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The Official Student Opinion and Satire Magazine of UTD
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Popping Across the Pacific
The Rise of K-Pop in Response to the Death of American Pop As the year draws to a close, we need to address the seven-membered, brightly colored, tightly choreographed elephant in the room. That, of course, is the K-Pop group BTS, who was nigh inescapable in 2018 — appearing on Ellen and The Tonight Show […]
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Quantum Disruption
There’s a war raging in Silicon Valley right now, and it’s attracting everyone from Google to IBM to Microsoft, along with a flock of ambitious new startups. Despite what you might expect, they’re not fighting over social media, mobile games, or e-commerce; they’re after something downright otherworldly: parallel universes. Despite sounding like the premise of […]
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Impostor Syndrome
You are sitting in the hallway in a particularly uncomfortable office chair. The sturdiness of your business suit that has been sitting in your closet for an entire year is rough against your skin. You grip your résumé as you look around at all the people that are waiting for the same interview. They are […]
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To All The Rom-Coms I’ve Loved Before
Netflix’s original romantic comedy, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, took the internet and all of its fangirls by storm. Though clichéd in parts and still following the admittedly generic rom-com outline, the movie brings to light a message that might be harmful for future films in the genre. For those in need of […]
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7 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Winter Break
You know how sometimes you feel like your break wasn’t long enough? At the end of summer and winter breaks, that feeling of regret begins to seep in. People will lie in bed the night before classes wondering what they could have done differently to be more productive and well rested. It’s horrible to feel […]
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Your Ultimate Black Friday Survival Guide
Six Tips for Surviving the Night The Holidays will be here soon, and everyone is looking forward to some well deserved time off from studying, recording lectures you’ll never listen to again, and losing hours of your life on Instagram wondering how that girl from your 10 a.m. can afford to go to Reykjavík in […]
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The Fetish Judge
Newly-minted Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s close associate Mark Judge has quite the YouTube history. Take a peek behind the curtain… and probably bring a towel. Though we all may have used whatever means at our disposal to block it out of our memories over the past month, Brett Kavanaugh is on the Supreme Court. […]
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The Follicle Chronicles
To All the White Boys I’ve Ever Loved Before, Don’t get too cocky — not everything is about you. I am writing this to you because my grievances have everything and, ultimately, nothing to do with you. I mean, you’re a pretty great place to start, if anything, so I’ll give you that. There’s power […]
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Casper…Is That You? (A Guide to Ghosting)
You’ve been talking to someone on Tinder that you really like for awhile. You think the conversation is going well, but suddenly the other person does not reply. A day goes by. Then two. Then three. Then a week. Then two weeks. “Did they die?” you ask yourself. Finally, you realize you’ve been ghosted. Upon […]
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Why Article 13 Kills Content
Back in September, the EU approved a first draft of The Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, which is somehow even more boring to read than you’d think. Its goal is to set standards for how European nations enforce copyright laws on the internet. Through thorough definition of terms and outlining of procedures, […]
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Harry Potter and the Maelstrom on Twitter
If you aren’t a Potterhead, then you may or may not be aware of the origin of the Fantastic Beasts movies and their connection to the original Harry Potter books/movies. With the newest movie, The Crimes of Grindelwald, coming to theaters this month, the controversies surrounding author J.K. Rowling and her team have spiraled the […]
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Astral Projections
A Look at the Stars with Muthuveera Maraimalai and Laurel Preston Comets, as you make your many orbits around the stars, trips around the sun, rounds through the sky, here’s a friendly reminder that Mercury retrograde will be ruining all of our lives soon. As such, here’s some advice curated for your sign: Mercury Retrograde: […]