Living in a dorm with no AC


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“How are you not dying of heat? I can barely breathe in here.” “I don’t know; this is the best it has felt all week. I even felt a little chilly today.” “You have grown too accustomed to this heat. I am genuinely worried about you.” This was the conversation that took place as my […]

Ask Hahney: Financial Hardships


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Q: I am going through a tough financial time where I’m struggling to pay for college while working as many shifts as I can, and my ends still aren’t meeting. I don’t want to leave school with student loans piled on my back, but at the same time I can’t afford to stay at college even […]

LA Adventures: Santa Monica


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  Even as someone who isn’t from the country, I feel like I know Santa Monica. Don’t we all? We know the pier and the carnival rides, and the women that stroll along the beach in the heat of the day selling sliced mango and cheap towels. We know about the 3rd street promenade and […]

Sips Tea: How To Spice Up Your Vocabulary and Your Life


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Now that I am comfortably back on my couch and not experiencing level five road rage during my commute from work in West Hollywood to Downtown, let’s all take a deep inhale and a sip of our tea. This week saw me in crisis mode. From preparing for three midterms I had this week to […]

Ask Hahney: Procrastination Woes


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Q: Confession: I am the biggest procrastinator ever. How can I keep on track and be productive without the crazy crunch time anxiety? Ahhh the good ol’ balance between procrastination and productivity. The journey of every college student … and the theme song of my life. If you’re trying to keep all of your tasks […]

Unconscious Bias: The 17% Statistic


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There’s a strange phenomenon I recently learned about: when women take up 17% of a room, men firmly believe that there’s an equal presence of the sexes. And when 33% of the people in a room are women, men think that the women are the overwhelming majority. What could be an explanation for these instances? […]

One Scarf, Seven Ways


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The best accessory is one you can wear in different ways – like this silk scarf I dug up in a little thrift store while visiting Fullerton. In my experience, a scarf is the perfect way to add a little bit of flair to a simple outfit. I usually wear scarves the classic way, but I […]

Sips Tea: Nah-maste On My Couch This Weekend


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The weather may not be cold enough to pull out that sweater or those new thigh-high boots you bought, but one thing that is guaranteed this fall is some good Netflix and chill material. If you’re anything like me, going out after a long week of classes and work sometimes is just not the move. […]

Skimming through college


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If the average college student doesn’t have an internship or job, isn’t involved in numerous organizations on campus, doesn’t get less than seven hours of sleep, and isn’t expected to complete 200 plus pages of reading per week, then is he really a college student? The fact that the American educational system is not what […]

Academia Nuts: Jody Armour — Exuberant Nappiness


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For the last few weeks, the dialogue surrounding race and social justice in the United States has been reduced to a single question, framed as a black-and-white (or maybe a black-vs-white) issue: do you support Colin Kaepernick and his decision to kneel during the Star Spangled Banner, or is ‘disrespecting’ the American flag a hostile […]