As graduation looms, I am forced to face the feelings of leaving the student newspaper which has become my second home over the last three years. I’ve had the privilege to learn and grow in this newsroom...

On September 7, 2021, the day before my first day of college, I laid down on my kitchen table and cried. That got uncomfortable, so I went up to my bedroom and cried some more. Even after declaring my...

When it comes to melancholy, dream pop and lofi are my drugs of choice. As the days grow longer, so does my desire for those sunny melodies and airy vocals. There’s something comforting about the...

One year ago, I strode across the street to the Walgreens inside the Howard Brown Health Center. Shaking with anxious excitement, I donned a mask and asked for my newest prescription: 2mg of Estradiol...

My mom and I have always shared a love for numbers — number games, number patterns, number puzzles. We’re fanatic Sudoku players. We’re quick to point out patterns on the clock: 11:11, 4:44, 5:55,...

If you’ve spent any time with me, you’ve no doubt had to sit through info dumps on my Dungeons & Dragons characters: my shapeshifter journalist bard Roman, my amnesiac halfling ranger Atlas, my...

Do you know how many DeJamz the DePaulia has published over the years? 210. That’s 210 unique playlists to compete with. Yikes! And this week is our religion issue. Anyone who knows me well is aware...

Puerto Rico is the pinnacle of reggaeton music. Born in the streets, pirated in cassettes and played on boomboxes in the projects, reggaeton served as a powerful outlet for Puerto Ricans to express themselves...

Puerto Rico es la cuna del reguetón. Nacido en las calles, pirateado en casetes y sonando en radios portátiles en los residenciales públicos, el reguetón sirvió como un canal para que los boricuas...

Quentin and Jeremy are very different people. One drinks coffee, the other drinks tea. One doesn't know the members of the X-Men, one does. One has listened to “Big Girls Don’t Cry” by Fergie on...

Jake and I, one half of the DePaulia management team, are on a combined 60 mg of Prozac. If our texts were ever leaked, you wouldn’t even want to look because of the daily crashouts that occur between...

It’s a little-known fact that I actually studied abroad (insert dramatic cigarette drag) in Ireland this fall. Did you know I worked in the Irish parliament? Why, yes darling, I met the Taoiseach, a...