Three years ago, amid a global pandemic, I “realized” what I was meant to do in life and what my purpose was as I committed to Iona before my freshman year. However, little did I know that like Jon...

I have thrown up in every building on campus, excluding North but including Conese. The scariest of times is when it came out of my nose with the pain not going away until two days later. It is not like...

Finally, I made it. Well, there is still some way to go, but I am so close that I can feel that highly anticipated exhale building up and expanding in my lungs. On December 21st, when all is said and done,...

For a holiday that has seemingly become more popular over the years and is close in proximity to Christmas, I have realized that Thanksgiving movies are actually quite hard to come by. To be fair, I guess...

Food, football and family, what is much better than that?   As I have gotten older, the winter holidays now have different meanings and purposes to me. Christmas is no longer about presents and Santa...

Stamped at 3:38 a.m. on Oct. 5, my friend texted me to ask what it meant when she could only think about her mother as she was tired and alone in the back of an Uber.     I talk to my mom every...

Before the age 11, I didn’t think I had any hobbies or interests. I’m not saying I wasn't good at anything, but I just couldn’t find anything that gave me inspiration.     In high school,...

October 20th, 2023 marked the release of blink-182’s tenth studio album and their long-awaited reunion following the band’s original members disbanding in 2012.   The album sees the return of...

My first language was silence…I learned it at a very young age. If this achievement had been publicized in the right ways, I could have been an “infant” prodigy. I can see it in a newsletter headline,...

I was unabashedly annoying from the ages of eight to twelve. I would spend birthdays, Christmas or anytime my parents would go into Midtown at the American Girl Doll Store. I would bring my dolls in their...

Being a senior is a very scary feeling for most people including myself who has no idea what lies ahead after graduation. Figuring out what the next step is, whether it be graduate school or finding a...

As I sit here at my desk, attempting to write as I usually do when doing assignments or articles for my internship and in my spare time, my brain feels foggy and the waterfall of ideas that usually floods...