Keto diet misconceptions
Earlier this week, the U.S News & World Report ranked the ketogenic diet as one of the lowest on the “best overall” scale. This prompted...
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Like it or not, climate change is ‘fracking’ here
In the 2020 Vice Presidential Debates last week, ‘fracking’ was a buzzword mentioned five times in a bid to undermine each other’s economic and climate...
Fall semester boundaries
Fall semesters are notoriously stressful for me. I’m not sure what makes them so much harder than spring semesters but it’s almost a ritual at...
No, football is not all that great
No football. No Tech vs. Georgia game, no Superbowl, no College Football Championship. It is a thought that seems to loom large on the mind...
The false promise of optimism
Twelve years ago, then-Senator Barack Obama told his supporters after the Iowa caucus that “Hope is not blind optimism. It’s not ignoring the enormity of...
A grocery store’s viral no-mask policy
Minutes away from campus, Produce Express-o, a newly-opened grocery store features the same facilities and products at competitive prices. What makes it different from its...
NOVID Brings New Meaning to Contact Tracing
In an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 across campus, the Tech administration and SGA have partnered with contact tracing app NOVID. The app...
Journaling through the pandemic
Four years ago I made a decision on a whim to try out journaling, not knowing then that it would later become a decision I...
In defense of flip phones
It’s very easy to watch the other humans on the bus and think that they are sad, screen-addicted aliens. Each one is fixed on their...
Ten years too long: modern day segregation
October 13th, 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of Georgia Board of Regents Policies 4.1.6 and 4.3.4. These two policies ban undocumented students in Georgia (yes,...
Being an international student at Tech in 2020
As we progress further into what seems to be a never-ending pandemic and a particularly brutal election cycle, it gets tougher and tougher for us...
Thoughts from a Black woman
An introduction to a series on being Black at Tech Nearly 60 years ago Malcolm X said “The most disrespected person in America is the...
The demise of WeChat
The recent events surrounding TikTok read like a dramatic, three-part saga: its initial ban by the Trump administration, its acquisition by Oracle and Walmart, and...
Career fair is not for everyone
Students would like to see more majors represented It is that time a year again when students break out their best suit jackets, slick resume...
America’s record-breaking 200,000 COVID-19 deaths
As we approach the eight-month anniversary of the first reported coronavirus case in America, the country surpasses the 200,000 mark of COVID-19 related deaths. It...
The ultimate cost of living
It costs $1,331.52 in tests and five vials of my blood for my primary care doctor to tell me that I needed to make an...
What Ruth Bader Ginsburg means to me
After five days of grieving for the Notorious RBG herself, there doesn’t seem to be much to add to the discourse surrounding the incredible body...
Leave my pumpkin spice latte season alone
Though the temperature forecast stays stubbornly in the 90s, when I turned my calendar page over to read the word September, it is almost as...