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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.
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.
Risbud discusses the importance of representation in clinical trials.
Park considers the role of CS in the college of CNS.
Nicole Helms investigates the origin of pugs and how breeding has changed them.
Jace Gertz discusses being low-income in STEM and ways to address ongoing disparities in education.
Nicole Helms takes a look at the history and current state of evolution education in the United States.
Taylor Carroll discusses the hysteria that surrounds global diseases and the importance of understanding the science behind them.
Owolabi discusses the importance of abortion rights, the passage of Senate Bill 8, and what it means for Texas women.
Owolabi provides tips on how to identify and combat immature learning, and empowers readers to take ownership of their learning to succeed.
Owolabi offers her two cents on the increasing politicization of wearing masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Penley outlines the mission of the Argument Driven Inquiry project and discusses why we should transform our education system to focus on applicability for major societal issues.
Lu takes a mathematical approach in conveying the importance of wearing a mask to stop the spread of COVID-19.