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Opinion | Five things I wish I knew as a new student

By Delaney Rauscher Adams, Staff Columnist • August 8, 2024

Here are five things that made my college experience the best time of my life and are essential lessons for anyone going into their first year to make the most out of their college years.

Opinion | The many emotions you will feel during your college years — and some of my personal experiences

By Irene Moran, Staff Columnist • August 8, 2024

Your years in college are the years where you experience a wide variety of emotions — maybe a few too many emotions. You lose friends, experience heartbreak and do poorly on exams. But there is always more to it than just the bad things.

Opinion | First year isn’t as bad as it seems

By Emily O'Neil, Senior Staff Columnist • August 7, 2024

People tell you that college is going to be the best time of your life, which can make it seem like this big, ominous thing that you have to do correctly. I’ve learned that “doing college right” is not a real thing.

Opinion | Priority one for new students: Find a club

By Thomas Riley, Opinions Editor • August 6, 2024

There’s a very key difference, though, that makes it much easier to make a new friend at a club meeting. People go to a morning recitation because they have to. They go to a club meeting because they want to.

Opinion | Things you learn your first year of nursing school

By Danae Poteat, Staff Columnist • August 5, 2024

I was top of my class in high school, and I took AP classes and aced every single one of them. Nursing school couldn’t be that bad. But it was, in fact, that bad.

Opinion | Plan ahead even if you have no plan

By Livia LaMarca, Assistant Opinions Editor • August 4, 2024

You do a lot your first year. You learn about your interests, what kind of things you want to study and what kind of activities you want to spend your fleeting time with. Getting inundated and overrun is par for the course. However, there is a solution.

Opinion | Do not weigh Reddit law school forums too heavily this upcoming application cycle

By Livia LaMarca, Assistant Opinions Editor • July 18, 2024

Truthfully, online forums are quite possibly the worst, most competitive, most artificial environment any budding student with an interest in law can find themselves in. I tell everyone younger than myself and my fellow peers — stay off of Reddit forums.

Editorial | Why is political violence never okay in the US but perfectly fine overseas?

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • July 17, 2024

In their grand statements of unity and their condemnations of violence in politics, our nation’s leaders often sneak in a footnote that clarifies that their cries for peace only extend to America’s borders.

Opinion | Believe victims even if you don’t like them

By Delaney Rauscher Adams, Staff Columnist • July 12, 2024

Mongeau’s persona as a teen made much of the public quick to overestimate her maturity, and she was never given the same grace as Ko despite their difference in age. Her sexualization directly contributed to this narrative and is in large part why people won’t see this for what it is — a potential crime.

Opinion | Women pop stars and the pressure to evolve

By Livia LaMarca, Assistant Opinions Editor • July 10, 2024

While Swift is a notorious example of the constant evolution female pop stars must endure, there are very few modern female pop stars who escape the same fate as Ms. Taylor Swift.