Though UCR has permitted some classes to be taught in-person this quarter, many students are still receiving their education from behind a screen. Online learning does not come without its challenges, but there are ways to take advantage of the online world we are now reliant on. Here are a few websites that can be helpful when navigating this...
The other day, I was sitting in my living room watching “To All The Boys: P.S. I Still Love You” and thought to myself, “Why are none of these characters wearing masks?” when it hit me. The global pandemic has impacted how I view movies, and more specifically, it has made me wonder, how does one do “normal things”...
Every year before school starts, I find myself stressing out about whether or not I will be able to make friends. I worry now more than ever since I will no longer have the opportunity to meet people in person with classes being online. However, though it may be difficult to make friends in an online classroom and with...
With the school year starting up again, many of us are moving back to Riverside to focus on our classes and other activities. This also means that many of us will be moving back in with our roommates. After being cooped up with our parents for so long, it’s only natural for us to be excited about this change....
My freshman orientation leader was extremely enthusiastic about UCR and at the time, I couldn’t help but agree. Everything about the campus was new and shiny to me and I thought it was genuinely a beautiful place to be. Yet, when I actually started at UCR, I soon came to realize that there were a couple things my orientation...
I came across a few problems after I moved back into my original home. Once I adapted to studying in the silence of my own dorm room (while campus was still open), I ran into the inability to adapt to the environment of my family.
A family of six that resides in a small apartment and a hectic finals week...
Today, I consider myself a journalist. A fledgling journalist for sure, and perhaps not even a great fledgling journalist, but a journalist all the same. Of course, that wasn’t always the case.
Unlike most students interested in a career in journalism, I chose to pursue a bachelor’s degree in psychology. From my earliest middle school days, I told myself that...
Joining The Highlander newspaper has given me a multitude of opportunities and experiences that I could have never even dreamed of coming into college. When I started at UCR in 2016, I didn’t have my mind set on what I wanted to do as a profession. I figured that I would just take a bunch of different classes and...
When I was first looking for colleges to apply to, I remember how impressed I was that UCR had a student newspaper. I was so excited because, frankly, writing for a newspaper seemed like fun. My high school didn’t have a newspaper and I had found myself enjoying the process of writing, investigating and telling stories in my English...
During week zero of my first year, my roommate, other first years living in Aberdeen Inverness and I took a tour around campus. As we made a stop by UNLH, the older students leading the tour emphasized the importance of getting involved on campus and mentioned different organizations we could join. As the group walked toward the HUB, my...