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An Overly Normalized Cycle

Skipping one lecture to survive another deadline can feel harmless—until it becomes a pattern you can’t escape. In An Overly Normalized Cycle, Kayla Hoang captures the quiet burnout many CNS students know all too well, tracing how optimism turns into overcommitment, fear-driven productivity, and emotional exhaustion. Blending student voices with honest reflection, this piece confronts the academic survival mode we’ve normalized—and offers a gentler, more sustainable way forward.

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The Hidden Hands of the Internet

When Canvas went dark for UT students one October morning, it felt like a minor inconvenience—until it revealed something far bigger. In The Hidden Hands of the Internet, Ethan Trejo unpacks how a single Amazon Web Services outage exposed the quiet dominance of a few corporations that power our digital lives. From cloud computing to banking and media, this piece explores how efficiency and convenience come at the cost of fragility—and why understanding the systems we rely on matters more than ever.

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