Matthew: Hey, Vivian! I hope your summer is going well, as well as it can go, given that it is the season of heatstroke, mosquitoes and humidity. This may just be me, but outside of the freedom from school,...
For the past 600 days, the world has watched Israel wage a complete war of destruction on the Palestinian people. According to the United Nations, Gaza is the “hungriest place on Earth.” Israeli Prime...
At the height of my panic attacks and the depths of my self-doubt — an unanticipated effect of my first board exams and the start of clinical rotations — I was in need of a way to cope. I found solace...
In a letter penned from a federal detention facility in Louisiana, pro-Palestinian activist and political prisoner Mahmoud Khalil posed a simple and urgent question: “Who has the right to have rights?”...
Social media is a very rewarding place for those who don’t have the motivation to study. TikTok videos with inspirational quotes like “Obsession ALWAYS beats talent” and “Study until you can’t...
Can our consumption and surveillance of celebrity news and gossip ever really be justified? If not, at the very least rationalized?The first column I ever wrote for the Minnesota Daily called into...
The Opinions desk put out a poll asking people to send in friendship problems they’ve been dealing with as college students.Although we only received two responses, we included hypotheticals and...
The common refrain when discussing dating in college is that college students prefer casual sex to exclusive romantic relationships, with more than 90% of college students claiming their campus has a strong...
In my four years as an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, I spent significant time and effort seeking opportunities outside my discipline of study, and have found the most valuable experiences...
Gather around everyone, and let me tell you a story that the so-called “experts” don’t want me to tell you.This isn’t some dumb story about a made-up killer or legend about a haunted house....