By: Mary Catherine Ellington Do you feel that the current measures being taken for COVID-19 are effective and have demonstrated significant improvement within the United States and globally as well? If not, your theories could also be aligning with those … Read more

According to the CDC, the United States is more obese than ever before, hitting a new high of 42.4% obesity in adults (Hales et al. 2018). Curiously, not all populations are affected equally. To investigate the obesity epidemic on the … Read more

After what has been a tumultuous first few weeks, it seems the dust has finally settled and everyone is getting into the groove of college. Like usual, we began our classes with a daily check-in, which is something that I … Read more

Ahhh… a much needed three day weekend! This school week was only four days due to labor day… Thank goodness! During these chaotic and tiring times, plenty of students, myself included, have felt like a hamster frantically running on a … Read more

People who suffer from mental disorders are also very closely connected with opioid use.  “The opioid use population is over half Americans who have mental disorders” (Davis 2017). The scholarly article states that people with mental disorders are more likely … Read more

Well, what a first few weeks of college these have been! In these abnormal times we all are living in, really, we all are just trying to get through the ocean of life as smoothly as possible in these rocky … Read more

Somewhere in the middle of this fourth week, it finally hit me: I’m a college student. The week before, we had been given two days off to allow students to both figure out their living situations, and to just generally … Read more

By: Chris Hewgley Week three at UNC was very unusual. The previous week, students received the news that the majority of on-campus students must leave due to the rapid increase of COVID-19 cases in Chapel Hill. This caused everyone’s world … Read more

One… two… pause… three! Our third week started with a much needed pause of classes after main campus occupancy fell from 60.5% to 15.1% in just one week. These two days “off” were spent in various ways: students packed up, … Read more

The second week for me at Carolina was a complete roller coaster. The weekend before, my good friend’s suitemate tested positive for COVID-19. My entire suite had contact with him, so now we were all at risk. One of my … Read more