Looking back on my four years at Iona, I am content. I never thought I would love Iona as much as I have, and I am so lucky for my experience. Not every day was perfect: it was hard transitioning the first...

  It’s hard to believe I’m sitting down writing my last opinion piece for The Ionian as the last few weeks of my college experience comes to a close. These past four years have been some of...

Iona College was the first college that I was accepted to. I hadn’t known what to expect when I applied to a little private school down in New Rochelle, New York, of all places. I’m from a mid-sized...

Growing up, I had severe separation anxiety. Whenever I was away from home, I felt this inexplicable panic, almost unable to breathe because I was so anxious about spending the night away from home. In...

A lot of time passes while you are in college. Four years is a long time, especially at this age. We come into college at 18, barely an adult, and come out at 21 or 22, expected to enter the “real world”...

It’s the age-old trope about how food offered at any educational institution isn’t gourmet. As children, we watch TV shows where characters are forced to eat gray goo. We thank our lucky stars that...

For those who do not know, the show “Lucifer” is about the titular devil who gets tired of ruling hell and decides to take a vacation to Los Angeles. He then finds a beautiful detective and ends up...

Soccer took the United States by storm in 1994 when the country hosted the FIFA World Cup. The global sport was exposed to Americans on the international level, and it was very hard for them to avoid it...

At first glance, the majority of the month of February could be categorized as short and simple. Sure, there were some political and entertainment scandals thrown into the mix, but there wasn’t anything...

For as long as I can remember I have dreamed of living on the West Coast, particularly in California. As much as I love fall on the East Coast and the changing of the seasons, I feel as though being in...

Theater has always been a huge part of my life. I followed in my brother’s and sister’s footsteps and enrolled in the summer plays in my town since I was 9 years old. While I took a bit of a hiatus...