A Political Conversation with my Grandparents: From Vietnam to 2020
For this article, I interviewed my grandparents, Susan and Ken, on their political views and involvement, ranging from the war in Vietnam...
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Voting With Your Wallet: Why it Matters Where You Spend Your Money
Twitter is a go-to social media platform for memes, news, expressing your feelings, and keeping updated on friends and celebrities. However...
Hiking and Healing: A Summer Road Trip
Virginia is hot and humid in the summer, almost oppressively so. The August sun glares out of an obtrusive blue sky, onto mountainous...
On Being a Legacy
I have a very close relationship with my mom. She has been a stay-at-home mom since I was born, and because of that, I have had the amazing...
5 Lessons from Queer Eye That Changed My Life
I started watching Netflix’s Queer Eye on a lazy Saturday morning when I was looking to engage in self-care. I was expecting the wholesome...
Tracing My Thoughts Through My Mother
Have you ever asked your thoughts where they brought themselves from? I asked mine, and they said they came from somewhere called syllable...
On College Apps and Comparing Journeys
College application season is a competitive, high-stakes process that looms large for many high-school seniors. Many students that now...
On GPA
When I first read Adam Grant’s December 8th opinion piece “What Straight-A Students Get Wrong” in the New York Times, I was upset. My whole...
The Perfect Lizzo Song for Whatever Mood You're In
Unless you’re new to my Her Campus articles, you probably know that I harbor an endless supply of love for the Minneapolis-based singer,...
7 Ways I Broke Up With Heartbreak
I won’t lie. I’ve had a rough start to the year. From the stress of Rush Week (not the ideal experience for an anxious introvert) to boy...
10 Reasons Having a Roommate in the Winter is Way Better
After living in a single last year, I had my worries about spending my sophomore year with a roommate. Yes, she was one of my best friends...
Getting Older
Over Thanksgiving Break, I turned nineteen, and I spent the day driving through my hometown, searching for the small, mundane sights that...
How to Become Unathletic
May of 2018 marked the last month I would ever run competitively. My final race wasn’t particularly victorious or exciting. In fact, during...
On the Notion of Siblings
Three years ago I moved away from my hometown, a place where my last name “Minor” was an identifier that meant basically the entire town...
Subscription Box Review: Simple Loose Leaf
Subscription boxes are all the rage. They come in every possible theme, delivering all the products you could think of to your doorstep...
5 Tips for Getting Back Atop Your... Work!
We’re at that low point in the semester: assignments have piled, finals and final projects loom, unfinished readings haunt your bookshelf,...
From Binging to Balance
For years, I’ve struggled to find a balance in fitness. I’ve tried long distance running, biking, yoga, and dance classes, to mention just...
Being Human
Trigger warning: this article discusses eating disorders and related thoughts and conditions. How do you turn away from something that has...
Five Years of Yoga
My first time trying yoga was not a happy experience. The team had just finished a gruesome forty minute run in the frigid, pouring rain,...
Literary Idols
For much of my junior year of high school, I carried around a small scrap of paper tucked into my phone case. On it I had written the...
