By Mia Cassidy, Beacon Contributor
/ November 20, 2025
During a time when young adults feel increasingly voiceless in the face of degrading national politics, the impulse to share our thoughts and opinions...
By Madalyn Jimiera, Kasteel Well Bureau Chief, News
/ November 19, 2025
Sometimes I feel like I care too much. I cry at everything—from a documentary about the psychology of dogs to a video of a raccoon dropping cotton candy...
By Jake Semmel, Beacon Contributor
/ November 6, 2025
For the past two years, as an Emerson student living in Boston, I’ve relied on teletherapy once a week instead of traveling over 200 miles back to my...
By Josie Arteaga, Deputy Kasteel Well Bureau Chief, Opinion
/ October 29, 2025
It’s officially Halloweekend eve. Soon, as throngs of college students finalize their costumes and prepare official plans for the festivities ahead,...
By Bella Nordman, Kasteel Well Bureau Chief, Opinion
/ October 15, 2025
Trying to be sustainable as a college student is like doing yoga on a moving treadmill: noble, but not practical.
The idea and thought to be sustainably...
According to the National Panhellenic Conference, sororities cultivate a critical support system for women, allowing them to thrive in college while simultaneously...
By Bethany Storey, Beacon Contributor
/ September 24, 2025
If you're chronically online, you may have heard a newly coined term circulating on TikTok and Instagram: the “Gen Z stare.” It refers to a blank or...
By Bella Nordman, Kasteel Well Bureau Chief, Opinion
/ April 23, 2025
Lately, I have been reflecting on my relationship with the internet: From fandoms to reaction videos and subsequently trying to get offline, but I really...
By Bella Nordman, Kasteel Well Bureau Chief, Opinion
/ April 9, 2025
There has always been pressure to be online. I remember first getting Instagram when I was 13 because the YouTubers I watched had it. I wanted to fit into...
By Bella Nordman, Kasteel Well Bureau Chief, Opinion
/ March 26, 2025
Spring break is a time for college students to break free from bending over backwards in the library. So many elements collide over this break—escapism,...
By Bryce Heilmann, Senior Living Arts Reporter
/ March 6, 2025
On a night infamous for cultivating many scandalous headlines, and an awards season chock full of them, the 97th Academy Awards remained relatively mundane.
With...
By Josie Arteaga, Deputy Kasteel Well Bureau Chief, Opinion
/ February 12, 2025
On Valentine’s Day, I was used to receiving roses and chocolates. Even though they were exclusively from my mom, I always appreciated the gesture and...
In writing workshops, I don’t expect perfection, but I do expect to be able to tolerate reading the majority of the stories. In the writing, literature,...