With the end of the year comes panic, both over finals and finalizing last minute details as people prepare to move for the summer. Everything should be going smoothly, but instead we’re sitting here wondering why a stranger is in our house. Read more

Bearcats, let’s be honest; we all have that one friend who just won’t shut up about the same problems. If I have to hear one more time about how your roommate puts the toilet paper on backwards, I don’t think we can have lunch anymore. Read more

Far too often, adults, or rather adults already done with college or in their later years, flock to the word “kid” when they disagree with a younger person’s opinion. Read more

I bought the condoms. I borrowed the handcuffs. I shaved my legs that hadn’t seen the business end of a razor in a long time. Read more

Hidden beneath sinks, stowed behind cartons of milk and stashed in unused trash cans, we all know it’s there. Most of the students living in Forest Village Apartments have alcohol stored away like we are Al Capone during the height of the 1920s. Read more

When people refuse to respond to certain forms of communication, it makes you wonder just how advanced we’ve become. Read more

The University Police Department’s entire ticketing system is a full blown scam. Read more

My dorm room is supposed to be a place where I can relax after a long day. However, my refuge is lost when you and your boyfriend on the other bed can’t stop touching each other. Read more

The loaded fries in the Bearcat Common’s lunch have been the worst dining experiment I have seen in my three years at this school. Read more

When it comes to dishes, it’s a simple equation: water, plus soap, plus elbow work equals clean dishes. For some unfathomable reason though, this simply hasn’t sunk in to some people’s heads. Read more

After nights of mindlessly doing busy work because a professor is too lazy to teach me, and days of sitting in classes filled with morbid silence because the professor refuses to teach the concept, I can confidently say I despise the flipped classroom model. Read more

Ice, snow and general wear and tear have become synonymous with winter and has caused potholes to form throughout campus and in town. Read more

“Slippery When Wet” is a better Bon Jovi album than conditions walking to class. Read more

Classes are back in session, and I know I can’t sleep as much as I did before the break. I actually have to wake up before noon. Read more

Noon is the lunch rush hour. Avoid it if at all possible. Go an hour earlier or wait an hour. Read more

It is barely 30 degrees outside, so it’s better to stay home where it is around 68 degrees. Stay indoors as much as possible. There is no risk of being cold and miserable by staying on a couch under a fleece blanket during your free time. Read more

With the holiday season out in full force, it is time to begin shopping for gifts for our loved ones as we head into the month of December. While it may seem easy to order everything online from Amazon or Wal-Mart, going out to local shops has an even greater benefit not only in the gift bei… Read more

With the start of the holiday season, a lot of Bearcats and other people are going to be traveling home. But, it seems like a lot of drivers have forgotten the rules of driving or thrown the book out the window and need a reminder of how driving on a highway works. Read more

Black Friday has overshadowed Thanksgiving. Read more

With the recent change in daylight hours, there have been more drivers who think they need their high beams, or in layman’s terms, brights, of their car on 24/7. Read more

There are many things I wasn’t prepared for when I started college. I never knew how to deal with a roommate, or how far it’d actually take me to walk to the Union. The one which has caused the most grief, however, is learning how to share the laundry room and proper laundry room etiquette. Read more

University buildings now have the heat running to combat the cold, but the temperature is set too high. The residence halls are the worst. Read more

Last year when it was announced that freshmen could return to their residence halls as upperclassmen and Franken Hall would have two upperclassmen floors, I was ecstatic. What I didn’t anticipate was having to deal with the same freshman fire alarm issues as an upperclassman. Read more

Everybody knows water is essential to the human body, yet the Maryville water has me questioning if I really need it to survive. Read more

There are students who take up the whole sidewalk by walking in the middle. Read more

As a college student, I survive off of coffee and that is about it. However, it has become more of a challenge to get my caffeine fix on the weekends. Read more

The Bearcat Commons chocolate soft serve hasn’t been available on multiple days in the past week. Read more

There’s nothing like needed construction to really make it feel like a new year at Northwest. Read more

It is 2018, and even with all of the strides made by our society to be politically correct and civil, the issue of race is still being dealt with every single day. It is ridiculous that people are still being judged for the color of their skin. Read more

Students don’t only want more bins, students need more bins for efficiency and a better experience for those moving in. Read more

On behalf of all the neighbors living next to, under, above and around your noisy habits, please, for the sake of every tired college student, be quiet and leave us to sleep in peace during finals week. Read more

It is common for us to think if we do not vote or participate in an election or understand the government, then it is not our fault when pieces of legislation are passed that we do not agree with, but this thought process is inherently wrong. Read more

While spring break may have been relaxing, the next five weeks are going to be filled with massive amounts of stress and sleepless nights. Read more

As college students, it is known that we have little regard for our lives while crossing the street. We all have looked cars in the headlights as we cross, giving drivers little to no time to slow, repeating the mantra in our heads, “Hit me, hit me, please, this tution needs to be paid.” as … Read more

As a media student, I will always advocate for people to stay up-to-date in the news. As a busy student with better things to do than read the newspaper, I will still advocate for people to pick up the latest paper to skim over. Read more

After this past week, I honestly could not believe we had lost another member of our Northwest family. The longer I am here on this campus, the more you all feel like a family to me. While I may remain anonymous with this story, I care about every single one of you. Read more

“I just want a rich husband, so I don’t have to do anything,” said the girl next to me in class. Our professor told us to state our name, where we are from, and what we wanted to do in life. Instead of the girl next to me saying what career she wanted, she stated how good of a housewife she … Read more

There are a million-and-one ways you can spend $90, and a parking pass shouldn’t be one of them. Read more

Hearts, roses and romantic movies are staples for this time of year. So it is that time of year again, Valentine’s Day, and everyone is buying flowers or chocolate for the people they love. It just makes me sick. Read more

With people driving like there’s no tomorrow, I’m just like, “Jesus, take the wheel.” Read more

Bearcats, listen up. It’s time for us to be children again, and I don’t just mean in the idea where we keep trying to eat laundry detergent. I mean it’s time we put on our comfy PJs, watch cartoons and pretend we don’t have a mountain of homework. Read more

It amazes me that the ones who can sit cozy behind their plush and probably warm desk are the ones who get to decide whether we die or not. Read more

With 2018 already upon us, I’m sure there are quite a few people who have already made and started their New Year’s resolutions in some way or manner. New year, new you, right? Read more

It’s the special time of year where nothing makes sense: finals season. Read more

With all of the construction happening on campus, it has become harder and harder to get a decent parking space. This has led to people parking in the handicapped spots or using it as a loading and unloading area even though they do not have any handicapped placards or license plates. Read more

Fall is a time to bring people together. The holidays are upon us, and the holidays are supposed to be to bring people together. Instead of coming together, students are ignoring each other. Fall is here, and it makes our campus twice as beautiful. So why, if it’s so beautiful, do students i… Read more

I have been a sorority woman since my freshman year and a journalist for just as long. I love both dearly. Sometimes, though, it seems like they are at odds, tearing me apart in the process. Read more