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College students are well known for having terrible mental health. Pets are great for that! According to UW-Platteville rules, one is allowed to have an aquarium up to 10 gallons in their dorm. This means you can have pets! It only takes two shopping trips: one to get the fishy supplies and one to get the fishies. You cannot do these both at once! Your aquarium needs to be set up and chilling with some water conditioner in it for a bit first.    When I say chilling, I do not

My interest in writing really piqued when I was in middle school, and it arose because a good friend of mine began to write about his experiences in our shared outdoor hobbies—hunting, fishing, and trapping —and submit them to magazines for publication. Admittedly, I was surprised when he found success, and he encouraged me to write and try to do the same. Ultimately, I decided to try my hand at writing my first magazine article on a fishing method I’d developed for catching

At the start of 2025, I began to take interest in something that I never thought I would enjoy, the horror genre. At surface level, the horror genre can be seen as mindlessly scary or just as movies filled with blood and guts. I used to look at horror as just being scary with no substance. That’s why I stayed away from the genre for so long. However, I used a certain thought process for myself to get into the horror genre.     At the end of 2024, a video game called Piglet’s

‘Crush’ is a 2004 poetry collection published by Richard Siken, and it’s my favorite piece of art I’ve ever internalized. I struggle to describe accurately or precisely how much I adore this collection because it speaks to me and, evidently, many others in its 20 years of circulation in local libraries and Barnes & Noble’s. As someone who would call herself a fan of reading and writing poetry, I find that often in my own works and those of others it is difficult to convey and