Opinion writing is crucial, now more than ever
By Sam Norton | September 8, 2024Our country and our world can seem terribly divided, but when you read other’s opinions you get to learn, and you can learn compassion from their words.
Our country and our world can seem terribly divided, but when you read other’s opinions you get to learn, and you can learn compassion from their words.
Although many people may struggle to connect finance — often viewed as a capitalist and materialistic field — with sustainability, the two may be more closely related than you think.
This election year is the weirdest and potentially most consequential of our lives. As much as it is an exhausting rhetoric, it is important to vote for those who will best represent you, up and down the ballot. I believe this is the slate of candidates offered by the Democratic Party.
Students take out tens of thousands of dollars in loans, all to invest in themselves, hoping for a better future. But the expectation has shifted so drastically that many young adults feel pressured to go to college, or else they aren’t living up to expectations.
The solar eclipse was a momentous event, but for some students with disabilities it posed unique, and possiby dangerous, situations.
You are not a trailblazer for taking desire paths. You are not staging a silent rebellion. Rather, these pathways, more strongly than sidewalks, represent the absence of freedom from industrial control.
Is it possible that online platforms can corrupt content creators? Staff Writer Taylor Powers examines the psychological effects of fame on content creators.
In the moment, the days feel long and the weeks are stretched, but when we reminisce, it is as if time can’t seem to slow down. Unbeknownst to my first-year self, the next four years would fly by.
While obtaining a state ID seems to be a simple process, for many citizens, age, marital status, disability or gender identity can become yet another barrier to securing the state-issued ID that Americans increasingly need to vote.
Miami University will be in the path of totality for the solar eclipse, but students still have class. Opinion editor Sam Norton explains why Miami should cancel classes April 8 for this historic event.
Social media platforms promoting unrealistic beauty standards are not unheard of. But today’s social media environment has taken it a step further with harmful terminology and beauty filters that subtly alter your appearance.
I could not wrap my head around the fact of how I said ‘bye’ and ‘see you soon’ so casually, because how could something so tragic, ugly and horrible happen? But, car accidents as a result of drunk driving occur with greater frequency than commonly perceived.
It’s my second semester at Miami University, and after writing a dozen stories for The Miami Student, I see the newsroom for the first time.
I’ve often heard people tell me to enjoy college because it contains “the best years of your life.” Now that I’m graduating in a few months, I get what they were saying. To be perfectly blunt, I feel like I’m dying.
The past four years of my life, in the whirlwind of college, in the oversight-free environment of young adulthood, have not been the “best four years of my life.”
A year and a half ago, I wrote an exhaustive breakdown of AMC Theatres’ promotional video featuring Nicole Kidman. I was a semester into my time with The Miami Student, still learning the ropes and finding my voice as a writer at the paper.
At the start of my junior year, I was casually skimming the weekly newsletter from the Department of Media, Journalism & Film in my inbox and saw that The Miami Student was seeking a new social media manager. I hadn’t heard much about The Student but quickly took to the internet to learn more about the organization.
Before my first year at Miami University, I changed my major away from journalism. Thankfully, James Tobin, a journalism professor, somehow saw that, gave me a call and talked to me about the Miami journalism program. After we hung up, I went right back into the system and changed my major back.
AI threatens your ability to get a job. Not simply because using AI to cheat may mean you lack valuable skills required for the workforce, but also because it can probably do your job better than you.