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Suffering is something that people aim to avoid at all costs, seeking the easy, comfortable life instead. However, suffering can be a beautiful, purifying thing, unveiling our desire for something deeper and drawing us into a beautiful intimacy with Christ.

Students can complete more than 120 credit hours and still feel unprepared to navigate a professional setting. Writing a clear business email and participating in workplace meetings are skills often learned outside a college’s coursework.

It is not uncommon to hear someone say, half-laughing, that they didn’t even last a week. The remark is meant to be humorous, but it reveals something deeper. Failure in Lent has become social embarrassment rather than spiritual reflection. Success has become a badge of religious credibility. The language of repentance has been replaced by the language of achievement.

Whether you want to admit it or not, sex can never truly be casual. Even so, undergraduates routinely turn to it in college, as they seek after the “college experience,” in an effort to cure their own feelings of loneliness.

Friendship in 2026 has been complicated, to say the least. Loyalty often feels temporary, and delayed replies seem to come with an expiration date — even with missed calls and unread text messages. Only one thing remains constant: dogs.

I think sometimes God plants a desire in your heart long before you understand why. And sometimes the place you try to talk yourself out of is the very place you were meant to be.

The object of this article is not to scrutinize your personal upbringing, family or church; however, if your own questions were routinely shut down and reframed as a “lack of faith,” you might consider the uncomfortable reality that you were indoctrinated into your beliefs.

America is the greatest nation in the world, purely because of what we are made of and what we believe in. We believe in democracy. We believe in liberty, “a city shining upon a hill.” America is a place like no other, a light to all. Even if its light has dimmed, it can be brightened once again. The institutions we have lost our faith in can be trusted once again. Our nation will not be judged by how far it’s fallen, but by how tall it will stand after.

Two things can be true at once. You can love Sing because of its exciting production and fabulous dance numbers and criticize it for its shortcomings. If you didn’t get tickets this year, for whatever reason, that’s OK. You aren’t any less green and gold for missing the Greeks shake and belt one out.

While everyone talks about “Sing season” and the excitement surrounding it, that thrill isn’t universal. Students who aren’t in Greek life, who don’t have the connections or inside knowledge often watch from the sidelines, sometimes literally. Sing becomes a celebration for some and a reminder of exclusion for others.

It wasn’t until I began to see how much of my insecurity was rooted not in incapability but in the false negative narrative I was repeating to myself that I could thrive as a young professional.

Even when it seemed like all hope was lost for Lindsey Vonn, she affirmed in her post that the act of standing at the gate, starting her run and competing was victory enough. So chase your dreams, work hard and most importantly, don’t let small hurdles stop you from taking risks and excelling. Life is hard sometimes, but the courage to stand at that starting gate is all it takes to start your next adventure.

Everyone has a moment in time, even if brief, where they struggle spiritually. The best any of us can do is to mend our relationship with God with the least amount of regrets, even when it’s hard to understand what His plans are for us. I know one of the few regrets I will have leaving college is that I didn’t find my spiritual happiness (again) with him sooner.

We all start the year with good intentions, but by mid-February, most of those resolutions are long forgotten. The real question isn’t whether you set goals, it’s whether you’ve built the habits that make them stick.

Walk through the SUB on any given Tuesday, and you’ll hear it: the low-hum anxiety of the junior slump mixed with the chime of AI-tutor notifications. We are the generation of the 49%. We’ve seen the headlines, and we know that half of the country thinks our degrees are about as useful as a VHS tape in a streaming world.

There is a first time for everything, and no one is perfect at a new thing right away, so you should not expect yourself or anyone else to get everything right immediately.

With Hollywood moving more and more into the streaming space, the doomsday clock for movie theaters is counting down.

While many young Christians try to find their path outside of their parents’ faith, they should turn to spiritual literature to give them some much desired guidance.

If we are not outraged enough about the Epstein files, it is not because the crimes were unclear. It is because outrage requires something of us. It requires attention, courage and to care more about exploited children than about the comfort of the powerful.

What could the success of “Iron Lung” mean for the future of the film industry?

When service becomes performative, it stops being about who we are serving and starts being about who is watching.

Tired of seeing fellow 20-year-olds running a marathon, playing pickleball or going to Japan? Here are four different activities to make you still feel accomplished and find community.

When someone reports a burglary, we don’t ask whether the door was locked. When someone is mugged, we don’t analyze their innocence. But when someone reports sexual assault, belief comes with conditions.

We would argue that the egregious spending is not the result of increased love this year — it’s a crutch. It’s less effort (though not for your wallet) to lavish someone with gifts to make up for where you’ve fallen short than to simply change your behavior. But, as many a boyfriend, girlfriend, husband and wife will learn come Feb. 14, conversation hearts don’t equate to real conversations, and a dozen roses still come with thorns.

Color-coded calendars are filled to the brim with classes, shifts, workouts and hopefully blocking out time to eat in our busy schedules, while finding time with friends is treated like a luxury.

​The destruction caused by ChatGPT use is a silent killer. Not only are we losing the quintessential nature of humanity, but we are simultaneously destroying our planet at the same time — all in the name of convenience.

Walking through any freshman door during the first week, you will see the anticipation. But under that, there is an uneven playing field that goes unnoticed. Universities pride themselves on global enrollments and the way they cater to freshmen, but that could not be further from the truth. International freshmen start further back from where the race begins.

It is not out of the ordinary for the public to have beef with Ticketmaster. From inflated ticket prices to website crashes and dealing with scalpers, it feels like every time an A-list artist goes on tour, they find themselves in hot water. Noah Kahan has taken proactive measures to make the fans a priority for ticket sales.

In light of political unrest, celebrities speak out for those who can’t. But is speaking out at award shows the best way to do so?

Diabetes is often treated as a personal failure rather than a medical condition. That misunderstanding fuels stigma, discrimination and worsened health outcomes for millions.