To be determined - by Amelia Roessler

A return to family connections

Well, it’s been an eventful weekend for sure. I was fortunate enough that my family wanted to come to the Cities and stay the weekend at the hotel directly across the street from my apartment. My sister, mom, grandma, and godmother showed up Friday afternoon to start the “girls’ weekend.” Only...

Finding ways to use my skills to help others

This past week, I have been learning a lot, and I’m not talking about my classes. What I have found is really nice about working as a reporter for the Minnesota Daily is that I get to meet, talk to, and learn a lot about a variety of different people on campus. For example, I have recently...

Can ChatGPT be held legally responsible?

As school drags on, so do the lectures. This week was special, though, because I had another speaker outside all the usual ones. My media law professor required our class to go to a guest lecture by a Cornell professor who teaches law and has a degree in computer science. His talk was titled “The...

It's not May, but lets talk mental health

Well, it’s finally getting cold out. I enjoy this weather because I get to wear layers, and I love me some layers. What I am discovering is I love the cold, but I don’t like being cold, which is a weird oxymoron, I know. I love the cold because I get to wear layers and I don’t feel like dying...

An insider view of the Marching Classic

This past weekend, I had the lovely experience of being a band host at the Waseca Marching Classic. Being a band host means I am assigned to an out-of-town band; it’s my job to answer questions, lead them where they need to go, and just generally be of help. I was assigned to the Blaine...

I'm curious to know how his room smells

In order to avoid focusing or thinking about homework or things I should be doing, I like to observe things happening around me. The following are a bunch of random things that I have remembered observing in life around me lately. I saw a student talking on a red flip phone coming out of class...

More to Waseca than meets the eye

School–that is, college–starts in a week. I moved in on Monday; walking around campus it has been enlightening to see all the little freshmen with hopeful eyes taking in the big campus. In addition to their wide eyes, the newbies are easily spotted because many of them are wearing matching shirts...

The parachute opened and I turned 20

I have finally turned 20. Two decades. The big two-zero. Wooo. I don’t feel that old. Some days I feel like I’m still too young, as if I should still be in high school. Other days I feel as if I could just be done with college right now and I should start looking for my own place to live with...

Losing the last of my wisdom...teeth

Well, I finally did it. I got my wisdom teeth out. Honestly, I didn’t know if it was going to happen for me. A fair number of my friends got their wisdom teeth out a few years ago, but I was not advised to have mine removed until recently, when the dentist took a full mouth x-ray and could see my...

Dreaming something wild and improbable

As my last full week working at the paper comes to a close, I have been reflecting on my time spent here this summer and my future plans, a daunting thought. My second summer of the paper has been an interesting time as I’ve had a better understanding of things than I did last summer. Thank...