While routines aren't necessarily a bad thing, it's important we make an effort to switch things up now and then to keep life feeling new, exciting and fresh. Staff writer Taylor Powers has found this avenue through music.
Still, we don’t understand the importance of a tool, especially social media in today’s world, until we feel its existence is threatened. Now, the U.S. government wants to tell my friends that they are not going to have access to the platform anymore because TikTok is a national security issue.
Opinion writer Lilly McClelland explores why when a man laughed at her joke, it made her feel more special than when a woman does.
Columnist Meredith Perkins ranks the New York Times games after playing them all each day for a week.
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.
Newly elected editor-in-chief Kasey Turman reflects on what draws him to The Miami Student.
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.
If you didn't know, The Miami Student distributes its own papers. That means one or two of us spend our Fridays lugging 2,000 copies to newsstands all around campus and Oxford. When I first became an assistant editor and found this out I thought: These journalism freaks are insane. Think about the opportunity cost! How would that be utility-maximizing?
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 first wrote this column on March 29, 2023, at 12:30 a.m. in the notes app on my phone.
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.
My first thought: That number has to be wrong. My second thought: How would I know where I want to go to college yet? I was only 16 years old. And yet here I am, 22 years old, about to graduate with two degrees and 2,103,840 minutes of memories at a university two hours away from home and everything I knew.
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.”
I recognized the name from the newspapers we’d been plastering on the ceiling of our room out of sheer boredom. Being a pre-communication design student myself, and Alice a journalism student, we thought we might as well find out more. Flash forward a year and four months later, and I stepped into my position as design editor.