Opinion

By Matthew Gibbons, Staff Writer Trigger Warnings: Mentions of neo-nazism, racism, homophobia Crisps crunching, cans being tossed and cracked open, keyboard keyboard - this is the sound of the pale, unwashed 30-year old virgin dwelling in his mother’s basement, hunched over in front of a computer screen, chugging energy drinks and arguing viciously with strangers on Twitter… This is the prime example of the ‘chronically online’ stereotype. Coined in the 2010s, it refers to people who spend most of their time online and hardly ever leave their room, let alone go outside. Typically characterized as unemployed, socially inept and lacking face-to-face human interactions ‘In Real Life’ (‘IRL’) these ‘chronically online’ people are generally unfamiliar with showers or sunlight…so obvio...

Honey-Rose Dunn, Staff Writer When I feel an old memory rush past me, and see a version of myself that feels more like a character than my younger self, I wonder whether I have become a completely different person. Over the years, our world changes and takes us with it, our bodies grow and age, our beliefs change, and our old memories blur behind the new ones. It’s as if we become new people all together. But, sometimes I feel like it’s impossible to outrun the past versions of myself, as if she haunts my new life and new experiences, as if I am unable to move on from the world she experienced. Perhaps we are not supposed to lose all the versions of ourselves, perhaps we never truly change. You can drop yourself in any part of the world and your scars will still be there, your mind wil...