Category: 2018

Editor’s note: This piece was originally written by Mike Nied during the Spring 2018 semester. It can be read in its entirety here.

I painted my nails yesterday. As I sit in my car (at a red light, I swear) typing away on my phone, I’m looking down at the rich color. It is too dark to qualify as emerald. Not blue enough to be a true teal. What really matters is that it is shiny.

Editor’s note: This piece was originally written by Ray Padilla during the Spring 2018 semester. It can be read in its entirety here.

They all gathered around a round table in a small office about the size of an average dorm room. In the center of the table was a small projector showcasing a Google slide onto the wall just three feet in front of them.

Editor’s note: This piece was originally written by Erik Svensson during the Spring 2018 semester. It can be read in its entirety here.

Scott McMaster remembers the toys he found as a child in a flea market dumpster. During a hot, dry day at Rogers flea market he found a few unrecognizable mutant-looking action figures peeking in. Every visit after, he’d be excited to check the dumpster, before eventual parental intervention broke that habit.

Editor’s note: This piece was originally written by Kellie Nock during the Spring 2018 semester. It can be read in its entirety here.

We walk in to the house and are immediately greeted by a flurry of tail wags and wiggles. In front of us is a small black-and-white mutt named Mikey—short for Michael. There’s some pit bull in him, giving him that signature square head, but owners Nate and Kaitie Conrad aren’t really sure all of what makes up the genetics of young Mikey. On his papers he is listed as a “pocket pittie,” a Pit Bull mixed with perhaps a Beagle.

Editor’s note: This piece was originally written by Kennedy Caldwell during the Spring 2018 semester. It can be read in its entirety here.

Every year, Kent State University’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation holds a pitch competition for student entrepreneurs. Seven student businesses made it to the final round on April 19. Of the seven teams, lied Annie Skoch, a young woman hoping to not only win the $15,000 cash prize but also the opportunity to universalize her startup with the help of entrepreneurial experts.

Editor’s note: This piece was originally written by Adrian Leuthauser during the Spring 2018 semester. It can be read in its entirety here.

Vinyl Records had a brief death but in the mid-2000s they rose again. I was in my basement, rummaging around for some of my old books because I wanted something to read. Around my freshmen or sophomore year of high school, I’m not entirely sure. It all seems to get clumped together into one, big year. I was looking for a particular book and using the yellow-dimmed lit light bulb as my only form of light, I remembered I loaned the book to a friend.

Editor’s note: This piece was originally written by Sierra Allen during the Spring 2018 semester. It can be read in its entirety here.

Almost four years ago, a scared 21-year-old girl boarded a plane in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China and arrived in the United States, a new world 6,838 miles away. As flight attendants explained the protocol emergency procedures, she doubted her decision and began questioning herself. “Oh my gosh, why are you here, you should be with your family,” she thought. But there was no way to change her mind.

Editor’s note: This piece was originally written by Davy Vargo during the Spring 2018 semester. It can be read in its entirety here.

Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days. To the millennial mind, living to be 60 may seem absurd. The same millennial mind, obsessed with instant pleasures, might consider the thought of being married for 60 years utterly impossible. After all, they say, what’s the point of getting married when it seems nearly every other person divorces? Marriages certainly crumble, though sometimes a marriage may last, and last for many a year. For four couples in northeast Ohio, their marriages did last.

Editor’s note: This piece was originally written by Jillian Holness during the Spring 2018 semester. It can be read in its entirety here.

Editor’s note: This piece was originally written by Natasha Heinz during the Spring 2018 semester. It can be read in its entirety here.

A friend recently came to visit me for two weeks around spring break. Before Luiza arrived, we planned a trip that included a weekend in New York, a few days in Kent and a way too long drive to Florida in search of warm weather and sun. Almost nothing about the plan bothered me. We’d spend most of 14 days just the two of us, with nowhere (and no one) to run to after arguments, but we had traveled around Germany together in 2012 and we were still friends. I couldn’t get one thing out of my head, though: What would we listen to during the trip?