As we start the seventh week of fall semester, many of us feel like we’re drifting. All that drive we had to be more productive and procrastinate less this year is flickering in the face of midterms and the changing weather. Sometimes, it can be hard to pick ourselves up after a bad week. Sometimes, […]
Read More →It’s official: Fall is here. That means it’s finally time to break out the sweaters, boots and Pumpkin Spice Lattes. Besides the gorgeous weather and changing leaves, my favorite thing about fall is definitely the food. There seems to be cinnamon and pumpkin flavored everything this time of year (but I’m not complaining). It may […]
Read More →By Clinton Nguyen, Multimedia Editor (@voxels) This week is mostly about, well, blogging. Feeling meta as heck rn. I. Content Moderation Behind every social media website, there’s an invisible army of content moderators, most of which are outsourced. They serve as the aegis for the digitally uninitiated—your grandma, Aunt Sally, your baby brother—and they’re the […]
Read More →By Clinton Nguyen, Multimedia Editor (@voxels) Hi. I’m late, and that’s okay because I only have 19 hours a day on average to function as a human being doing things other than reading on the ’net, and I apologize in advance if any of this is super old news to you. But QUIXFIX is still […]
Read More →By Clinton Nguyen, Multimedia Editor @voxels Welcome to another week of Quick Fixations, kids. Here are a couple good headscratchers for you from around the web. HOPE THEY REALLY MAKE U THINK I. The Chinese Wall falls Hey, hey, hey did you hear? Vice isn’t hip. Especially if your editorial steps on the big boys’ […]
Read More →By Clinton Nguyen, Multimedia Editor (@voxels) I. Confronting my cyberbully, 13 years later TW: bullying, thoughts of suicide. Imagine, if you will, marking off your calendar days and seeing a reminder to throw yourself off a bridge. Every. Single. Day. Now imagine talking to the person who may have set those reminders for you, 13 […]
Read More →By Clinton Nguyen, Multimedia Editor @voxels Hello, dear readers. For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Clinton, The Daily Free Press’ multimedia editor, the fellow who pushes the happy blue publish button. I usually don’t contribute editorial content, but this is set to change. A little background: Quick Fixations started out on TinyLetter, […]
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