THE CMNSU BLOG
2025 In’s and Out’s: Communication Major Edition
I’m here to guide you through all the ins and outs that are gonna make your 2025 school year, whether you're in your first or final year, your best one YET! So without further ado, I present the unofficial, official In’s and Outs for the 2025 school year: Communications Major edition
Horoscopes: New Year Edition
Happy New Year to all of you who read my horoscopes (and nobody else)!
Horoscopes with a New Year twist.
Open with caution.
Horoscopes: Holiday Edition
It’s TIIIIIIIIIIIIME!
Horoscopes with a Holiday twist.
Open with caution.
5 Movies to get you to Christmas Season
Ah, it’s November. The spooky season is over, but the holidays aren’t upon us just yet. Midterms are finally past us, but finals are just around the corner. I’m sure you’ve worked hard this term, so it seems like the perfect time to reward yourself and watch some movies.
Art Never Dies
They say that the art industry is dying, replaced by generated works from artificial intelligence. But…
Escaping Technology: Why You Should Read Books
The Kindle and other digital reading methods have dominated our culture as a technological marvel that revolutionizes reading. I’m here to convince you that reading is one thing better left without the effects of our overly digitalized world.
Horoscopes: Halloween Edition
It’s spooky season!
Horoscopes with a Halloween twist.
Open with caution.
Perfect Blue (1997)
I cannot recommend this movie enough. But maybe don’t watch it before bed.
Reality TV
What is it that draws so many people into this seemingly trashy genre of television?
Horoscopes: September 16-22
Back to school edition.
Horoscopes for the week of September 16-22.
Open with caution.
Popular Culture, Representation, and Ingenuity: Or Why Inside Out 2 Isn’t an Original Take on Anxiety.
Inside Out 2 gave audiences every beat of a classic Pixar film- perhaps its biggest praise comes from its genuine and ground-breaking portrayal of anxiety in a children’s film. As with any piece of popular culture, the question prevails as to whether this ground-breaking representation is truly the first of its kind to be represented, or if it’s just exactly what its cultural category denotes it as: popular.
Life Became a Spectator Sport
It is truly fantastic that no matter where you are, there’s a good chance you’ll be recorded or photographed. You have no control, no say over this at all. The man, six stories up on the wrong side of the balcony, looks down to see a sea of phones. Suicide becomes a vaudeville act.
Uncut Gems
Uncut Gems is The Wolf of Wall Street for gamblers. Kofi reviews an incredibly inspirational movie.
Mediatized Stimuli
All life becomes mediatized, experience now consumable via multistimuli form. An experience is not lived through in these conditions, instead you live a life of a perma-voyeur. Simultaneously hyperstimulated and unsatisfied, two magnetized points through which you cycle through.