The Journal

A New Way to Do Small Business

October 3, 2020

Quarantining has shown us new ways to go about our daily life and experience the world: virtual tours, online comic and anime conventions - even online school! Quarantine has managed to push technology to the limits with just...

Please Stand

Sadie Castro, Columnist

September 26, 2020

Getting a job can be difficult. The interviews. The applications. Driving back and forth looking for “help wanted” signs. That in itself is a full-time job. It is exhausting and almost impossible at times, until we get that...

Prices Go Up, Money Goes Down

Sadie Castro, Columnist

September 18, 2020

The price of living is getting more and more expensive, but no one needed to hear it from me. It is becoming more difficult to sustain oneself, let alone with a job that barely even pays minimum wage. To say “barely” would...

The Experience of a Movie

Sadie Castro, Columnist

September 13, 2020

This year I saw Sonic the Hedgehog and it was the last movie I attended in the theaters. That was in February before the whole national pandemic thing, and it was at the AMC near the UIS campus. However, it was not the last mov...

Quarantined with Animal Crossing

Sadie Castro, Columnist

September 5, 2020

The weeks immediately following the Illinois stay-at-home order were, admittedly, some of the hardest. Some of us spent much of the time working on our own personal projects such as cleaning, picking up a new hobby or even getting...