 6, 2019

Try not to laugh too hard as you imagine me sitting in my tight dorm room developing a passive aggressive relationship with the extension cord I just bought simply because I couldn’t figure out how to use it. There I was tired, homesick and offended that after flying 6,118 miles from Lebanon to attend Notre