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By Project SafeRide Imagine this, it’s a nice 70 degrees outside. Nothing about this weather feels dangerous. Your spouse had to leave early, so today, you’re responsible for dropping your toddler off at daycare. It’s 8 AM, and your child is fast asleep as you gently place them in the back seat, careful not to wake them. You get into the driver’s seat, exhausted, and begin your commute.  As you drive, your mind drifts: to emails, work, everything waiting for you. You follow y

By: Built For Balance “I’m just tired.” That’s something you hear students say every day. We say it while walking to 1st period and after practice, when we’re not just tired, but burned out.  This problem has slowly become part of the high school experience. In fact, 3 out of 4 high school students experience burnout. Austin is the seventh most burned-out city in the country. But the real question is: when did constantly feeling drained become normal? To answer that question,

By: Claire Song, Claire Winchell, Pushkal Chitrada, Yeshwin Gadde Have you ever seen something online and it turns out to not be real? Many things online can be deceiving if interpreted incorrectly. The media isn’t only a tool for communication and connection; curated digital personas can also be controlling and biased. Social media influences society negatively by giving unrealistic living standards that can affect users mentally and physically. Influencers display unreal

By: Project UPLINK At some point between graduating high school and entering adulthood, many young people realize something uncomfortable: school taught us how to succeed academically, but not how to function in the real world. We learned how to analyze literature, solve quadratic equations, and memorize historical timelines. But when it comes to filing taxes, applying for jobs, understanding credit, or navigating workplace expectations, most of us were left to figure it ou

By: Celeste Song Love Is Love Have you always wondered why there are so many flaws in real world relationships? No matter how many times you fantasize and dream of that perfect relationship you always wanted, there will always be a problem, a wall, something that goes wrong. In “Why Can’t Men Love Like Women” by Peggy Drexler Ph.D., Drexler explains how men's brains are not only wired differently, but built differently. She cites credible sources such as neuroscientist Dr. R

By: Whisk Out Cancer Sunday, October 26 Imagine someone important in your life. Someone whose presence deeply matters to you, and consider how easily their world could change if they were affected by cancer, a serious illness.  When you realize that one in eight women are   diagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetime, it becomes clear that this is an issue that reaches far more families than many people initially recognize. Around forty-three thousand women die from

By: Mission Heartbeat The Advocacy for Women's Health “74 countries do not have any legal provision that ensures mothers can return to the same jobs” (Agarwal, 2022). In order for mothers to feel comfortable taking time off work to care for their newborns, they would benefit from more maternal healthcare support. Around the globe, countries mandate different laws for family leave, with some requiring 12-14 weeks and others requiring none. It’s prevalent that countries ratify

By: Mission Microplastics Microplastics As Linda Geddes states in 2025, “our cerebral organs alone may contain 5g of the stuff, or roughly a teaspoon”. Microplastics are plastic particles less than 5 millimeters long that have been found in our bloodstreams, lungs, and even our brains. We once advocated for the reason that microplastics harm ocean life, but current research states that microplastics are also a health hazard to human populations and are a global environmental

By: Lights Out | Insomnia Campaign Insomnia Awareness Have you ever felt the whole world has fallen asleep but you? The clock blinks, 3:00 AM, and you’re lying in bed, eyes wide open. Your mind won’t stop racing, and your body is heavy from exhaustion, begging for rest, yet your thoughts won’t slow down. You try everything, changing pillows, counting sheep, and even gaslighting yourself into thinking you have nothing to do tomorrow. But nothing works. Sleep doesn’t just feel

Have women been ignored for too long on such topics as Period Poverty? Read this article to find out more about the societal issues we must face to confront period poverty.

Every well-written piece of literature has a beginning, middle, and end. Our lives, similarly, have a beginning, a middle, and perhaps an...

By Prisha Ajmani Right before you speak in front of an audience, there’s this moment when everything feels still. Nothing in the room...

With less water than you think, boiling on high heat, the wavy cut noodles start to simmer. Take your wooden chopsticks, not metal, not...

With the recent flooding of Central Texas, one problem that is not seen enough is the number of pet shelters and pets that need supplies....

Pro-Life activist advocate and protest outside the building of The U.S Supreme Court Introduction I: What is Abortion and How Did it...