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Reconnect to your peers, professors and education offline   By JOAQUIN WATERS —- jwat@ucdavis.edu   There’s one university that every student my age has attended. This is a school unlike any other. It has only one classroom. The walls of this classroom are either blindingly white or suffocatingly dark, depending on your preference. The desks […]

Show up for yourself before you show up for your midterms   By MOLLY THOMPSON — mmtthompson@ucdavis.edu   It’s November. The sun sets earlier, but you go to bed later. Assignments roll in like the fog on ever-cooling mornings, flooding your Canvas dashboard like the floor of a faulty dorm shower stall. You’ve spent enough […]

We should call it fall quarter session II instead    By ANDIE TARABZOONI — rmtarabzooni@ucdavis.edu   Getting out of the festive, “it’s the most wonderful time of the year” mindset and entering winter quarter at the University of California, Davis is the most whiplashing set of events that can occur to an individual. Instead of […]

Western presentations of colonialism say the quiet part out loud when they don’t say anything at all   By GEETIKA MAHAJAN — giamahajan@ucdavis.edu   The story of colonization is over-simplified and over-sanitized in almost every retelling: Native Americans “died out” because of “disease”; the British “modernized” the people and technologies of India; the French “influenced” […]

How an African-led carbon tax could slow the effects of climate change    By MAYA KORNYEYEVA — mkornyeyeva@ucdavis.edu   Every year, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP) is held with the goal of bringing together world leaders and reassessing the most necessary path of climate action. An individual is designated as the […]

Man-machine interaction, psychological time and the loading logo   By MAYA KORNYEYEVA — mkornyeyeva@ucdavis.edu   Have you ever opened a software, clicked download on an update or fallen off a cliff in a video game? Each such action results in a miniature pause on the screen that triggers a series of complex calculations within the […]

Preventative action needs to be taken now to secure a safer future    By MAYA KORNYEYEVA — mkornyeyeva@ucdavis.edu   This July, our planet once again hit record-breaking global temperatures: with almost every consecutive day becoming the hottest day ever recorded. Florida water temperatures hit above 101 degrees Fahrenheit, drought and fire season were jointly declared […]

A fun trend and catchy Megan Thee Stallion song snowballed into something much bigger    By GEETIKA MAHAJAN — giamahajan@ucdavis.edu The concept of a “Hot Girl Summer” has been around since before I started high school — and to be honest, it makes perfect sense. Why wouldn’t you want to spend all summer being your […]

Stop waiting for timing that doesn’t exist   By YASMEEN O’BRIEN — yjobrien@ucdavis.edu   When I was in fourth grade, my dad got me a brand new pair of PF Flyers. They were the most pristine thing I had ever seen. They were the classics: all black with the logo in green, just like the […]

Finally, superhero movies are doing something right   By MAYA KORNYEYEVA — mkornyeyeva@ucdavis.edu   Earlier in the year, I wrote a column about my disappointment with the recent trend in the quality of movies produced by Marvel — every new movie seemed to lack the stunning energy and intrigue present in their earlier films. Well, […]

Trip recommendations based on your company, not your destination    By YASMEEN O’BRIEN — yjobrien@ucdavis.edu Somewhere with friends Traveling is a bonding experience, and doing it with friends will give you the opportunity to get closer and spend quality time together without everyday stressors. You’ll learn new things about each other throughout your travels. I […]

Professors need to find ways to improve engagement and learning   By AUDREY BOYCE — afboyce@ucdavis.edu   I am currently finishing up my second year as a psychology major here at UC Davis, and most of my psych classes, with the exception of one, have been in the same format: two or three lectures a […]