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I'm a senior at University of Houston, and the change over the last four years has been wild. People still think of us as a commuter school where everyone goes home at 5 PM. That's not true anymore, and it's been changing fast. The campus is transforming. New dorms everywhere. New dining halls...

I'm taking three writing-intensive classes this semester and they all have different expectations and I'm losing my mind trying to keep track 😩. My philosophy professor wants super dense paragraphs with like complex sentences that explore every angle. My English professor wants elegant varied...

When I read Tatiana Schlossberg's essay and got to the part about her mother, I literally had to put my phone down and walk away for a bit. Because I've never seen that feeling put into words so perfectly. 😢 Schlossberg writes: "My parents and my brother and sister, too, have been raising my...

Okay, so this might sound a little dramatic, but hear me out. I've grown up my entire life in a family that bleeds burnt orange. Like, my dad cries during the Texas fight song, and we had a Longhorn-shaped cake at my birth. For as long as I can remember, I was supposed to go to UT. It was just...

I'm not gonna pretend I'm a serious, introspective intellectual. My brain runs on TikTok brain rot and inside jokes with my friends. So when I sat down to write my common app essay, everything that came out sounded like I was trying on my dad's suit – it just didn't fit. 😩 It was stiff, formal...

APA, MLA, Chicago—I'm used to those. But company style guides are a whole different beast. We had to analyze one for a project and it was 200 pages of rules about things I've never thought about. When to capitalize job titles. Whether to use "click" or "tap" or "select." How to write numbers...

Professors and TAs, I need your collective wisdom! Grading 50 freshman comp essays is already a slog, and now I have to be a detective on top of it. I don't have time to run every single paper through three different detectors. What are your biggest, fastest red flags? For me, it's often the...

I had a realization the other day that made me laugh out loud in the library (and got me some weird looks, oops 😂). I was stressing over a 4-page philosophy paper that was due in two days. I had zero time and zero motivation. I was about to go buy my usual coping mechanism – a $7 fancy latte and...