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BY BOJANA GALIC Inhaling deeply, Cory Hirsch[1] bench presses 200 pounds, a bead of sweat dripping down his face. He repeats the exercise ten times, each a little more strained than the last, and finally finishes the third set. Hirsch sits up on the bench and takes a swig of […]
BY SHELBY JORDAN Off-season. We dream of it during all the doubles, dry-land workouts, and weekend-long swim meets, but once it’s here, we’re lost. Free time is a completely unfamiliar concept to us. We’ve spent the past five months planning around practice times, scrambling to get homework done, and functioning […]
By BOJANA GALIC Now that you have dabbled in jogging, you’re ready for your next challenge, a 5k. You picked the right race. A realistic goal for newbies, the 5k is the first milestone for every runner. The 3.1-mile-long event is the most popular race distance, so it won’t be […]
By AMANDA REGALADO With the Trump administration threatening to institute a 20% tariff on all Mexican goods, Millennials are crying out, “#avocadogate!”
By RILEY CARDOZA There’s more to turning 21 than bar hopping and fake-ID tossing — it’s the year of the pap smear! Although getting your cervix swabbed may not sound like fun, the procedure checks for cancerous and precancerous cells and just might save your life.
By LILY STARBUCK Where one millennial stands on abortion rights. And why she’s still fighting. Sylvia Abdullah greeted shoppers at the entrance to a cramped, sun-filled pre-war apartment in the heart of Soho. She maneuvered her way past an overflowing coat rack and over boxes, bags, and piles of second […]
By EMILY WOOD Emma Sulkowicz—the mattress-toting student at Columbia University—has become a household name as photographs of her carrying her dorm room mattress around campus have flooded Facebook newsfeeds and even The New York Times. Sulkowicz uses her mattress as a creative protest of the lack of disciplinary action taken […]
By KATE STARR One early October night at a Washington D.C. Mexican restaurant, Lily Gewirz, 19, is glued to her smartphone as the waitress takes orders from the group of four high school girlfriends. “I’ll have the chicken fajitas,” she says, without making eye contact. When the pre-meal chips and […]
By LILY STARBUCK New York, NY – Marissa Raskin, 21-year-old senior at New York University, will be reaching for a glass of wine this Thursday night in the comfort of her shared apartment. Her drink of choice? “Charles Shaw Pinot Grigio. $3 a bottle baby,” she says with pride. She’ll […]
By KIRA HARADA-STONE It’s Sunday afternoon and the line at the Manhattan 14th street Trader Joe’s starts at the door and wraps around the entire store. The line is filled with millennial New Yorkers stocking up for the week. A young woman wearing a bowler hat is trying to shove her […]