Student Speak

Let’s Agree to Disagree
Michelle Shen | July 10, 2020
A few days ago, I graduated from Penn. It’s a moment I had anticipated for years, and now I am entering a world and workforce rife with uncertainty. While Penn taught me a lot of

My body is not a joke
Kirsten Keels | July 3, 2020
While casually scrolling Facebook (for the hundredth time that day), I noticed a meme about looking like a busted can of biscuits when it comes time to go back to work, to go to the

You Catch More Flies With Honey
Savon Bardell | June 26, 2020
After discussing my last article detailing the performative allyship that happens on social media, my editor told me that while my article was precise and interesting, it was not as forward as he had expected.

This isn’t normal
Julia Chaffers | June 12, 2020
A tweet went around this week saying that if you don’t come out of quarantine with a new skill or more knowledge, “you didn’t ever lack the time, you lacked the discipline.” It was a

Panic and propriety
Tommy Schacht | June 5, 2020
“What we need in the world is manners … I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.”

Graduating Jobless
Jacqueline Horn | May 22, 2020
I graduated from Cornell with a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering in 2016. Not only did I graduate without a job offer, but I never even had an interview. I certainly applied to

On navigating isolation, together
Caroline Spertus | May 15, 2020
Carl Jung defines an extroverted attitude as “a standpoint characterized by an outward flowing of personal energy — an interest in events, in people and things, a relationship with them and a dependence on them.”

Accommodations, year-round
Adam Moore | May 1, 2020
As we enter our third week of courses conducted entirely online and adjust to this new reality, we need to ask ourselves: Why weren’t these services readily available before the COVID-19 pandemic? These services include:

How to succeed at “Zoom University”
Samantha Minnehan | April 24, 2020
Having half of our semester online due to the COVID-19 outbreak was a big shock to The University of Tampa community. These past couple of weeks have felt like an eternity, sitting in the house




