Jericho Rajninger

I can’t help but feel as though the end of college is a rather abrupt dislocation from home, not unlike how leaving for UC Berkeley felt four years ago. 

The end of an academic term can feel like one giant, impenetrable puzzle. We hope these stories will help you, too, put some pieces together — whatever that means for you this finals season.

With the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic and an array of other social, political and environmental issues plaguing our world today, the mental health of youth in particular seems acutely at risk.

Linking all of us together is an often contradictory set of emotions about the future — uncertainty, curiosity, stress, excitement.

What terrifies me most as the reality of adulthood grows near is not the choice I made to pursue a life in writing, but rather the notion that it now may be too late to do something different.

We hope this issue helps you discover and strengthen your place on campus, and that the stories inside welcome you home.

I came across this phrase the other day, / reading about the orange-brown haze blanketing the world outside my window

This pandemic has proven to be a black hole of mental energy from which the world, rightfully, cannot escape.

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic, however, there is absolutely no room for our ill-advised, self-centered antics