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Opinion | Digital well-being looks different for everyone

By Abigail Dobry, Senior Staff Columnist • January 18, 2024

Most resolutions I hear from family, friends or online communities consist of bettering themselves. Everyone starts going to the gym or cutting out sugar. For others, their form of betterment is about holding themselves accountable by saving money, spending less on non-essentials. My New Year’s resolution is a different form of bettering myself. I want to improve my digital well-being.

Opinion | Making art when you’re depressed feels impossible — do it anyway

By Livia Daggett, Contributing Editor • January 17, 2024

When you build your identity, even a comparatively low-stakes one like your undergraduate major, around your ability to generate a creative product, it’s terrifying to feel like you’ve lost that ability.

Opinion | SCOTUS’ history and traditions test is decimating our civil rights

By Livia LaMarca, Assistant Opinions Editor • January 12, 2024

Why have cases like Dobbs v. Jackson, 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis and Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard taken the country by storm, stripping people of their rights and threatening others in the process?

Opinion | Leave the lights on this semester and avoid an all-consuming seasonal depression

By Thomas Riley, Opinions Editor • January 11, 2024

Leaving the lights on is an easy way to ward off the winter blues because it requires very little effort. It’s just a simple three steps from your desk, and hey, there’s some exercise for the day.

Opinion | In and Out lists are out for 2024

By Gabriela Herring, Staff Columnist • January 11, 2024

The most recent iteration of the New Year’s resolution is less formal, less traditional and less confining. The In and Out list is the casual, much cooler, younger sister of the New Year’s resolution.

Opinion | Social media and shopping should stay separate entities

By Kelly Xiong, Senior Staff Columnist • December 8, 2023

In a society where we already overconsume so much content, we do not need social media to make it worse than it already is. Social media should be a platform for content creation, sharing pictures and videos and just an overall peaceful place where you can mindlessly scroll for hours. What it should not be is a shopping platform.

Opinion | Romanticizing finals week is necessary to get through it

By Delaney Rauscher Adams, Staff Columnist • December 7, 2023

I prefer to shift my perspective on the hectic end of the semester to a more positive outlook. Gaslighting myself into viewing finals season as an enjoyable and productive time proves to be a surprisingly effective strategy in making the entire experience more bearable.

Column | ‘Birder-in-Chief’ takes flight as she graduates from The Pitt News (and college)

By Punya Bhasin, Assistant News Editor • December 6, 2023

107 articles later, Assistant News Editor Punya Bhasin writes her final piece, her senior column, as she graduates from college and The Pitt News.

Opinion | Warped Tour should be brought back

By Irene Moran, Staff Columnist • December 4, 2023

Warped Tour paved the way for so many huge bands in the rock, alternative, pop-punk and indie rock scenes.

Opinion | Pay attention to the language of war

By Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger, Senior Staff Columnist • December 4, 2023

Language and its employment are not free from responsibility. Context must be applied, relentlessly. We need to question definitions and designations, what they reveal about who is setting them, and what it means to grant authority to those in that position.