Author: Baylee Versteeg

By Baylee VerSteeg | Multimedia JournalistTwo weeks ago, as I casually scrolled through my Facebook feed during breakfast, I received a notification that a guy I had dated for one month six years ago poked me. I blinked at it, startling my roommates as I blurted aloud the squirming questions moving around in my head: What does it mean? Am I flirting with him if I poke back? What is the point of poking this guy back, especially given that it is highly unlikely that I will ever see him again? The conversation my roommates and I had was a…

By Baylee Versteeg | Multimedia JournalistIn 2008, the internet company Cisco released a new marketing campaign called the Cisco Human Networking Effect. This campaign was designed to reflect the way the internet has changed how the world communicates for the better. Cisco altered its entire company’s image around the gamble that the internet would bring people together, promote unity and be the step toward a better, more empathetic humanity.The discussion of whether or not that has actually been the case so far in internet history can go both ways. Was Cisco’s prediction right or wrong? More than anything, it has…

Olympic athlete Leticia de Souza from Sao Paulo, Brazil runs the 400 meter event for Baylor’s track team. After a rough year in 2015, she came to Baylor to be coached by Clyde Hart, a seasoned Baylor coach who has lead numerous athletes to the international success. But de Souza is more than an athlete. She is passionate about helping people be their healthiest, and hopes to become a nutritionist.

A small comment from my roommate sends me into a spiral of uncertainty.

Twitter has done more to divide our nation than it has done to connect it. Here’s why.