Opinion

Whenever I find myself giving an inspirational speech or explanation of my educational background, which is not too often, I always seem to bring up something that my doctor once said to me after I excitedly...

As a student at Fairfield University, I am sure you have heard complaints and grievances over the lengthy Magis Core. The Magis Core curriculum exposes students to a variety of different subjects while also...

Did you miss it? I recently wrote an email to faculty and staff on campus regarding the passing of the year anniversary of the Black Stags Matter protests on campus and wanted to write something here as...

Dear Diary … Sike, that’s not the manner of journaling I adhere to.  Before the start of this academic year, the closest I’d come to journaling was the daily To-Do lists I kept in a notebook....

I’ve always been a pretty strong reader–I remember in elementary school, my teachers started giving me the harder 8th-grade level books because I was flying through stories so fast. That being said,...

Thinking back to my high school and middle school days, I recall a substantial emphasis being placed on obtaining high grades and receiving honors. Even though I may not have bestowed this standard for...

Sophomore year of high school, I was getting ready to sign up for junior-year classes. It was the year students were allowed to start taking Advanced Placement classes at my high school. I thought about the...

“Life passes you by in the blink of an eye,” is a popular saying, but so is, “A picture is worth a thousand words” … and what about “What are the special moments if there’s nobody to share them...

Fully stocked in the Leeve, the Stag, vending machines and most places on campus, countless stout, muted blue Dasani water bottles sit mostly untouched. And, there’s no question why: Dasani is arguably the...

We live in an era of tremendous and record-breaking political polarization that is present everywhere we go. It has even made us afraid of sharing our own political opinions because of the fear that we might...