There is no straightforward answer. Who you are, where you come from and what you want all shape whether college is worth it. The question isn’t just if college pays off. It’s for whom and under what circumstances.
Madison doesn’t need any more rooftop pools or private hot tubs. We need a housing system that sees students as people to be housed rather than profit margins to be maximized.
College can be, without a doubt, the most vibrant, exciting time of one's life. But it can also be an experience often overshadowed by stress and anxiety. For many students, college is their first experience living somewhere away from home, surrounded by new people in a completely unique dynamic. To make sure that potential stress doesn’t wash away the fun of college life, it’s key for students to prioritize their own mental and physical health.
This empathy drought is corroding the United States at breakneck speed. During this tumultuous time, community and intersectional support are more valuable than ever. Yet, collective indifference is thwarting steps taken toward true liberty and justice for all, dampening even the smallest flames of social progress.
Looking good does not always mean wearing formal or expensive clothing. It can be as simple as styling your hair, wearing clothes that fit well or choosing an outfit that makes you feel comfortable and confident. Small efforts in personal presentation can still have a noticeable impact on how we feel. At the same time, it is important not to place all of our value on appearance. Focusing on how we look should not come at the expense of our character or personal qualities. Instead, caring about our appearance can simply reflect self-respect and confidence.
Campus wide technology and interfaces, meant to make students’ lives easier, have only strengthened the expectation that students (and professors) are always “logged on,” and can be communicated with at any point. The harm is not in the fact that students stay up late to turn in assignments, but in that the line between when students are expected to be productive and when they can relax is fading. The cost of the convenience of not having to turn in a paper homework assignment in class is the loss of separation between student’s academic and personal lives.
Iran deserves freedom from authoritarianism. Its people deserve dignity, self-autonomy and safety. However, real freedom cannot be delivered through imperial ambition. It cannot be engineered by foreign powers who have their own interests at heart.
So if you're in a career identity crisis, being scared not just of failing, but of not becoming the right version of yourself, know that you're not the only one. The fear of waking up one day and hating the career you picked is a threat that hangs above all of us. But what if we looked at our major as the first step in discovering how we think and what we care about?
College is supposed to be a period of transformation. A time when people experiment, question and figure out who they want to become. Yet, when busyness becomes the dominant signal of value, that transformation narrows. Identity gets built around output, character gets measured through capacity and humanity gets filtered through productivity.
In celebrating the men while snidely diminishing the women, the White House showed that even in moments of national pride, gender equality is only embraced when convenient.
Being Chinese is not a trend or a brand that can be defined by a consumer base to which people cherry-pick and customize to their own convenience. Being Chinese is an identity and lived experience marked by traditions and values established far before the emergence of the countries and peoples who seek to exoticize it.
If belonging depends on exclusion, it will always be fragile. If national identity cannot accommodate linguistic and cultural plurality, it does not reflect the country as it exists. Bad Bunny’s halftime show became a question America needs to answer: is expansion a threat, or is it simply the next chapter in a story that has never been singular to begin with?
If we do not take our music listening habits out of the cold, dead hands of an automated algorithm — not to mention whose pockets the dirty hands of major music streaming platforms CEOs are sliding millions of dollars into — Mr. Music-Lover will be an archaic caricature of a passionate past lost to a passionless present.
Children who are too young to be vaccinated, immunocompromised individuals, people who cannot receive vaccines for medical reasons, and scores of others are put at risk by the resulting weakened herd immunity. When people who can get vaccinated choose not to, they endanger those around them. Vaccine refusal isn’t just irresponsible, it’s selfish.
Children who are too young to be vaccinated, immunocompromised individuals, people who cannot receive vaccines for medical reasons, and scores of others are put at risk by the resulting weakened herd immunity. When people who can get vaccinated choose not to, they endanger those around them. Vaccine refusal isn’t just irresponsible, it’s selfish.
Editor’s note: Letters to the Editor and open letters reflect the opinions, concerns and views of University of Wisconsin-Madison students and community, may or may not be accurate and do not reflect the editorial views or opinions of The Daily Cardinal
While “forgive but never forget” seems like a mature response, it often keeps people emotionally stuck. True forgiveness is quieter. It looks like remembering without reliving. It looks like holding boundaries without bitterness. It looks like allowing a chapter to close without needing to reread it every day.
When the economy becomes unstable, immigration enforcement becomes a show of support for citizens. Deportation is sold as an economic solution, but it instead functions more as an emotional fallback. Immigrants become a target for futile American frustration and discourse. This allows political leaders to claim they are protecting workers without addressing why they are struggling in the first place and getting at the root of the issue.
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