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The Reflector

Obscure holidays bring light to the heaviest of days

Obscure holidays bring light to the heaviest of days

Rowan Feasel, Staff Writer March 25, 2025

On May 4, 2022, my mom frosted a bundt cake designed to look like the character Sarlacc as I pulled our BB-8 pizza out of the oven in preparation for a Star Wars movie marathon complete with themed food....

Energy Drink 3: gotta get up to get down

Energy Drink 3: gotta get up to get down

John Baladi, Life&Entertainment Editor March 25, 2025

Fifteen months ago, the Reflector published an article I wrote titled "Energy drink reviews: Reign reigns supreme, Bucked Up disappoints." Due to the popularity of that article, this has become a three-part...

Networking class at MSU could boost connections and careers

Networking class at MSU could boost connections and careers

Yash Rebala, Contributing Writer March 25, 2025

Many worries about finding a job after graduation begin while searching for internships during their junior year. As a senior, I, too, experienced this dread last year before securing an internship...

Beyond Honor Code violations: AI's impact on instructors

Beyond Honor Code violations: AI’s impact on instructors

Kallen Zhou, Contributing Writer March 18, 2025

Could Artificial Intelligence (AI) have written this article? Considering the trailblazing work that machine-learning companies have done, it is becoming more difficult to answer that question, and one...

True Crime media can cause desensitization toward violence

True Crime media can cause desensitization toward violence

Haylee Morman, Staff Writer March 18, 2025

When I was in high school, I became somewhat obsessed with true crime stories on YouTube, consuming an almost endless feed unflinchingly. I still watch the occasional video, but my reactions to true crime...

Protesters from Consuming Fire Fellowship preach to students.

Face-off: MSU students allow others to be political

John Baladi, Life&Entertainment Editor March 5, 2025

In 2019, at Mississippi State University’s Colvard Student Union, DailyWire’s Andrew Klavan gave a speech entitled “How to Live a Crap Life: The Deadly Sins of Leftism.” While I do not share all...

Construction Candlelit Vigil: Dorman Hall has character

Construction Candlelit Vigil: Dorman Hall has character

Lucy Hallmark, Opinion Editor March 5, 2025

Dorman Hall is the home of the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences and the Department of Biochemistry, Nutrition and Health Promotion. Or at least it is in name only. The actual Dorman Hall sits —...

Students gather on the MSU Drill Field in response to protesters from Consuming Fire Fellowship.

Face-off: MSU has a muzzled student body

Matthew Reeves, Contributing Writer March 5, 2025

Free speech has become a contentious and widely debated issue in the United States. For the past year, we have seen thousands of students pitching tents, staging sit-ins and marching for miles to protest...

Letter to the editor: Changes by Trump administration impact students

Letter to the editor: Changes by Trump administration impact students

Darren Shoemaker, Ph.D. Candidate February 25, 2025

This is an open letter in response to an email regarding the restructuring and limiting of academic grant funding by the Trump Administration that was sent to Mississippi State University faculty by MSU...

Business cases should be the norm in business classes

Business cases should be the norm in business classes

John Baladi, Life&Entertainment Editor February 25, 2025

In the last five years I have spent studying business administration, now working on my master's degree in the subject, I have always felt that the stigma around business classes could easily be avoided. Since...

Ranking Netflix's Top 10 according to quality, enjoyment

Ranking Netflix’s Top 10 according to quality, enjoyment

Grace Goff, Staff Writer February 18, 2025

Have you ever wondered how Netflix's “Top Ten” movies are ranked among the top 10? I have, so I watched all 10 and rated and ranked them myself, stepping outside of my usual movie preferences for some....

Bid adieu to adieu, no tears for tears, shirk shirk

Bid adieu to adieu, no tears for tears, shirk shirk

Rowan Feasel, Staff Writer February 18, 2025

“Have you played the Wordle today?” I ask my friends and family members this question daily. While I'm not typically competitive when it comes to sports or classes, this word puzzle brings...

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