A major technological breakthrough is upon us. Bigger than smartphones, rivaling the internet: AI like ChatGPT and DALL-E2. These AI-driven tools process language naturally and use their massive indexes of […]
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The perks of working in your major
With so many on and off-campus jobs to choose from, working within the field I study has helped me become a better worker and student simultaneously. Picking a major and […]
What’s a college town without a movie theater?
As a freshman on campus, I have noticed that Big Rapids is not the same as Grand Rapids. I imagined that a college town would have lots of things for […]
EDITOR COLUMN: Netflix’s alienation of the college student
Netflix came for the college student last week to crack down on password sharing. In what they now claim to be a mistaken update to their US support articles, the […]
Saying yes while stressed
The month is September, the weather is warm and the timing? Perfect. At least that’s what I thought when the love of my life got down on one knee and […]
EDITOR’S COLUMN: We deserve more diverse queer representation
Before same-sex marriage was federally legalized in 2015, queer people rarely got a shred of representation in modern media, and what we did get reduced us to harmful and hurtful […]
HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’
HBO Max added a new series to the dying zombie genre with the release of the first few episodes of “The Last of Us,” based on the Naughty Dog video […]
Breaking the mold with a fold
Last month, when I found myself in need of a second phone for the sake of my own sanity, I dreaded buying another iPhone. My opinion from my column “iThink […]
No Spirit II: A New Hope
In my last opinion piece, I shredded the Ferris State student sections for being wastelands that had no to very little spirit. However, I write this piece with a new […]
EDITOR’S COLUMN: We expect better from our employers
Another massive round of big tech layoffs took place last Friday, marking nearly 50,000 employees’ final days at Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft. How did these employees find out? By […]