Oct. 27, 2017, marked the one-year anniversary of Twitter’s announcement that it would be shutting down its subsidiary video-hosting network, Vine. I remember the day well. The internet hasn’t been the same since. In this Vine-less world, I frequently think about those six-second reveries and miss them dearly. Vine was a seemingly-endless source of
Author: Isabel Simon
Self-Care in Solitude: The Value of Alone Time
College is weird. It is perhaps one of the few environments wherein we (I speak for myself, but I think this applies to many college students, particularly on small campuses like those of the Claremont Colleges) are surrounded by other people, in some capacity, at almost all moments of the day,
The Benefit of the Doubt: White Supremacy and the Las Vegas Shooting
I cannot think of many things more terrifying than someone indiscriminately spraying a crowd with bullets from a 32nd floor hotel room, killing at least 58 and injuring over 500. I cannot begin to fathom the fear and confusion of those that survived this most recent massacre. Before I continue,
Heavyweights Only: Body Exclusion in the Weight Room
I am not a professional fitness expert, but I am plenty competent in a gym. But when I go to the weight room at the Rains Center, more often than not, I get nervous. I feel like a different specimen, disrupting the prototypically masculine, testosterone-infused space. I feel uncomfortable in my own