Staff Editorial 4/9: Dining Services caters to students’ needs
College students usually dislike their universities’ on-campus dining options. And University of Miami students are no exception: In the past year alone, students have advertised their disgust for Chartwells food via Tweets from the anonymous @UM_Shartwells handle, as well as through a variety of Chartwells-themed meme graphics that have gone viral across social media platforms....
UM memes a medium for shared student experiences
Not only can you stalk people, keep in touch with friends, post videos and play games, but you can also read memes on Facebook. Not just any memes, but UM memes. College memes parody ideas via images and text. There are various memes on websites like memebase.com and 9gag.com. I love memes and I love...
Jesus, religion should not be equal
There is a video called “Why I Hate Religion But Love Jesus” that has been trending on Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter for several weeks. It has gotten people talking. Some love the video and feel that it hits the nail on the head, while others consider it to be way off. The video is about...
Social media transforms personal branding
I started my own publicity agency in 2003 from my bedroom with watermelon pink walls, where I took on my first client: Myself. The first step in marketing: editing my profile on my AIM account where I painstakingly chose colors and fonts to display my insightful views on life as I knew it, through quotes...
Parking, dining projects aim to improve student life
Student Government (SG) has a list of upcoming projects – including take-out dining, e-Book rentals and new parking garage mirrors – all of which will hopefully improve students’ lives at the University of Miami. Students can take surveys about their interest in the take-out dining and e-Book rental programs on SG’s Facebook page. If implemented,...
Keep your private life out of my life
I remember a friend of mine telling me about her experiences living on campus. Her neighbors couldn’t keep their private time in the middle of the night to themselves. She joked about how she didn’t want a roommate, but these two made it a point to convince her that they should be for 30 minutes (or...
Stop procrastinating, start working
Everyone does it constantly. As much as we enjoy it, we tend to feel pretty bad about ourselves after the fact. Yes, I’m talking about Facebook and Sporcle and StumbleUpon and eating and tweeting and anything else that ultimately boils down to procrastination. We do anything and everything except what we’re supposed to be doing....
Balance is key during digital age
On my flight down to Miami at the beginning of the school year, the light-hearted flight attendant instructed us to shut off all electronic devices for take off: “Turn off your iPods, your iPads, your iPhones, your Blackberries, your i-yi-yis…” We all chuckled at his remark, but perhaps his message was meant for more than...
Facebook profile changing face
In the last two weeks, Facebook has undergone numerous changes, such as the addition of a ticker on the side of the homepage and the option to subscribe to certain friends. Now, the social networking site is announcing its biggest change to date. At the 2011 Facebook F8 conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the...
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