By Sarah Barrientos | ReporterMy grandmother was many things: spirited, care-free, adventurous and loving. Now, she’s dead. I regret never calling her.She died from cancer a few years ago, when I was just a sophomore in high school. I remember the most pressing issues I was facing at the time –– Would I get the lead in the school play? (Yes.) Would the cute guitar player at my church finally notice me? (No.) Would the world actually end? (It was 2012, and no.)My grandmother, and all her pestering attempts to be my friend and ask me how my day was,…
Author: Sarah Barrientos
By Sarah Barrientos | Reporter Although Halloween will end on Tuesday, don’t be surprised if you continue to see your Latino friends dressed up with skeletal face paint on the first and second of November. This isn’t a strange case of post-Halloween blues, but rather a celebration of an entirely different holiday: Dia de los Muertos. Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, originated in Mexico. However, celebrations of the holiday can also be found all over, especially in places like Texas and California, where large amounts of Mexican immigrants and people of Mexican descent currently live. According…
By Sarah Barrientos | ReporterMany students feel homesick at some point during their college career, but for Lagos, Nigeria, senior Tutu Adeyeni, the pain is especially real. Adeyeni’s home isn’t just a city away — it is a continent away.Adeyeni came to America because she received a scholarship from the Nigerian government. “I chose Baylor because it was a Christian school,” Adeyeni said. “The weather was kind of similar to Nigeria, so I thought I could survive here.” However, Adeyeni soon learned that the similarities between Waco and Lagos ended with the weather.Adeyeni described Nigeria as a collectivist society, which…
By Sarah Barrientos | ReporterTo the baby-faced freshmen who might be reading this, this is not for you. You are allowed to use the word “adulting” in Snapchats as you do your laundry without anyone nagging you to, and for the inevitable Instagram post of you and your roommates smiling wide at your first grocery trip to the local H-E-B without your parents by your side. Your “Bigs” will all ooh and awe at how cute you are in the comment section, their praises followed by a dozen heart emojis. No, this is a message for the fifth-year senior who…
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